Example sentences of "happen [prep] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place .
2 I need to explain why this was happening in the first place .
3 Often happens for a first night if it 's not selling … ’
4 What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ?
5 That what happens after the first ten minutes , you have to go and do something else , then what happens , you physically get up and do , but you will do something else .
6 For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place .
7 Film reviewers have a simple rule for sizing up new movies : ‘ If nothing happens in the first ten minutes , ’ they say , ‘ nothing 's going to happen . ’
8 This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World .
9 There was a need to keep the US public involved in great power politics , in marked contrast to what happened after the First World War .
10 ‘ Something happened in the first half and I lashed out , giving him a kick up the backside .
11 What was I doing , in the late twentieth century , arguing that what happened in the first century was of relevance to whether or not I could be a deacon .
12 Did any any of you three see what anything that happened in the first one .
13 Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe .
14 And therefore , you begin to question whether it ever really happened in the first place , do n't you .
15 It nearly happened in the first Test .
16 So I du n no what happened to the first one .
17 A race that nearly did n't happen as the first of August 's glorious ‘ weather ’ settled in .
18 If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk .
19 When we are developing an artist on an international basis , success does n't necessarily happen in the first or second album .
20 Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts .
21 erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place .
22 The United States would probably have reverted to isolationism as happened after the First World War ; Congress would have cut back Defence spending , starving the US defence/industrial base ; and American big business would have looked elsewhere for profitable enterprises .
23 His one serious love affair had happened in the first year of the war with a girl younger than himself whom he had thought he loved .
24 And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place .
25 How on earth would that have happened in the first instance ?
26 I mean , two of them seem as if they are referring back to something which has happened since the first two . ’
27 ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’
28 The most important of these , from a behavioural point of view , are held to happen in the first five years of life .
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