Example sentences of "[v-ing] the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack for one never forgave himself for encouraging the venture in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I still do n't understand why the Milettis did n't try and stop-you handling the investigation in the first place if they feel so strongly about you . ’ |
| 3 | The Information Memorandum was the very thing which made the Purchaser interested in acquiring the Business in the first place . |
| 4 | However , by applying the theory in the first instance to a complex situation the limitations of the software being used were highlighted , from which the obvious conclusions could be drawn . |
| 5 | With Liverpool manager Graeme Souness starting a five-match UEFA touchline ban for abusing the referee in the first leg , their 1992 European campaign has produced a catalogue of disasters for a club once feared across the continent . |
| 6 | With few exceptions , such as franchising in hotels and fast foods , where the service can be ‘ packaged ’ and transferred to a third party under stringent conditions of control , most service firms find that they require equity control to ‘ internalise ’ the gains and recoup the high costs of developing the network in the first place . |
| 7 | By the end of the War , the Nouvelle Revue Française people realised their mistake in refusing the novel in the first place , and with that erm commercial acumen which I think still characterises that particular publishing house , they now quickly obtained exclusive publication rights . |
| 8 | This was an interlocutory hearing so no final decision was taken but the judge thought that there was an arguable case that the list of mnemonics was protected by copyright because of the work in designing the controller in the first place . |
| 9 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 10 | The switch from almost ignoring the issue in the first week to so much concentration in the third should have had some effect upon the public . |
| 11 | Alan Shearer wore the number ten shirt with high hopes of scoring the goals in the first international since the retirement of Gary Lineker . |
| 12 | Only McCall , who hurt his neck in training yesterday , has a reasonable chance of facing the French in the first game in Group A of the mini-league series . |
| 13 | ‘ He ought to have been stopped from buying the paper in the first place , ’ he said . |
| 14 | First let us be clear that the cost of buying the car in the first place , garaging it , taxing it , the M.O.T . |
| 15 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 16 | And if you if they ca n't absorb the information what 's the point in giving the signal in the first place ? |
| 17 | ‘ That 's one of the main reasons for having the newsletter in the first place , because they 're all working to the same end , but it is n't always easy to know what they 're up to , ’ says Current Account editor Brigid Cleary . |
| 18 | BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place . |
| 19 | How much smaller we had to estimate before cutting the tyre in the first place . |
| 20 | I would also like to say that the report does mention obligations of other interested er people like er farming groups etc. , and the National Rivers Authority to er do everything possible from stopping the parasite entering the water in the first place . |
| 21 | This is no bad thing as the software provides a very efficient way of preventing a virus from entering the system in the first place . |
| 22 | This is no bad thing as the software provides a very efficient way of preventing a virus from entering the system in the first place . |
| 23 | Not frightened about not knowing the answers but frightened about not hearing the questions in the first place . ’ |
| 24 | By the time they have reached such mountainous heights they have forgotten what was difficult about learning the subject in the first place ! |
| 25 | The fourth plea states that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the action in the Court of Exchequer , which he , the plaintiff , at the time of the commencement of the said action , and thence until the time of the making the promise in the first count mentioned , well knew . |
| 26 | The banks might have been imprudent in making the loans in the first place , but they are both clever and scrupulous when it comes to protecting the value of their assets . |
| 27 | In the meantime , in this first article we will look at what your rights as a purchaser are , what you can expect from goods purchased , how to resolve some irritating problems with items already purchased , and some tips for avoiding the aggro in the first place . |
| 28 | In any case the use of a tablet will be restricted to selection between a number of options , menu selection or simple games controls for example , and the computer keyboard will still be needed for data entry — and loading the program in the first place . |
| 29 | He failed to shoulder the responsibility , which Government should shoulder , for imposing the tax in the first place . |
| 30 | Otherwise , raising the issue in the first place could in the end prove counter-productive : if an international war crimes tribunal is clearly revealed to have no teeth , potential offenders may be emboldened to do whatever they like . |