Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in the first [noun sg] " 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 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 3 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 4 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 7 | The authors of the remarkable study quoted so extensively in the first part of this chapter themselves point out that |
| 8 | well why did she come and live down here in the first place ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Golding 's Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ) is in the third person , though like Defoe 's most famous novel it is about an island marooning ; but Rites of Passage ( 1980 ) — the first of the Tarpaulin trilogy — is a memoir-novel , composed not just in the first person but in a pastiche of the English of the Napoleonic wars , especially in its sea-terms — a sort of ‘ sub-Jane Austen language ’ , as he has breezily put it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 13 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 14 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 15 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | " I was thinking how little I know of you , and wondering how and why you turned up here in the first place . " |
| 19 | Well , up twice in the first day er , sorry , Bernie , Lancashire region moving motion three seventy . |
| 20 | President , conference , as I say , up twice in the first day it 's a cracking conference that starts with motion three seventy and works backwards to number one it 's better than Thunderbirds really . |
| 21 | And we were the ones who put them up there in the first place . |
| 22 | ‘ He should n't have put his finger up there in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But what intrigues us even more is how the hell it got up there in the first place . |
| 25 | up there in the first place without anything . |
| 26 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 27 | The various government schemes designed to assist labour transfers ( Johnson and Salt , 1980 ) have traditionally made an extremely limited contribution to migration and were cut back further in the first half of the 1980s . |
| 28 | Team one they want to put out more in the first division and , I could not be party to that team one and it was an atrocity to use such terminology . |
| 29 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 30 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |