Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |
| 2 | If someone 's natural breathing is already shallow , that person is much more likely to panic in the first place . |
| 3 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 4 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 5 | To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice . |
| 6 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |
| 7 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |