Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But one thing that the introduction of the original version should have highlighted is how a break-up and subsequent reconstruction of the text is possible in the first place . |
| 2 | That 's wrong in the first place . |
| 3 | The predefinition is manifest in the first place in the planning literature produced by the Shetland Islands Council , specifically the Shetland Structure Plan published in 1976 . |
| 4 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 5 | If circumstances such as time and place are relevant to the question whether the conduct is disorderly in the first place , what sorts of factors should the court ( or the policeman on the spot ) take into account in deciding whether or not the conduct was ‘ reasonable ’ ? |
| 6 | However sophisticated the machinery of ‘ data-processing ’ and costly the enterprise , the outcome is unlikely to be of value if the information collected is spurious in the first place . |
| 7 | They thus occupy a rather special place in the spectrum of infectious human disease , since , without being able to find the germ responsible , it is not only rather difficult to be sure that the disease is present in the first place , but , having given a treatment for which there can be no de finite evidence of efficacy , since no organism has been eliminated , it can be very difficult to tell whether the infection has resolved or even whether the patient is better . |