Example sentences of "was [verb] in the first place " in BNC.
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1 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
2 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
3 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
4 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
5 | The nature of the ‘ causes ’ identified by the different approaches , in other words , reflected very clearly the way the enquiry was framed in the first place . |
6 | It was derived in the first place from Goethe and Goethe 's Hellenist contemporaries ; and it was modified only by the conviction that the ailments which artists and thinkers of that period had identified in the Germany of their day were now more virulent than ever , while an additional threat was posed by the new diseases of mediocrity and the cult of " progress " ( often associated with politicking and liberalism ) , from which the age of Goethe had been relatively free . |
7 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
8 | In its defence the computer points out that the problem lies not in its answer but in the question it was asked in the first place . |
9 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |
10 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |