Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] in the first 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 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 12 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 13 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 16 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
| 22 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 23 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 24 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 25 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 26 | After a certain point the wants which it is intended to satisfy have to be artificially created in the first place by advertising and salesmanship . |
| 27 | Repeated slips may mean that recovery was never clearly established in the first place or they may be an indication of the beginning of a full-scale relapse . |
| 28 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 29 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 30 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |