Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
| 21 | The events discredited the Government and fuelled the discontent that had created the civil rights movement in the first place . |
| 22 | But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You know what caused his kidney problem in the first place . |
| 27 | But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’ |
| 28 | With a four-inch diameter pipe , you would have to restrict the water flow considerably to draw air down the venturi pipe , which would defeat the object of having the wide bore pipe in the first place : that is , to transfer a large volume of water with the minimum disturbance . |
| 29 | So tell me Mrs how did you come to with Friends Provident in the first place ? |
| 30 | Erm and proceeding to business you know tell me why did you come to Friends Provident in the first place ? |