Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.

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1 Those things which confer privilege ( quality shops , education , flats and health care ) are acquired through privilege in the first place ; they can not be had for money .
2 And er I 've already referred to a byproduct of over-provision that sites are then moved on to sh car showrooms and erm supermarkets which are needs which or demands which would probably not have justified the allocation of the land for industry in the first place but once the land is allocated to industry it seems to be thought that no harm would be done by allocating those to something else .
3 Clearly that would require a further erm sixteen hectares to be found compared to the hundred and forty five because the hundred and forty five did include an allowance for flexibility in the first place ?
4 It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place .
5 And er that 's and then of course and then of course in the other place where they used to do it , they used to just pull these ladders out and these there nets was all folded up and everything ready to do away abroad or anywhere you know .
6 ‘ A share is the interest of a shareholder in the company measured by a sum of money , for the purpose of liability in the first place , and of interest in the second , but also consisting of a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with [ section 14 ] .
7 The fact that it is actually a bit of wood is not important ; what is important is the function , which can be carried out most conveniently by a bit of wood in the right place .
8 So a kingfisher experimentally required to dive into oil might starve to death , like newborn chicks provided with distorting goggles that shift the light five degrees to the right , who never learn to peck for grains of corn in the right place ( Hess 1956 ) .
9 It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created .
10 We go in search of the Editori del Grifo , a young team of publishers said to have moved from Rome back home to Montepulciano as a vote of confidence in the old place ; they have moved again , however , and we have run out of the steam needed to look for their new office .
11 The empty rooms echoed and there was an air of desolation about the whole place .
12 In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us .
13 I can not understand why we were issued with a single piece of plastic in the first place , unless it was to save you money , since there was certainly no reduction for us .
14 Prevention becomes genetic screening or ’ gene therapy ’ instead of the actual prevention of ill-health in the first place : good primary health care , cleaning the environment of reproductive health hazards ( radiation contamination etc. ) , adequate nutrition and housing , attention to dangerous prescription drugs ( a lesson learned from thalidomide ) , and so on .
15 Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’
16 of silence to the unmarked place ,
17 Clearly much will depend on the availability of information in the first place .
18 And there is the question of the relevance of the trading of information in the first place .
19 More moderate temperaments , to whom the patterning seemed a sort of death in the first place , are apt to remain stubbornly cheerful .
20 It is the possibility of such many-one codings that justifies a multilevel model of language in the first place .
21 Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution .
22 Men and books I see through Nature in the first place
23 As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him .
24 How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ?
25 Something like it is well-nigh inevitable , once the fundamental ingredients of cumulative selection — replication , error and power — have come into existence in the first place .
26 But another kind of question is how the complicated thing came into existence in the first place .
27 But first , Pam , how did you get into physics in the first place ?
28 This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place .
29 Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place .
30 Is that is that o o one of the reasons that you went into business in the first place ?
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