Example sentences of "into [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could they have come into existence in the first place without malicious midwives ? |
| 2 | Something like it is well-nigh inevitable , once the fundamental ingredients of cumulative selection — replication , error and power — have come into existence in the first place . |
| 3 | But another kind of question is how the complicated thing came into existence in the first place . |
| 4 | But first , Pam , how did you get into physics in the first place ? |
| 5 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 6 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 7 | Is that is that o o one of the reasons that you went into business in the first place ? |
| 8 | Thrifts should never have been subsidised and led into junk in the first place . |
| 9 | After all , reckoned America 's lawmakers , these bosses know most about what needs to be done — never mind that they got the firm into trouble in the first place . |
| 10 | A lot of blokes say the reason they got into music in the first place was they thought it would be a great way of pulling women . |
| 11 | Following this , and usually beginning with ‘ How did you get into smack in the first place ? ’ , the interviewer then proceeded through a list of questions to be answered , not in any ordered fashion , but in a conversational manner allowing the respondent to move in whichever direction he or she wanted . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It makes sense to me to prevent ill health , so that people do n't have to go into hospital in the first place . |
| 13 | We crave new discoveries and the attendant excitement and promise — that is what drives many of us into science in the first place . |
| 14 | European idealism brought me into politics in the first place . |