Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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1 | Relatively cheap methods of testing local ground conditions which have been researched by geomorphologists can act as useful warnings to engineers as to whether they are risking the kind of problems which now make the Trannon scheme , with hindsight , a questionable one to have undertaken in the first place . |
2 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
3 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
4 | erm for some reason certain issues do n't seem to have appeared in the first place |
5 | Also , as a result of their greater longevity , elderly women are more than twice as likely as men to be widowed and , as a consequence of this and the lower propensity of the current generation ( if not succeeding ones ) to have married in the first place , they are three times as likely to be living alone . |