Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [vb infin] in the first " in BNC.
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1 | The onus of making that interpersonal connection between their differing maps of the mind must rest in the first place with the staff , not with the student . |
2 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
3 | The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions . |
4 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
5 | The Soviets have announced that one of the two Indian cosmonauts in training at Star City since the autumn will fly in the first half of 1984 . |
6 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
7 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |