Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 2 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 3 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
| 4 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 5 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 6 | But Lisa 's mother points out that it 's unusual for people with Downs Syndrome to be given a chance to prove themselves in the first place : |
| 7 | It 's been over a year since Russell kept wicket for his country , and even the England selectors now agree it was a mistake to drop him in the first place . |
| 8 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no doubt I had chances to nail it in the last set , but you 've got to hand it to Dennis . |
| 10 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 11 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |
| 12 | The commission now has the task of finding another country to take him in the next five days , and it is not optimistic . |
| 13 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |