Example sentences of "[adj] in the [num ord] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we 've made perfectly clear in the last discussion we 've just had , no final decisions on the implementation of any variations will be taken until Council meets on the twenty fifth of February . |
| 2 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 3 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 4 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 5 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
| 6 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 7 | A few people were already astir in the first village they passed through , and when they reached the piazza in Pontino higher up a huddled group stood within the light and warmth of the doorway of the Bar Italia waiting for the first bus down to Florence . |