Example sentences of "for the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 2 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 3 | Appearances : Tudor Owen for the officers in the first case , Edmund Lawson QC and Michael Egan for Mr Cherry , all instructed by Russell Jones & Walker ; Ann Goddard QC with Nicholas Ainley in the first case , and with Oliver Sells in the Cherry case , all instructed by the DPP ; James Holdsworth instructed by the Treasury Solicitor for both magistrates . |
| 4 | I felt like Plain Jane , and Dustin felt they had made a mistake in choosing him for the film in the first place . |
| 5 | An action is relevantly similar if it too has the properties which constituted one 's reasons for the judgement in the first case . |
| 6 | ( Provided he was not questioned for the offence in the first police station ) . |
| 7 | Six groups of general practitioners in the north east of Scotland were identified for the exercise in the first three months of 1990 — five in Grampian and one in Tayside . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ It seems a bit of a nonsense to struggle to provide a good service and then for compensation awarded by the Ombudsman to come out of the money provided for the work in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | His idea was that , as the Masai acquired more and more permanent waters , they would at first acquire more and more cattle ; indeed , the prospect of doing so would be the incentive required to get them to pay for the water in the first place . |
| 10 | There was no justification for the ban in the first place and is the Secretary of State not concerned that the International Labour Organisation has expressed much concern over the continuing ban and it may well be that in view of the fact that the government is not willing to compromise in any way the I L O may well decide to formally rebuke and reprimand the government . |
| 11 | Even during the height of enthusiasm for the monarchy in the first half of the 1680s , Anglican polemicists offered hints that their loyalty to the Church came before their loyalty to the Crown . |
| 12 | I shall suggest that this does not follow because rationality is not in fact the grounds for the distinction in the first place . |
| 13 | I 'm only here for the beer in the first place and , the way I see it , if old skull-face came knocking on my door with his scythe at least I could get my laughing gear around some of that celestial scrumpy ! |
| 14 | This is not necessarily as great as the increase in the liabilities of the target company related to the breach of warranty , particularly if the purchaser has only paid a nominal price for the shares in the first place . |
| 15 | There is no need for the prosecution in the first instance to provide evidence of anything more . |
| 16 | and Alastair Forrest for the plaintiff in the first action . |
| 17 | and R. J. Mitchell for the contemnor in the first appeal . |
| 18 | After two postal rounds , ten teams survived to compete in the finals for the Cup and the Plate ( the competition for the runners-up in the first round ) . |
| 19 | Other campaigners have questioned the very need for the line in the first place . |
| 20 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 21 | ‘ The person who signed you up for the job in the first place , remember . ’ |
| 22 | Surely if a charge is made for this service it should be made to District Audit who , I understand , asked for the information in the first place . |
| 23 | Regular readers will recall that the first half of the 1970s saw an unprecedented upsurge of feminist activism , the most vigorous since the struggle for the vote in the first two decades of the century . |