Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 5 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( Proposal document ) These project objectives were set out in the first project report ( Taylor , 1983 ) and are quoted in Section 2.1 . |
| 12 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 13 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 18 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 19 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 20 | The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al. |
| 21 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 22 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 25 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This demographic pattern was laid down in the first half of the century when the inter-war birth-rate declined markedly . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |