Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [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 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 7 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 11 | As with any new aquarium or pond the water quality must be monitored especially in the first 6–8 weeks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | This type of diabetes is diagnosed usually in the first half of life , exposing those affected to abnormal levels of blood glucose and other metabolites for decades . |
| 17 | The fourth-seeded American looked sluggish as his serve was broken twice in the first set by the unseeded Swede Magnus Gustafsson , who went on to win their quarter-final 6-2 , 7-6 , clinching the tiebreak 7-4 . |
| 18 | ‘ She was buried here in the first century BC . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |