Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 2 | A number of missions owe their existence to the initiative and financial support given in the first place by the Association . |
| 3 | And we now have fifty agents of different nationalities , all highly trained in the skills taught at the special place . ’ |
| 4 | A simple grab rail placed in the correct place can make a considerable difference to how you cope , especially with the bath or toilet . |
| 5 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 6 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 7 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 8 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 9 | On 5 April , a set of fissures opened in the same place , and showers of incandescent fragments of lava were ejected . |
| 10 | Taking enforcement action requires in the first place techniques to bring deviance to light . |
| 11 | It is brought out clearly , and even contrasted with the Hebrew view , in the Epistle to the Hebrews , 9 : 25–6 : ‘ Nor yet that he should offer himself often , as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with the blood of others ; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world ; but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , spotlights need to be positioned so that light falls in the right place . |
| 14 | Even though the local advantages for power and raw materials have gone , the industry remains in the same place . |
| 15 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |
| 16 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
| 17 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
| 18 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
| 19 | Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation . |
| 20 | Ultimately the test to be applied is that of the magistrates , and they may also take into account such factors as the likelihood that disorder might ensue as a result of what the defendants were doing , and the reasons prompting the constable to intervene in the first place . |
| 21 | It was always going to be a tough qualifying group with Italy , Portugal and Scotland fighting for the two places . |
| 22 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 23 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 24 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 25 | Contrary to some of the comments of Opposition Members , the Opposition amendment made in the other place this week makes no difference to our determination to encourage compulsory competitive tendering in the interests of the taxpayer . |
| 26 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 27 | Who wanted the job done in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | The first and second layer spacing is obtained similarly from α c measured along directions for which the first and second layer atoms lie in the same place . |
| 29 | She feels that the experience of being a childminder helped her to get the job and certainly gave her the confidence to apply in the first place . |
| 30 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |