Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 2 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 3 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 4 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 5 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 6 | Community care also highlights one of the fundamental flaws of charters — there is little point being able to complain about a service if it simply is not there in the first place . |
| 7 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 8 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 9 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 11 | But when we tol When we told us they said Oh they 'd have come down to match the nearest competitor , and we thought oh why did he quote up there in the first place then . |
| 12 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 13 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 14 | As the benefit money came in we sent a lot of it out to Suzie 's parents — we thought that if we found something we wanted to buy out there and did choose to emigrate , having the money out there in the first place would make it all that much easier . |
| 15 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | But then again , you could n't have predicted they 'd get this far in the first place . |
| 17 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |