Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ A share is the interest of a shareholder in the company measured by a sum of money , for the purpose of liability in the first place , and of interest in the second , but also consisting of a series of mutual covenants entered into by all the shareholders inter se in accordance with [ section 14 ] . |
| 3 | It remains highly questionable why such a sensational and unrealistic play should be thought worthy of attention in the first place , but this is perhaps indicative of attitudes within the theatre that mental handicap is a good basis for plays written by writers who have no understanding of mental handicap but view it as a subject of horror around which some dramatic scenario can be created . |
| 4 | In other words , the very things that led to the development of the laws of war in the first place are still with us . |
| 5 | I can not understand why we were issued with a single piece of plastic in the first place , unless it was to save you money , since there was certainly no reduction for us . |
| 6 | Prevention becomes genetic screening or ’ gene therapy ’ instead of the actual prevention of ill-health in the first place : good primary health care , cleaning the environment of reproductive health hazards ( radiation contamination etc. ) , adequate nutrition and housing , attention to dangerous prescription drugs ( a lesson learned from thalidomide ) , and so on . |
| 7 | Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’ |
| 8 | Clearly much will depend on the availability of information in the first place . |
| 9 | And there is the question of the relevance of the trading of information in the first place . |
| 10 | More moderate temperaments , to whom the patterning seemed a sort of death in the first place , are apt to remain stubbornly cheerful . |
| 11 | It is the possibility of such many-one codings that justifies a multilevel model of language in the first place . |