Example sentences of "[vb infin] in [art] first " in BNC.

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1 This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on .
2 They were made to stand and wait in the first of these .
3 Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ?
4 Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place .
5 However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously .
6 While ‘ The Month of August ’ and a number of other poems which pursue sexual and economic questions do appear in the first volume , Leapor 's most angry works were left out .
7 Thus did his byline appear in the first issue .
8 This means the voter marks his second preference on the ballot paper ; and , if his first choice candidate does not finish in the first two , his vote is transferred to one of those who is still in with a chance .
9 He 's not gon na get anything because it did n't finish in the first three but it was two hundred to one each way , he had two pound each way on it
10 Time was when the South West would be filled with Gloucester boys … only two Paul Holford and Dave Sims made it on Saturday and there was nothing they could do in the first half to stop the north from taking control … a try from Jim Mallinder gave them a 13-6 lead at half-time …
11 I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia .
12 If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical .
13 Wait , I 've got an instant who 's taking part in the conversations and you could type in the first names of those people and then again you 'll get back some why the use of the first name .
14 Why did the crisis occur in the first place ?
15 D' ya remember in the first when we had curly going everywhere .
16 The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 .
17 Under the new schedule the period Feb. 29-March 28 was set aside for the registration of voters and a constitutional referendum would be held on March 18 ; municipal elections would follow in the first half of April and legislative elections would be held in two rounds on May 17 and May 31 .
18 Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity .
19 They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place .
20 Do you see in the first two movements of the Fifth and in the whole of the Sixth a certain prophetic note , or do you see them in purely musical terms ?
21 BAYWATCH couple Billy Warlock and Erika Eleniak will marry in the first episode of the next series , their last appearance in the hit TV show .
22 Of course , if he looks dodgy then do n't stop in the first place ; just say that you do n't carry a watch .
23 The procedure is very informal ; a short note or even a telephone call will suffice in the first instance as we are mainly interested in concepts rather than with detailed descriptions .
24 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 .
25 There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) .
26 ‘ We did n't compete in the first half and if we miss tackles like that we 're not going to beat anybody .
27 MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes .
28 But I would think , I mean , ideally we need four I would think in the first instance er two of those and two of those and then the inners .
29 Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved .
30 Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place .
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