Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun sg] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We robbed them of their land in the first place to reward the Annamese who collaborated with us . |
| 2 | Studies in Minnesota have shown that once machines come in , racetracks lose 20–30% of their business in the first year . |
| 3 | Voices were raised in support of rounding up all foreigners , but the government was unwilling to go the way of its predecessor in the first world war and order a general internment . |
| 4 | The way it gets most of its growth in the first I mean , |
| 5 | The importance of the role she was now , willy-nilly , being forced to play in European affairs , in spite ( or perhaps because ) of her increasing weakness and inefficiency , is shown by the great though indirect and unsought significance of her part in the first partition of Poland ( see pp. 273ff ) . |
| 6 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 7 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |