Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | Little knock on the right place … ’ |
| 3 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 5 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 6 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 7 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 8 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 9 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 10 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 11 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 12 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 13 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 14 | The meaning of middle-class friendship is not given by the original place of meeting but by the individuality of the people concerned who can now interact in any situation . |
| 15 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 16 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 17 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 18 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 19 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 20 | The instruments already used for the special place exam were the easiest to adopt , and existing eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds took the exam for reallocation . |
| 21 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 22 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 23 | When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training . |
| 24 | The new university was not created in the obvious place — Magee College , Londonderry . |
| 25 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | All atoms with a particular speed thus deposit in the same place . |
| 27 | They are nearly always the same people and they nearly always sit in the same places . |
| 28 | Her car was still parked in the same place , already it looked dusty and unused . |
| 29 | The reflected waves interfere with the incoming waves to produce a pattern of standing waves or clapotis , the crests of which always appear in the same places ( Fig. 8. 1A ) . |
| 30 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |