Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the first [noun] " 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 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
3 | As a result most contracting in the first year was in the form of unsophisticated block contracts . |
4 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
5 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
6 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
7 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
8 | He had felt no pain , nor had any indication that , even though he appeared fit enough to play in the First Division , he was about to become a victim of coronary problems . |
9 | Mr Van de Velde stresses than any player not fit enough to play in the first round of the Premiership on April 26 will not be considered for the final . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
12 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
13 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
19 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
22 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
23 | Encouraged by the success of the publication , CD collected together other pieces previously published in periodicals but not included in the First Series and Sketches by Boz Second Series was published in one volume by Macrone in 1837 ( but bearing the date 1836 ) , uniform with the previous 2 volumes , and including 10 illustrations ( 12 in the second edition ) by Cruikshank . |
24 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |
25 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
28 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |
29 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
30 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |