Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [vb pp] in the first " in BNC.

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1 The second round of voting on May 8 allocated most of the 134 seats which had not been decided in the first round [ see p. 38887 ] , and confirmed the electoral victory of supporters of President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani .
2 Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him .
3 As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place .
4 This , of course , is a long-term aim and will not be achieved in the first season .
5 But if firms perceive that a deviation will be followed by renegotiation rather than punishment this means that punishment would never be carried out , and so agreement to collude could not be reached in the first place .
6 Extractive hay or silage crops should not be taken in the first year , although the ley may be topped if necessary .
7 The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad .
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