Example sentences of "on the [noun] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | One understands why information should be put on the computer in the first place . |
| 2 | with 60 kids sitting on the floor in the first grade . |
| 3 | O'Connor , jnr , three-putted himself to extinction for he needed 22 strokes on the greens in the first nine holes which he covered in 43 shots . |
| 4 | Well , it 's the way he spoke on the phone in the first place ! |
| 5 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 6 | According to the IMF , the upward pressure on the deutschmark in the first half of 1990 did not adversely affect other currencies participating in the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) , as increases in West German interest rates were largely matched throughout the European Communities . |
| 7 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 8 | His ideas about blood transfusion are mad , but if someone had not had mad ideas on the subject in the first instance , would anyone have subsequently developed sane ideas ? |
| 9 | With the stakes so high , the lack of atmosphere on the terraces in the first half was a complete mystery . |
| 10 | Moreover recent events at Sellafield indicate that that enforcement apparatus is more likely to be used against environmentally-conscious groups such as Greenpeace at the behest of public bodies like BNFL which are responsible for inflicting the damage on the environment in the first place . |
| 11 | An exercise based on the material in the first four parts . |
| 12 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 13 | And coming up on the rails in the first division are Oxford United . |
| 14 | After the depression of the late nineteenth century Argentina was very much a country on the move in the first three decades of the twentieth . |
| 15 | If he 'd had the money to choose a more experienced barrister , if the Marshal himself had been on the spot in the first place instead of that young fool student , Bacci , who fancied himself as some sort of Hollywood detective , probably have shot himself accidentally by this time … whole thing had been a mess from start to finish … |
| 16 | The surprising proposal came days before the Swedish government was expected to place Procordia on the market in the first step towards privatisation . |
| 17 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 18 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |
| 19 | BR has rightly refused to speculate on how the animals came to be on the line in the first place . |