Example sentences of "[vb pp] the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those rare occasions when a covert operation could be examined in the full glare of publicity and it showed what a foolhardy idea it was from the start for , even if Crabb had returned safely , it is unlikely he could have brought back enough information to have justified the risk in the first place . |
| 2 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 3 | Far too many of those who regularly spoke in those debates were a stage army who thought we should never have joined the Community in the first place . |
| 4 | But what 's irritated the muscle in the first place is Your guess is as good as mine , cos it all works perfectly . |
| 5 | We might not even have won the league in the first place . |
| 6 | It was probably all the worry over his unfeeling attitude , his intention to evict her , that had rekindled the dream in the first place . |
| 7 | How chagrined he would be to learn that she had n't sought the interview in the first place ; that had been just another of the wrong conclusions that he had drawn about her ! |
| 8 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 9 | No one can remove that personal responsibility from you , and if you do not discharge it ( through fear of a powerful chairman , or personal ambition , or even seeking an easy life ) , you should not have accepted the job in the first place . |
| 10 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | He had n't been offered the part in the first place and was more than content in the role of Smee . |
| 12 | This year , by some freak of fate , the Mendozas had drawn the O'Briens in the first round , and were due to play them at the latter 's new polo club forty miles away on the first Saturday in December . |
| 13 | But it does sound quite a big area to me if you have n't got the land in the first place . |
| 14 | They told me I should not have got the pack in the first place . |
| 15 | That 's how the Richardson 's got the Parrot in the first place . |
| 16 | That said , she should n't have been sold the tank in the first place . |
| 17 | People have encroached on the habitat , they have removed the predators or they have introduced the herbivores in the first place . |
| 18 | Torquay should have sealed the match in the first half-hour when three chances fell to ex-million pound man Justin Fashanu — one disallowed for a foul . |
| 19 | I worked out , later , that a ceptor from orbit may have been how my enemy had found the opening in the first place . |
| 20 | The company have stolen the paths in the first place . |
| 21 | Mr McSharry is supposed to have suggested that jubilant M Delors might care to take charge of the negotiations himself , since he had caused the mess in the first place . |
| 22 | However , alongside these measures , specifically directed towards the alleviation of symptoms , it is important to identify and change some of the external stresses that have caused the problems in the first place . |
| 23 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 24 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 25 | You may ask further questions which suggest implications , but if you do n't want to deal with the implications you should n't have asked the question in the first place . |
| 26 | ‘ But there would n't have been any damage to my property if they had fixed the damp in the first place a year ago . ’ |
| 27 | Apart from the inherent improbability that trained intelligence agents would simply add an armed suitcase bomb tagged for New York-JFK to a pile of international luggage waiting to be loaded in Luqa and then trust to luck that , unescorted , the bomb would get through the baggage-handling and security arrangements of two other major airports and be loaded aboard the target aircraft before the timer triggered an explosion , there remained the problem with the provenance and reliability of the Frankfurt baggage-list that was said to have identified the suitcase in the first place . |
| 28 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 29 | Unhappily , the section does not appear to authorise him to do so , since it refers in paragraph ( a ) to ‘ the constable , ’ a reference back to the constable who has issued the warning in the first place . |
| 30 | If you were going to worry about her feelings you would n't have started the affair in the first place . ’ |