Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 2 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 3 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
| 4 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 5 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 6 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 7 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 8 | Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him . |
| 9 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 10 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 11 | O tonnes per day on-line in the first half of this year . |
| 12 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 13 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |
| 14 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 15 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 16 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 17 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 18 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 19 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 20 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 21 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 22 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 23 | Look here — you 've done wrong twice over : what you said was wrong in the first place ; but then you failed to carry out your promise ! |
| 24 | That 's wrong in the first place . |
| 25 | Société Générale , one of the country 's biggest banks , had to raise provisions against dud loans by more than half in the first six months of 1990 . |
| 26 | Mortality is relatively high in the first year of life and then decreases during childhood ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 27 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 28 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 29 | It cuts down a , er , er , risk which is perhaps not that high in the first place . |
| 30 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |