Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was n't that partly the reason why she had agreed to see André in the first place ? |
| 2 | Their ability to attract custom in the first place relies heavily on ( a ) comprehensive , colourful and well-produced catalogues , and ( b ) the use of part-time agents , usually housewives , working on a commission basis . |
| 3 | Just as project schools may have specified objectives in their proposals in order to win a grant , so the initiators of the project may themselves have chosen to word the project aims in a particular way in order to win funding in the first place . |
| 4 | However , it is obviously preferable to avoid conflict in the first place by integrating traffic with the urban framework . |
| 5 | In a safety initiative designed to reduce accidents in the home , the Kitchen Specialists Association ( KSA ) has launched a new booklet — Greater Safety in the Kitchen — which highlights some of the more common causes of accidents in the home and offers advice on how to avoid mishaps in the first place . |
| 6 | Others had n't bothered to buy tickets in the first place . |
| 7 | Terrapins have been left here and in similar ponds around the country by bored pet owners for years , but the numbers have been growing thanks to children who have tired of the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle craze that led them to buy terrapins in the first place . |
| 8 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 9 | She remembered the fights she had had to keep Eve in the first place , when so many other solutions were being offered . |
| 10 | For the majority of young mothers I talked to , it had been a mutual decision to have sex in the first place . |
| 11 | The more fruitful course is not to promise to undertake liability in the first place ( to the extent that the law permits this ) rather than to make promises and exclude liability for their subsequent breach . |
| 12 | Infanticide is a defence to murder , but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place . |
| 13 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 14 | How the hell do such totally unimaginative , unoriginal idiots get to become architects in the first place ? |
| 15 | And yet … is it all that easy to subtract language in the first place ? |
| 16 | It is , of course , a matter for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House to make recommendations in the first place . |
| 17 | Better , though , to prevent injury in the first place . |