Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 3 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 4 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 5 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 7 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 8 | The Taunton 150 special anniversary ale almost sold out in the first day and most other stallholders enjoyed a brisk trade too ! |
| 9 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 10 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 11 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 12 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 13 | Alban Berg 's Piano Sonata Op. 1 comprises a single long movement ; it is almost continuously melodic , yet virtually the whole piece seems to be derived from rhythmic cells given out in the first phrase : Notice how cells a and c are really the same , c being an augmentation of a . |
| 14 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 15 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 16 | Now Mill realizes that the objection to this is the last problem coercion , that if people 's votes are known , then some people might be able to put pressure on others to vote one way rather than another and as I said why the secret ballot was brought in in the first place . |
| 17 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 18 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 19 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 20 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 21 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 22 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 23 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 24 | The rules which must be followed in arranging and conducting the election are set out in the first schedule to the 1983 Act as amended . |
| 25 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 26 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 27 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 28 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 29 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 30 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |