Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first place [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 2 | When a commentary on Michael Rutter 's Fifteen Thousand Hours was formulated by Tizard and others ( 1980 ) it acknowledged in the first place that in the report an impressive base of data supported " an architecture in which many common sense perceptions about schools were co-ordinated " ( Tizard et al. |
| 3 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 4 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 5 | It must be recalled in the first place that in Reg. v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , Ex parte Agegate Ltd . |
| 6 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 7 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 8 | It must be observed in the first place that , as Community law stands at present , competence to determine the conditions for the registration of vessels is vested in the member states . |
| 9 | But Forest , who only let Walker go in the first place because he had a release clause in his contract , will also be in the hunt . |
| 10 | The second view would point to the fact that in reality it is the Prime Minister who , in setting the agenda for Cabinet discussion , decides what is to be discussed in the first place and consequently has power . |
| 11 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 12 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 13 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 14 | As regards the condition relating to the place of operation , direction and control of the vessel , the applicants in the main proceedings stated in the first place that the flag state might legitimately require some measure of onshore representation in order to ensure that the authorities of that state had some method of tracing the responsibility of the operator . |
| 15 | Sylvia 's problem had arisen in the first place because of the negative situation imprinted on her subconscious memory when her mother lay unconscious in the darkness of the air raid shelter . |
| 16 | The stories have arisen in the first place because cannibalism is a fairly standardized imaginary attribute of the bestial " others " , not just among Europeans but in the world at large . |
| 17 | Now that you have a clear idea of what regression therapy involves , it is time to look at the sort of problems that cause people to need such therapy — why and how such problems have arisen in the first place and how they can limit people 's lives and potential . |
| 18 | Almost thought when she , when it was when it was erm er mentioned in the first place that she was going to do it |
| 19 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 20 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 21 | Repeated slips may mean that recovery was never clearly established in the first place or they may be an indication of the beginning of a full-scale relapse . |
| 22 | I also wish to thank the hon. Member for Glasgow , Shettleston ( Mr. Marshall ) who suggested in the first place that the Bill should apply to Scotland as well as to England and Wales . |