Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place .
2 A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ?
3 All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place .
4 The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place .
5 Meanwhile , it looks likely that most of the official aid to the repatriation process will be channelled through Guatemalan government agencies , given to the very people responsible for the refugee crisis in the first place .
6 ‘ Nothing unusual really , although of course it 's not usual to get yourself smashed up in a car accident in the first place .
7 But perhaps quite not so funny was why Stewart was fielding on the deep square-leg boundary in the first place during England 's three-wicket defeat .
8 You know , if , particularly so , if you 're only on a subsistence wage in the first place .
9 " But why did you run away from the hunting camp in the first place ? "
10 Perhaps more importantly , in the search process the searcher may need to retrieve a wider range of documents in order to make a relevance judgement in the first place .
11 On the other hand to put the whole blame on Frodo would seem ( to use a distinctively English ethical term ) ‘ unfair ’ ; if he had been an entirely wicked person he would never have reached the Sammath Naur in the first place .
12 Pressure on MAFF to extend the LFA boundary in the first place came from the farming lobby .
13 This , after all , is why we have the Maastricht treaty in the first place .
14 Why did the United States not leave it to Scotland Yard in the first place ?
15 West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) .
16 For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place .
17 The paradox is , of course , that were this groundwork to be done there would be much less need for additional classroom support in the first place !
18 It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch .
19 Of course he was not excluding totally the role of natural selection in determining antler size : it would be natural selection , after all , that primarily determined body size in the first place .
20 Have you fallen into any obvious traps : failing to make a proper specification of the job requirements in the first place ; not having a really clear picture of the ideal candidate in your mind ; being swayed by an attractive and forceful personality ; doing more talking than listening ; looking for people with your own characteristics ; appointing someone who lacks some of the points you had decided were essential ; choosing the best of the bunch instead of rethinking ; rushing the interviews in circumstances which do not allow a proper conversation ?
21 In the official view , the use of the Swiss timer pointed clearly to Libya , not only because it had been supplied to its security agency in the first place , but because the PFLP — GC favoured a barometric-pressure triggering system for its Toshiba bombs .
22 Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ?
23 And this was , this , that , that would n't have entered into that brief but my argument was that , you know everybody would be much happier if there was less rubbish to put in the landfill sites in the first place .
24 The events discredited the Government and fuelled the discontent that had created the civil rights movement in the first place .
25 But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place .
26 They 're changing it to more exams I mean , it changes to G C S E in the first place to get rid of having
27 Some of the Champagne houses which make a point of declaring they never use vins de taille in their own products have purchased ready-made Champagnes from the very houses to which they sold their vins de taille in the first place .
28 Why did saving collapse in the first place ?
29 These arguments do not carry complete conviction , since the requirement of the D.P.P. 's consent would preclude private prosecution , and consistency was one of the aims behind the establishment of the Crown Prosecution Service in the first place .
30 Why do you think he had those belief structures in the first place ? ’
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