Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the first place [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish .
2 It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour .
3 So you were twenty years at the first place as well ?
4 The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless .
5 It also demands that someone is skilled enough to set up the stylesheets in the first place unless you want to stick with the standard set provided by Xerox .
6 If they are , then the system simply wo n't learn the two tasks in the first place but will consistently generate inappropriate responses .
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