Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.

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1 Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place .
2 Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place .
3 As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place .
4 The meaning of middle-class friendship is not given by the original place of meeting but by the individuality of the people concerned who can now interact in any situation .
5 The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation .
6 It is not limited to a particular place .
7 The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place .
8 However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously .
9 Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources .
10 When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live .
11 Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place .
12 Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place .
13 I said , ‘ I can certainly not write about a real place : I 'd be arrested ’ ’
14 When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training .
15 The new university was not created in the obvious place — Magee College , Londonderry .
16 If you want a half-hearted approach I may as well not start in the first place . ’
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