Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors do not ask why the players adhered to and implemented these unnecessary checks in the first place . |
| 2 | The other part is having coherent policies in the first place . |
| 3 | Laws without strong enforcement are words without deeds , and the tragic truth is that courts in both England and the United States have displayed a general unwillingness to mete out harsh punishment to those found guilty of cruelty to animals and an even greater reluctance to render guilty verdicts in the first place . |
| 4 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 5 | Mind you , England should have been home and clear before that , but poor Barnes , the man who had won the Cup final at Twickenham with a last-minute magical goal kick , could not get a goal from eight attempts in the first half . |
| 6 | There had been a total of eight candidates in the first round of voting on March 4 , after an agreement in December 1989 between the various political groupings to end the previous one-party system . |
| 7 | Portsmouth against Swindon … 13 goal Guy Whittingham … takes on 11 goal Craig Maskell … they 're the top scorers in the first division … what a head to head … |
| 8 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 9 | An Indian External Affairs Ministry official said on June 18 that India had agreed to a meeting of Indian and Pakistani foreign secretaries in the first half of July to discuss reducing tension on the border . |
| 10 | Inflation , which fell in the second half of 1989 , rose in some countries in the first half of 1990 , was anticipated to increase further in 1990 due in part to oil price increases . |
| 11 | Each member of each pair contains genes which are different from those of the other member , since the genes have been " handed on " from different parents in the first place . |
| 12 | Smith , opening the innings , made 74 from only 53 deliveries in the first hour of the day , striking two sixes and 13 fours , before retiring to give someone else some practice . |
| 13 | Dave Lewis , a local authority planner and then chairman of the Cornwall Anti-Nuclear Alliance , says it is still somewhat of a mystery why the CEGB chose such apparently unpromising sites in the first place . |
| 14 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 15 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 16 | Philip Simmons , their only World Cup century-maker , added two more the only times he batted , smashing five sixes and 12 fours in 122 off 113 balls in the first match and two sixes and 10 fours in 104 off 139 balls in the third . |
| 17 | A common factor in the two studies concerning assessment by non-medically qualified staff is that the social workers in the first study and the nurses in the second had a special interest in dealing with attempted suicide patients . |
| 18 | This is clearly brought out by Maggi Darling , who has been successful in classifying the wares of different legions in the first century from the excavations at Gloucester , Usk and Wroxeter , where , in all three cases , there is a significant absence of black burnished wares . |
| 19 | Edwards , a 26-year-old medical scientist , jumped 17.26 metres in the first round to move to third place on the world outdoor rankings for 1992 , behind Frank Rutherford of the Bahamas ( 17.41 metres ) and German Ralf Jaros ( 17.28 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ We posed them quite a few threats in the first half , ’ said Graham Taylor , while conceding the second belonged to Liverpool . |
| 21 | Financially troubled Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its PA-RISC-based fault tolerant machines back on the tracks . |
| 22 | Financially troubled Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its Precision Architecture RISC-based fault-tolerant machines back on the tracks : Hewlett has hitherto seemed doubtful about further involvement . |
| 23 | The winter of 1962/63 caused marked fluctuations in the first period . |
| 24 | Section headings which were found only in some chapters in the first edition have been extended through each chapter . |
| 25 | The report said army intelligence officers started spying on black Americans out of fears they were susceptible to being influenced by German agents in the First World War , then by Communist and Japanese agents and opponents of the Vietnam War . |
| 26 | With the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund , the National Portrait Gallery has bought three distinguished portraits of important British sitters in the first half of this year : Robert Walker 's ‘ John Evelyn ’ of 1648 shows the famous diarist with his hand resting upon a skull and it was painted as a wedding portrait for his wife , to accompany a treatise on matrimony . |
| 27 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 28 | Miroslav Sladek , the leader of the Republicans and the only candidate , won a total of 58 out of 300 votes in the first poll and 60 in the second poll . |
| 29 | In a report published on January 1990 , the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basel noted that banks in the major industrialized countries had significantly increased lending to east European countries in the first half of 1989 . |
| 30 | As a control , sections were incubated with phosphate buffered saline instead of the primary monoclonal antibodies in the first step . |