Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 2 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 3 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 4 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 5 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 6 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 7 | The authors of the remarkable study quoted so extensively in the first part of this chapter themselves point out that |
| 8 | What is interesting about this is that they clearly do not know the history of the form ; they are unaware that the rule was made so rigidly in the first place to suit the whims of anti-feminists . |
| 9 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 10 | The gulf between Hitler 's immense popularity and the generally low standing of the Party had nevertheless if anything widened still further in the first wartime years . |
| 11 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 12 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 13 | Nonetheless , Southend had their chances — notably early in the first half . |
| 14 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 15 | ‘ They played really well in the first half and their commitment was total in the second half . |
| 16 | The attachment to a preferred person develops most strongly in the first year of life . |
| 17 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 18 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 19 | She acts particularly well in the first scene |
| 20 | It is not , at least not in the first instance , the formulation of clear , precise , and coherently related propositions backed up by sufficient evidence and argument . |
| 21 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 22 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 23 | Coton twice saved almost miraculously in the first half when both Pearson and Hirst were frustrated by the woodwork as Wednesday 's mixture of pace , strength and rapid teamwork overwhelmed the visitors . |
| 24 | THE best-laid schemes of Seve Ballesteros went sadly awry in the first round of the Turespana Masters here yesterday . |
| 25 | Now aged 31 , Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth . |
| 26 | The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s . |
| 27 | But then again , you could n't have predicted they 'd get this far in the first place . |
| 28 | This contrasts with Oxfordshire , which fared very well in the first period and very badly in the next two , and with Somerset , which had the smallest increase in the first period , followed by among the largest in each of the next two years . |
| 29 | The only other possibility is that it was never there in the first place — that she left it at home by mistake . ’ |