Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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1 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
2 | A further question may have arisen ; why is the fertile soil or the susceptibility present in the first place ? |
3 | All this supposes that the persons mentioned want to go on the search trek in the first place . |
4 | The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place . |
5 | Meanwhile , it looks likely that most of the official aid to the repatriation process will be channelled through Guatemalan government agencies , given to the very people responsible for the refugee crisis in the first place . |
6 | ‘ Nothing unusual really , although of course it 's not usual to get yourself smashed up in a car accident in the first place . |
7 | But perhaps quite not so funny was why Stewart was fielding on the deep square-leg boundary in the first place during England 's three-wicket defeat . |
8 | You know , if , particularly so , if you 're only on a subsistence wage in the first place . |
9 | " But why did you run away from the hunting camp in the first place ? " |
10 | Perhaps more importantly , in the search process the searcher may need to retrieve a wider range of documents in order to make a relevance judgement in the first place . |
11 | On the other hand to put the whole blame on Frodo would seem ( to use a distinctively English ethical term ) ‘ unfair ’ ; if he had been an entirely wicked person he would never have reached the Sammath Naur in the first place . |
12 | Pressure on MAFF to extend the LFA boundary in the first place came from the farming lobby . |
13 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
14 | For example , gully erosion can be treated by mechanical means ( e.g. a masonry drop structure with apron ) , cutting back the gully head to stable ground and planting it to grass and/or trees , and following a variety of agronomic measures above the gully to reverse practices which brought about sheet and then gully erosion in the first place . |
15 | The paradox is , of course , that were this groundwork to be done there would be much less need for additional classroom support in the first place ! |
16 | Of course he was not excluding totally the role of natural selection in determining antler size : it would be natural selection , after all , that primarily determined body size in the first place . |
17 | In the official view , the use of the Swiss timer pointed clearly to Libya , not only because it had been supplied to its security agency in the first place , but because the PFLP — GC favoured a barometric-pressure triggering system for its Toshiba bombs . |
18 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
19 | But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place . |
20 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
21 | These arguments do not carry complete conviction , since the requirement of the D.P.P. 's consent would preclude private prosecution , and consistency was one of the aims behind the establishment of the Crown Prosecution Service in the first place . |
22 | You know what caused his kidney problem in the first place . |
23 | But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’ |
24 | With a four-inch diameter pipe , you would have to restrict the water flow considerably to draw air down the venturi pipe , which would defeat the object of having the wide bore pipe in the first place : that is , to transfer a large volume of water with the minimum disturbance . |
25 | It is not one to rally the world 's peasantries , pastoralists and other land-users to change the social conditions which bring about soil erosion in the first place . |
26 | She knew only the cream would have been able to get to Teacher Training College in the first place , and so many shared her desire and enthusiasm for education . |
27 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
28 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
29 | There is evidence to suggest that the most successful projects are pioneered by ‘ champions ’ , who not only sponsor the project proposal in the first place but manage the implementation phase and often the early stages of fully-fledged operation . |
30 | They did n't want the Health Service in the first place but we rapidly came round to it . |