Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 'm grateful to you for your help and for coming to High Brook in the first place . |
| 2 | Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place . |
| 3 | Indeed , imposing performance-based emoluments of this sort flies in the face of one major reason for regulation or public ownership in the first place . |
| 4 | This was because , Murphy told him , he had never known a proper lady in the first place . |
| 5 | Noone knew what had happened cos noone expected a free kick in the first place let alone expected them to take it like that . |
| 6 | But how did ‘ race ’ come to occupy a place in post-war British education in the first place and what were its terms of entry ? |
| 7 | ‘ We were given the wrong advice in the first place , ’ says Jeremy Myles of TEM . |
| 8 | There are also important questions to be asked about the reasons for admission to residential care in the first place , for that in itself is an aspect of dependency . |
| 9 | The Korean War , which had caused the US to propose German rearmament in the first place , had settled into stalemate and the danger of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe had receded : German rearmament no longer seemed necessary . |
| 10 | Again it should be emphasised that many sufferers never receive counselling ( except from a sponsor ) or go into residential treatment in the first place and that residential treatment centres have no place other than to help sufferers remove blocks to their understanding of the principles of recovery of the . |
| 11 | There is no small irony in this , as applications to purchase foreign technology in the first place will only be approved if the relevant Soviet machine building ministry can not produce something of the appropriate standard and quantity in the time required . |
| 12 | In this section the object is to examine in some detail the important preliminary issue of why the debate should be one about the public interest in the first place , and why company law should not be seen instead as being solely concerned with the rights of the corporators , that is , the shareholders . |
| 13 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
| 14 | I do not believe that reaction occurs except through individual resistance in the first place . |
| 15 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
| 16 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 17 | One problem is how to give the retributive principle a moral grounding in the first place . |
| 18 | Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place . |
| 19 | Causing such changes to happen was not Ronald Reagan 's real agenda in the first place . |
| 20 | This assumes that banks have surplus liquidity in the first place . |
| 21 | Mrs. Layton , a member of the Women 's Cooperative Guild , made the decision to allow her husband the 1/6d to join the Cooperative Society in the first place . |
| 22 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 23 | But it 's better than giving handouts to the real mother in the first place , because with kids round her apron she ca n't find herself a job . |
| 24 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 25 | If you do muddle up the crowd-flow arrangements , Over-stretch the facilities or pick an unsuitable venue in the first place , you cause enormous distractions from the event and the message . |
| 26 | Applying this to the realities of international law , the ethical positivist in the first place rejects the search for an intuited or reasoned ‘ natural law ’ on which to base international law , for he views law as a human creation to serve those human objectives which survive ethical criticism . |
| 27 | Provided that the panel is selected on a random basis in the first place , we can be sure that the changes identified are real changes in the group and , within a given limit of reliability , in the population as well . |
| 28 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 29 | And it 's no use giving out with the ‘ Try a little tenderness ’ technique , you know , ‘ Let Granny take the little fellow for the afternoon — draw the shades , chill the wine , slip into a backless silk negligee , and remind yourselves how much fun it was making the little fellow in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Winter-lets can be one possible cause of homelessness , although the reasons for occupants being in seasonal accommodation in the first place are very difficult to evaluate , and only now is the law being clarified in the courts . |