Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 31 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 32 | But it is the husband who is responsible for paying it and who must acquire the money from outside in the first place . |
| 33 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 34 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 35 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 36 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 37 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 38 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 39 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 40 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 41 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 42 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 43 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 44 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 45 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 46 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 47 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 48 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 49 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 50 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 51 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 52 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 53 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 54 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 55 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 56 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 57 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 58 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 59 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 60 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |