Example sentences of "[was/were] not [vb pp] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training . |
| 2 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 3 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 4 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 5 | There were other cases where the name of the rape survivor was not disclosed in the first press report but a few weeks later , the name would suddenly appear in front of several million readers . |