Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 2 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 3 | Incredibly , the government take £3.50 through VAT from the production of each medal , or roughly twice what the charities get , even though it is due to their cruel neglect that the medals have to be struck in the first place . |
| 4 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 5 | Tradesmen 's vans , builders lorries , furniture vans ( brought by night , twelve to twenty-five at a time , ) followed into the Road Vehicle Shop gate , their mechanical condition as varied as their outward appearance , to be fitted in the first place with a double wooden box lined with pebbles — a Heath-Robinson contraption , but resistant to machine-gun fire at close range . |
| 6 | The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place . |
| 7 | Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport . |
| 8 | The new regulations , requiring a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament , were expected to be enacted in the first half of 1993 and would bring German immigration and asylum provisions broadly in line with those of other West European countries . |
| 9 | The US , which is paying about $4 million for each missile , rightly points out , and sometimes ruefully , that the nations of Western Europe asked for the weapon to be deployed in the first place . |
| 10 | Stephen Orgel discerns in the theatre of this time the fear that man 's superior development could be reversed — ‘ that men can turn into — or be turned into — women ; or perhaps more exactly , can be turned back into woman , losing the strength that enabled the male potential to be realized in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | The normal process , as seen during Innocent 's pontificate , was for messengers , often close confidants of the pope , but in minor offices , to be sent in the first instance — then to be followed by negotiators of the highest rank . |
| 12 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 13 | Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place . |
| 14 | The second view would point to the fact that in reality it is the Prime Minister who , in setting the agenda for Cabinet discussion , decides what is to be discussed in the first place and consequently has power . |
| 15 | Consider for a moment two ways of superimposing fourths on the scale of C major : In order to create chords each having two perfect fourths as in ( a ) , B♭ and E♭ have had to be introduced in the first and fourth chords . |
| 16 | The point , in short , is that such an existent is typically someone who knows and refers to himself as " I myself " , and that all reports that identify this existent in an essential way will have to be phrased in the first person singular . |
| 17 | • Try to arrange for your activities to be concentrated in the first part of the day and for relaxation to come later . |
| 18 | It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough . |
| 19 | Each of the three hypotheses making up the theory of determinism to be expounded in the first part of this book has to do with mental events , which is to say events within consciousness . |
| 20 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 21 | This reflects the pressures that caused the documents to be produced in the first place . |
| 22 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 23 | The 601 , to sample later this year is destined to be used in the first Power PC Macs and other low cost desktops . |
| 24 | He dies lying across his brother 's body , a complicated split screen effect in which Irons was first Elliot , sprawled half-sitting against the wall with a stand-in across his lap , and then Beverly lying in exactly the same position as the stand-in for a matte shot to be inserted in the first image . |
| 25 | ‘ Sorry , is it you or me , but one of us appears to be working in the first person . ’ |
| 26 | First round defeat for Agassi would put him alongside Manuel Santana as the only returning champion to be eliminated in the first round . |
| 27 | On the contrary Olson is to be praised in the first place for the relentless hostility with which he presses the charge home : |
| 28 | The first machines are now likely to be shipped in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 29 | Soon the fog of freedom is so thick that it is difficult to remember just what song they were supposed to be playing in the first place . |