Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 3 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
| 4 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
| 8 | What on earth has it got to do with him in the first place ? |
| 9 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | A re-check should never be necessary , since this only implies the acceptance of a half-hearted check in the first place . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They promote health and help prevent illness in the first place . |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | 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 ) : |
| 15 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 16 | Thought you were so damn smart getting it in the first place , and drink has blurred you so much you 've blown it . |
| 17 | And I would not have made the war in the first place . ’ |
| 18 | Having your real job abolished must mean there was no real job in the first place . |
| 19 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
| 20 | But why the need for the increase in the marioc subsidy in the first place ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now the other young man never believed any of his professed and contradictory reasons in the first place . |
| 25 | In the first place , |
| 26 | On the contrary Olson is to be praised in the first place for the relentless hostility with which he presses the charge home : |
| 27 | In the first place , this is Pound at his most old-fashioned . |
| 28 | It was a series of financial penalties imposed by Washington for manifold breaches of the 1977 Clean Air Act which forced the LA authorities to formulate such an epic approach in the first place . |
| 29 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 30 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |