Example sentences of "be [vb pp] in the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 3 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 4 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 5 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | But how do you find out about whether a planning application has been made in the first place ? |
| 7 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 8 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 9 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 10 | The real question is why the scalper 's services are needed in the first place . |
| 11 | An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention . |
| 12 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 13 | The question revolves around whether revenue should have been recognised in the first place , i.e. had a sale taken place at all . |
| 14 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 15 | It 's about preventing crime , because people who are burgled would rather not have been burgled in the first place . |
| 16 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 17 | As a result , the Government backed off , and the new regulation , which should never have been proposed in the first place , was ignominiously withdrawn . |
| 18 | As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place . |
| 19 | Porter might wish to question how such groups with non-related SBUs came to be formed in the first place . |
| 20 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 21 | It must be recalled in the first place that in Reg. v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , Ex parte Agegate Ltd . |
| 22 | In retrospect it seems extraordinary that some of these could be prescribed in the first place . |
| 23 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 24 | Enquiries related to redundant churches , and especially their adaptation , should be addressed in the first place either to the secretary of the Redundant Churches Uses Committee of the Diocese ( see diocesan handbook ) or to the Secretary of the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches of the Church Commissioners . |
| 25 | The most powerful potential weapon in Parliament 's hands remains its control over clauses enabling regulations to be made in the first place . |
| 26 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 27 | The key question is not whether their use may be discontinued , once started ; rather , it is whether they should be used in the first place . |
| 28 | This would be used in the first place to pay that week 's invoice and the balance , if any , would reduce the outstanding invoice of £24,196 . |
| 29 | This reflects the pressures that caused the documents to be produced in the first place . |
| 30 | Selection of a partner may be based in the first place largely on feeling for or about a parent . |