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 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 5 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |