Example sentences of "it [verb] in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a rule of thumb , moving a nearly new greenhouse will only cost about the same as it would to have it erected in the first place . |
| 2 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 3 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 4 | For a start , there 's a whole team of people who work to make sure it happens in the first place . |
| 5 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 6 | When a commentary on Michael Rutter 's Fifteen Thousand Hours was formulated by Tizard and others ( 1980 ) it acknowledged in the first place that in the report an impressive base of data supported " an architecture in which many common sense perceptions about schools were co-ordinated " ( Tizard et al. |
| 7 | The overiding feeling among local people is one of relief that the party is over — what many are asking though , is why it was allowed it to start in the first place . |
| 8 | Indeed , if there is a zero eigenvalue , it appears in the first transformation , i.e. in B. It follows that shifting ( see 2.7.4 ) can be used with great advantage to accelerate convergence . |
| 9 | His two pamphlets written during the First World War ( Durkheim , 1915a , 1915b ) show a total disregard — astonishing in a sociologist — for the social causes of the war ; the first provides a brief diplomatic history of the events leading up to the war , intended to demonstrate German ‘ guilt ’ , while the second naively analyses , during the postwar period , in nationalist movements and the formation of nation states is easily understandable , since it coincided in the first place with an upsurge of nationalism directed specifically against the economic and political dominance of the Western capitalist countries — where the great majority of sociologists live and work — which created an entirely new situation and new problems for those countries . |
| 10 | If during the period of habituation the touch of the glass rod is coupled with some other stimulus — say a bright light — the original response at once returns in full , so it can not be merely because of exhaustion that it disappeared in the first place . |
| 11 | Since the downfall of military regimes in South America and elsewhere provide clear evidence that no political structure relying solely on coercion can hope to survive for long , we should not be surprised to find that the most effective form of social control involves attempts not to crush opposition but to stop it arising in the first place : that is , by the control of people 's ideas , rather than of their actions . |
| 12 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 13 | In Scotland and Wales there is the same pressure for equal treatment but it comes in the first instance from MPs who will pounce on any discrepancies and ask why England ( or Scotland and Wales ) is receiving special treatment . |