Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] in the first place " 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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 ? |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
13 | In fact , if we all had sex as often as we had surveys we would n't have time to answer the surveys in the first place . |
14 | However , alongside these measures , specifically directed towards the alleviation of symptoms , it is important to identify and change some of the external stresses that have caused the problems in the first place . |
15 | People have encroached on the habitat , they have removed the predators or they have introduced the herbivores in the first place . |
16 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
17 | When we consider the essential role of susceptibility it becomes plain that the people who caught a cold in the bus were ‘ ill ’ before they ever stepped onto it , for if they had been healthy they would never have picked up the bugs in the first place . |
18 | When the kelp industry collapsed , the landlords , who had themselves set up the crofts in the first place , tried actively to get rid of them . |
19 | He was pretty confident about his ability to get into the rooms in the first place , Loretta noted . |
20 | The justices in the first place wrongly , on the advice of their clerk , declined to consider witness statements or such psychiatric report as were available . |
21 | He says they 're all getting on so well they ca n't understand why the politicians started the wars in the first place . |
22 | Why did they move the arms in the first place ? |
23 | We were the ones who exported the slaves in the first place , and now the white man is being asked back to restore the castles . ’ |
24 | Do you think the danger in positive discrimination is that er it 's implying that women ca n't compete on equal terms with the men in the first place ? |
25 | It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox . |
26 | It had been his job to grow all the flowers in the first place , and they all had to be at their best on this particular auspicious day in June . |
27 | He then explained why he had sent Daisy and myself the flowers in the first place . |
28 | Unless we take the cuts on board , it 's gon na be a waste of time discussing the possibilities of the amalgamations in the first place . |
29 | The only alternative would be to require the new unitary councils to club together to carry out this and other strategic functions , but that begs the question : Why abolish the counties in the first place , only to recreate them in a less accountable form ? |
30 | ‘ The Services in the first place are there for fast , efficient and well-trained action in defence . |