Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , it is obviously preferable to avoid conflict in the first place by integrating traffic with the urban framework . |
| 4 | For the majority of young mothers I talked to , it had been a mutual decision to have sex in the first place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Infanticide is a defence to murder , but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place . |
| 7 | And yet … is it all that easy to subtract language in the first place ? |
| 8 | Better , though , to prevent injury in the first place . |