Example sentences of "in the first [noun] if [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 520b. ( 1 ) A person is guilty of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree if he or she engages in sexual penetration with another person and if any of the following circumstances exists : ( a ) That other person is under 13 years of age . |
| 2 | Speak to your line manager in the first instance if you want to find out whether you can change the hours you work . |
| 3 | That five thousand per annum figure is a guaranteed figure , we could in fact print seven thousand in the first year if they wanted . |
| 4 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |
| 5 | ‘ I still do n't understand why the Milettis did n't try and stop-you handling the investigation in the first place if they feel so strongly about you . ’ |
| 6 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 7 | He would n't have got out in the first place if he had n't been , and when he calls up he sounds sharp . |
| 8 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 9 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 10 | I would n't have come to the office in the first place if you had n't asked me . ’ |