Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 3 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 4 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 5 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 6 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 7 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 8 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 9 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 10 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
| 11 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 12 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 13 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 14 | After a certain point the wants which it is intended to satisfy have to be artificially created in the first place by advertising and salesmanship . |
| 15 | Repeated slips may mean that recovery was never clearly established in the first place or they may be an indication of the beginning of a full-scale relapse . |
| 16 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 17 | And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you . |
| 18 | The first is a practical issue : domain dictionaries are only of use if the domain has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 19 | Firstly , specific dictionaries can only be relied upon if the domain of the test data has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 20 | For the next four months the Prime Minister 's horse still has to be kept in Quarantine in Moscow and in London , Then finally John Majors will get the birthday present he never really wanted in the first place . |
| 21 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 23 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |
| 24 | In addition , a challenge may be issued by a person who is prosecuted with one of the offences to be considered that the conditions were improperly imposed in the first place . |
| 25 | This sort of procedure is well established in other organizations , such as the University , and provided the preferred suppliers are properly chosen in the first place , and alternative source prices are kept under review at regular intervals , I think there are economic advantages in standardising suppliers . |
| 26 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 27 | actually asked in the first place . |
| 28 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 29 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 30 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |