Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 2 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 3 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 4 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 5 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 6 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 7 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 8 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 9 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 10 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 11 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 12 | In Western Europe the idea of attack by columns in close formation seems to have been put forward for the first time by the Chevalier de Folard in his Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Guerre ( 1724 ) . |
| 13 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 14 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |