Example sentences of "be not in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 2 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 3 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 4 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 5 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |