Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corfu , with its long sandy beaches , clear blue water and verdant mountain backdrop was one of the first places in Greece to be ‘ discovered ’ . |
| 2 | The amount of rain that was falling made this sure to be one of the first places to flood , and though the cubs were growing fast , they were still too small to cope with flood conditions . |
| 3 | I think your G P is maybe one of the first places to go but the trouble , I think , with people with eating problems is it 's very hard to explain what the problem is . |
| 4 | In fact , when a hotel or catering establishment decided to update its kitchen equipment , one of the first places that is often targeted for changes is the method of cooking . |
| 5 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 6 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 7 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
| 8 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
| 9 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 10 | While stainless is tough and harder to scratch in the first place , once it does become marked the scratch is permanent , unlike a mark on silver-plated cutlery which can be removed by re-plating . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
| 12 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 13 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
| 15 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 16 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 17 | Sir Kenneth Newman , to whom the report was presented , candidly admitted he would not have commissioned it in the first place ( it was commissioned by his predecessor , Sir David McNee ) , while the official Police Federation magazine ( Police , December 1983 ) concluded in an editorial : |
| 18 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 19 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 20 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 21 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place . |
| 23 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 24 | But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’ |
| 25 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 26 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 27 | Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place . |
| 28 | Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place . |
| 29 | In the first place , |
| 30 | On the contrary Olson is to be praised in the first place for the relentless hostility with which he presses the charge home : |