Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 2 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 3 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 4 | To try and reduce the potential for stress to build up in the first place . |
| 5 | It was also based on the even worse assumption that the actual level of income support in April 1990 was sufficient for people to live on in the first place . |