Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 2 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 3 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 4 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |
| 5 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
| 6 | They were little eyes in the first place . |
| 7 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't agree with play-offs in the first place . |
| 9 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 10 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |
| 11 | Venables added : ‘ It is unfair that the stigma of being a cheat was attached to Gordon and to our club in the first place , especially when you consider some of the play-acting that goes on abroad . ’ |
| 12 | Mountbatten , as Chief of Defence Staff , welcomed the idea , if he did not actually sow it in the Prime Minister 's mind in the first place . |
| 13 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 14 | Rough weather fell when the platform called the sisters ‘ back to the fold ’ , stirring protest that women had never left any mythical fold in the first place , and if anyone needed to find their way home , it sure was n't the sisters ! |
| 15 | Pluto ( since discovered to be a ‘ double planet ’ ) is far too small to create the perturbations in Neptune 's orbit that started off the search in the first place . |
| 16 | Why call a search in the first place ? ’ |
| 17 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ I always wanted to tackle the overcrowding in Darlington which is why I provided the £243,000 in the first place . |
| 19 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 20 | ' — another thing : what the fuck was he doing on the roof in the first place ? ’ |
| 21 | The curious thing is why a university made Mr Jeffries head of an academic department in the first place . |
| 22 | Further difficulties lay in raising funds in the first place . |
| 23 | Mr. McAllion : The Minister said that there will be only one form of financial assistance per company , in the form of the £48,750 to help people to put together a bid in the first place . |
| 24 | Police believe the thief was the ‘ kitchen chemist ’ in Morgan hill whose ‘ heroin ’ sparked off the research in the first place . |
| 25 | Such cancers are easily treatable with , for example , the photosensitive drugs that prompted the research in the first place : shine red light down the bronchoscope and only the area with the tumour need be zapped . |
| 26 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 27 | What actually does happen , in most cases , is that either you do not lose the weight in the first place , or , if you do , it is on a difficult diet and when it finishes you get fat once again . |
| 28 | All three are [ in different degrees ] illusions , which make the weight of life bearable — to those of sufficient stature to feel its weight in the first place . |
| 29 | But why did they go for absolute egalitarianism in the first place then ? |
| 30 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |