Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 2 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 3 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 4 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 5 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 6 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 7 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 8 | Among them , a black and white jackdaw hopped , a magic sign of great portent and possibly the reason why the camp had been pitched there in the first place . |
| 9 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 10 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 11 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |
| 12 | But there could be no going back on the decision to end National Service , which had been taken over-hastily in the first place , and without adequate consultation in the second . |