Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 2 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 3 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 4 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 5 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 6 | Do n't know why you 're going there in the first place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 12 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 13 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 14 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 15 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 16 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |
| 17 | Rule 1(a) stipulates that the offer must be put forward in the first instance to the board of the target company or its advisers . |
| 18 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 19 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 25 | It is believed that substantial numbers of ‘ additional ’ known drug users may have been ‘ missed ’ only in the case of GPs ( to whom 124 problem drug users were known exclusively in the first survey ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 28 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 29 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 30 | But after being knocked out in the first round of the English Derby the dog injured a hind muscle and was out of action for a long time . |