Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 2 | If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim . |
| 3 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
| 4 | She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt . |
| 5 | And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding … |
| 6 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 7 | I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place . |
| 8 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 9 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 11 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |
| 12 | The housewife has to get the washing there in the first place , she has to unload it , sort it , sit and watch it wash and dry ( or dash out to shop in the interim ) and then pack it all up again . |
| 13 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 14 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 15 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 16 | And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | To think about this , we now have to relax one of the restrictions that I built into the computer game : we shall end by seeing why I built that restriction in in the first place . |
| 18 | A glance at the map of Ireland immediately raises the question ‘ Why was the plant there in the first place ? ’ |