Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] 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 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 4 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 5 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 6 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 7 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 8 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 9 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 10 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Western Europe the idea of attack by columns in close formation seems to have been put forward for the first time by the Chevalier de Folard in his Nouvelles Découvertes sur la Guerre ( 1724 ) . |
| 17 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 18 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A HUNDRED in your first innings of the season is sweet , and especially so if it 's your team 's third one-day match , and you 've been left out of the first two because you are not regarded as a one-day player . |
| 23 | Over in Cheltenham , Frank Ford has been watching out for the first signs of winter . |
| 24 | Sealey has been kept out of the first team picture at Villa by Nigel Spink . |
| 25 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |