Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the value of the scholarship and not bother to apply in the first place , but the major scholarship was worth at its maximum a hundred and fifty pounds |
| 2 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 3 | Mr Donovan 's mere financial gain will probably make little difference to him and it is debatable whether his name ‘ has been cleared once and for all ’ as it did not need clearing in the first place . |
| 4 | Well indeed , and er , having got in , I suppose they proceeded to entertain your father with the music he did n't particularly want to hear in the first place ? |
| 5 | Whoever received and processed a buy order would gain both the commission and a client , without having had to prospect in the first place . |
| 6 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 7 | As we do so , we shall keep in mind the fact that these very same ingredients , at least in some rudimentary form , must have arisen spontaneously on the early Earth , otherwise cumulative selection , and therefore life , would never have got started in the first place . |
| 8 | Maybe Ross should never had got married in the first place . |
| 9 | They should be playing the Beatles or the Rolling Stones , and they should n't be getting married in the first place — modern people did n't . |
| 10 | But we do n't need to do any blood tests if you 're fine , you 'll be delighted to hear , having checked in the first place . |
| 11 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 12 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 13 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 14 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 15 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 16 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 17 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 18 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 19 | But crisis — particularly one which puts the USSR 's world position at risk — is something that the West should wish to avoid in the first place . |
| 20 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 21 | Santa Anna lost so much time and so many men in a pyrrhic victory , for which he need never have fought in the first place , that when he finally met the full Texan force under General Sam Houston he was utterly defeated . |
| 22 | I should never have started in the first place . |
| 23 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |
| 24 | Information which places guilt for the patient 's illness on the family might only serve to reinforce their overprotective and critical communication styles , which may have arisen in the first place for just this reason . |
| 25 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 26 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
| 27 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 28 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 29 | Either the individual can not get to sleep in the first place or he wakes frequently during the night . |
| 30 | erm for some reason certain issues do n't seem to have appeared in the first place |