Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it was the Budapest public who demanded the removal of the eye-sores in the first place . |
| 2 | British producers have little choice but to go for the home market , because the lion share of their budgets comes from the B B C , I T V or Channel Four who commission the programmes in the first place . |
| 3 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 4 | Because tranquillisers simply mask symptoms rather than provide a cure , you may need to seek help to deal with the problem which caused you to need the tablets in the first place . |
| 5 | The improved performance had outweighed the setbacks in the first half of the financial year to March 31 . |
| 6 | The values in the first column of P 3 ( 0.58 and 0.44 ) are closer together than the corresponding values in the matrix P 2 ( 0.65 and 0.37 ) and much closer than the values in column one of matrix P ( 0.77 and 0.24 ) . |
| 7 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 8 | To get to the Bungles in the first place needs a certain pioneering spirit as it involves a seven-hour drive from Kununurra , and the last three are over rough terrain that can be tackled only by four-wheel-drive vehicles . |
| 9 | There was a strong diagonal wind in favour of the Borderers in the first half and they turned round 12-3 ahead , although territorially the game was more even . |
| 10 | The first point to note , therefore , is that many of the disruptions in the first evacuation scheme , which produced so much distress in the children ( resulting , in particular , in bed-wetting ) were primarily the result of poor civil defence planning . |
| 11 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 12 | In the early thirteenth century Gerald of Wales had advocated the combined use of archers and knights ; it was precisely this combination which , as shown above , was to be employed to such good effect in defensive positions against the Scots in the first half of the fourteenth century , before being used , in broadly similar conditions , against the French at Crécy , Poitiers and , later , at Agincourt . |
| 13 | ‘ The lines in the first act were very sloppy this evening . |
| 14 | It is the Holy Spirit who so signally lays his mark of blessing upon the preaching of the good news to those untouchables ( from the traditional Jewish viewpoint ) the Samaritans in the first half of Acts chapter 8 , and the eunuch in the second part of that chapter . |
| 15 | Dreams of Arab nationalism raised by the Arab revolt against the Ottomans in the First World War , and then turned instead into the reality of separate states , clearly supervised by the two major European victors . |
| 16 | Mozart 's perception and understanding of the female psyche is especially illuminating in this piece and Jane Leslie MacKenzie 's sad and tense characterisation of the Countess was extremely plausible , if lacking in the real sense of fun which the lady must have had in order to be drawn into the intrigues in the first place . |
| 17 | And coming up on the rails in the first division are Oxford United . |
| 18 | How can nuclear weapons possibly be used except to destroy many lives — the lives of those on whom they are targeted and of those who fired the weapons in the first place ? |
| 19 | So that you 're , in other words you either , you 're , by having the money back in your hand you are then restored to the position you were in before you bought the goods in the first place . |
| 20 | The evil ‘ Mother ’ is now transferred to the opposite side and is the Mother of all the Aliens , hinted at by the eggs in the first film . |
| 21 | According to Yoichiro Yoda , of the AI Sales Section of Nichimen Data , the systems will be targeted initially at research and development environments , and the company hopes to sell 50 to 60 of the machines in the first year . |
| 22 | Appearances : Tudor Owen for the officers in the first case , Edmund Lawson QC and Michael Egan for Mr Cherry , all instructed by Russell Jones & Walker ; Ann Goddard QC with Nicholas Ainley in the first case , and with Oliver Sells in the Cherry case , all instructed by the DPP ; James Holdsworth instructed by the Treasury Solicitor for both magistrates . |
| 23 | Other examples from his list of claimed sense-qualifiers turn out to belong , instead , to a class of peculiarly restrictive adjectives which we discuss elsewhere ( Chapter 7 and also Ferris , in preparation ) : ( 31 ) their main faults our prime suspect he was named first citizen These adjectives , unlike most , are inherently restrictive , and select the particular entity to be identified by a speaker out of an already assumed body of entities ; thus the faults in the first example are not main faults in any general sense , as would be required if they were to be sense-qualifiers ; they are those that come out in front , relative to the background group of all their faults , relevant on the particular occasion where the expression is used . |
| 24 | The second layer consists of just one node , and its inputs are the outputs of all the nodes in the first layer . |
| 25 | But the Americans , apart from the fact that they probably provided the guns in the first place , paid out $1m to persuade people to hand them in . |
| 26 | Still , the trip might buy him credit with the boss , unless he thought Cormack was a sycophantic idiot offering to take the things in the first place , which was equally likely . |
| 27 | It was found that 599 ( 56 per cent ) were classifiable as ‘ new cases ’ , that is , as not being known to any of the agencies in the first survey , and having no known first contact date with an agency prior to April 1985 . |
| 28 | This kind of ‘ motivational congruence between practitioners and clients ’ was generally missing from the studies in the first wave of effectiveness research , they suggest ( p. 338 ) . |
| 29 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | The questions in the first section concerned the Oxfordshire scheme specifically . |