Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] in the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 2 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
| 3 | The real question is why the scalper 's services are needed in the first place . |
| 4 | Human existence , for Marx and Engels , occurs in terms of people 's concepts , which are incorporated in their mode of life and their subjective experience , but it is from man 's interaction with nature and from the history of this interaction that these ideas , beliefs , and values are created in the first place . |
| 5 | Other competition matters are handled in the first place by the Office of Fair Trading , which can , under the Competition Act , seek undertakings from firms to desist from certain anticompetitive practices . |
| 6 | Departments are established in the first place by Act of Congress and they remain subject to Congressional oversight . |