Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 4 | So I must not jump at the first chance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Energy saving does not date from the first oil crisis . |
| 7 | She could almost see him searching for another string of quips if Jessica would not thaw to the first attempt . |
| 8 | ‘ No , no ; I think we will just stick to the first choice . |
| 9 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 10 | The interface does not terminate on the first error but carries out all checks . |
| 11 | Although the royalty may apply to any ‘ resale ’ , it is anticipated that it would not apply to the first sale by a gallery of a contemporary artist . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) associated himself with the sentence : ’ I 'll be surprised if budget holding does not collapse in the first year . ’ |
| 13 | Searching may thus cease at the first level or spread down and out , through the analysis of the primitives or entity geometry , into a fine check of a region of local geometry . |
| 14 | For most months I have included titles that I think are worth ‘ having a go ’ with , although they may not figure in the first rank . |
| 15 | There 's a further point that the effects of the policy may not strike in the first generation anyway , it may be long-term before er equalization of property has the effect and other things so these people might , might vote in their own class interest against the interest of future generations . |
| 16 | La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour . |
| 17 | If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | The process of expansion which the press went through in the late 19th century did not continue beyond the First World War . |
| 19 | Does it not say in the first Sura of the Yasa that the Kha-Khan is above all the servant of his people ? ’ |
| 20 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 21 | You will quickly discover on the first launch , if otherwise . |
| 22 | Turning over the free endpaper to the next double page , we shall usually arrive at the first appearance of print , unless the publisher has been very free with his endpapers and given us some blanks . |
| 23 | Nouns require a different rule : if the second syllable contains a short vowel the stress will usually come on the first syllable . |
| 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 | Any piece of computer equipment which has to be fitted to some other equipment , such as a replacement " card " ( printed circuit board containing integrated circuits ) which has to be a certain shape , or have a certain type of connector , in order to fit into a computer will also fall into the first part of the exception . |
| 26 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 27 | In the all ticket days you could often wait for the first coach from Leeds to turn up and they would have 20+ tickets for us poor souls who could nt get one ! ! |
| 28 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 29 | For example , supposing you erm , this , this , this was used principally in child analysis , which did n't exist before the First World War , it was developed afterwards . |
| 30 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |