Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got an idea they 're a Cornish family and that 's why the old lady was here in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Why do you think the body was there in the first place ? |
| 3 | So , establishment for staphylococcusorius is often not an important feature because in the majority of infections we 're talking about an endogenous infection , the organism was there in the first place . |
| 4 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 5 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 6 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 7 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |