Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 2 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 3 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 4 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 5 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 6 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 7 | Preventive approaches are often classified as primary ( avoiding the abnormality arising in the first place ) , secondary ( early detection and medical treatment , or selective abortion ) , or tertiary ( surgical correction ) . |