Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he read the remarks in the first edition , the Lord of the Isles wrote angrily to Boswell ; a duel might have been fought had Boswell not agreed to edit out offending passages next time around . |
| 2 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 3 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
| 4 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
| 5 | Actresses could see the faces in the first row . |
| 6 | The Bladerunner Rink in Milton Keynes was bubbling with excitement as the Kings faced the Wildcats in the first leg of this semi-final battle … and what a start … |
| 7 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 8 | How can nuclear weapons possibly be used except to destroy many lives — the lives of those on whom they are targeted and of those who fired the weapons in the first place ? |
| 9 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 10 | Why did they move the arms in the first place ? |
| 11 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 12 | With players like Stephen Martin , Kenny Morris , Billy McConnell , Alan Roper , Geoff Clarke , Stephen Smyrl and Martin Deery all sidelined for various reasons , it seemed that Holywood would n't seriously test the visitors in the first of their three weekend games against leading Ulster opposition . |
| 13 | He says they 're all getting on so well they ca n't understand why the politicians started the wars in the first place . |
| 14 | People have encroached on the habitat , they have removed the predators or they have introduced the herbivores in the first place . |
| 15 | The company have stolen the paths in the first place . |
| 16 | The result is to attribute the laws in the first case to Constantine , in the second to Constantius II . |
| 17 | However , alongside these measures , specifically directed towards the alleviation of symptoms , it is important to identify and change some of the external stresses that have caused the problems in the first place . |
| 18 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 19 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place . |
| 21 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 22 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 23 | We were the ones who exported the slaves in the first place , and now the white man is being asked back to restore the castles . ’ |
| 24 | Because tranquillisers simply mask symptoms rather than provide a cure , you may need to seek help to deal with the problem which caused you to need the tablets in the first place . |
| 25 | Still , the trip might buy him credit with the boss , unless he thought Cormack was a sycophantic idiot offering to take the things in the first place , which was equally likely . |
| 26 | It is the consort for which Morley and Rosseter published their Lessons and which supports the voices in the first seventeen of Sir William Leighton 's Teares or Lamentacions of a Sorrowfull Soule ( 1614 ) . |
| 27 | The improved performance had outweighed the setbacks in the first half of the financial year to March 31 . |