Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
2 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
3 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
4 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
5 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
6 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
7 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
8 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
9 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
10 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
11 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
12 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
13 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
14 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
15 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
16 | ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
17 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
18 | The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too ! |
19 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
20 | Researchers now believe the phenolic flavonoids , by acting as anti-oxidants , prevent the damaging fat building up in the first place . |
21 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
22 | Something with four solid walls the wo n't blow down in the first puff of wolf 's breath . |
23 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
24 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
25 | In conclusion , tutors are again reminded of their great responsibilities for achieving the high aims set out in the first paragraph . |
26 | In the Plate final — for teams knocked out in the first round of the Chairman 's Cup — Fife beat Perth 4–2 . |
27 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
28 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
29 | Alban Berg 's Piano Sonata Op. 1 comprises a single long movement ; it is almost continuously melodic , yet virtually the whole piece seems to be derived from rhythmic cells given out in the first phrase : Notice how cells a and c are really the same , c being an augmentation of a . |
30 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |