Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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1 | Good arrangements and an eye for detail can only be achieved with practice , so it may help to have a few guidelines to follow in the first place , if only to act as a spring board for producing interesting and unusual ideas of your own . |
2 | After all , our licence fee got the programmes made in the first place |
3 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
4 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
5 | Of course , this is not even really a realistic option , because you 'd still have the impossible communication problem of getting the information out to the individuals involved in the first place , and then getting the answers back again and coordinating them to make some sort of over-all sense . |
6 | If a wasp or bee has to die in order to convey the message of its coloration , how did warning colours evolve in the first place ? |
7 | After the violent conditions that erm we think occurred in the early life of the earth and injected energy and churned up the atmosphere and formed the prebiotic molecules , we find that just those same molecules are actually in the clouds in space , and these clouds are the basic raw material from which stars and plants form in the first place , so we might ask the question could they have got into the earth 's atmosphere without this intermediate process , and I think there are mechanisms whereby these molecules can accrete into the earth 's atmosphere , and it certainly suggests that we should look at thse and certainly not be taken as a foregone conclusion that the Uray/Miller experiments are the only mechanism whereby the prebiotic soup was formed . |
8 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
9 | As regards the condition relating to the place of operation , direction and control of the vessel , the applicants in the main proceedings stated in the first place that the flag state might legitimately require some measure of onshore representation in order to ensure that the authorities of that state had some method of tracing the responsibility of the operator . |
10 | Many countries who received aid to introduce the Green Revolution had repressive regimes , whose policies had in the first place brought about the poverty . |
11 | In addition , how are cold weather benefits assessed in the first place ? |
12 | In cases of this sort , inferences arise to preserve the assumption of cooperation ; it is only by making the assumption contrary to superficial indications that the inferences arise in the first place . |
13 | This is that whilst nuclear plants may be more expensive than other types to construct in the first place , they are potentially very cheap to run . |