Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toys mean little in the first few weeks — you are all your baby needs . |
| 2 | This example of evaluation is related to the parameters laid down in the first part of the chapter . |
| 3 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 4 | Divinity degrees require some study in each of the departments listed below in the first two years of the course . |
| 5 | Seymour committed suicide on 20 Apr. 1836 ; his illustrations appear only in the first two parts of PP ( Apr. , May 1836 ) . |
| 6 | The bill , the most draconian to have been passed by any state , prohibited abortion in cases other than to save a woman 's life or in cases of rape ( if reported within five days ) or incest , where abortion would be permitted only in the first 13 weeks . |
| 7 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 8 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 9 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 10 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 11 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 12 | It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years . |
| 13 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 14 | Analyses of covariance were carried out in the first study , and t tests were used in the second study . |
| 15 | Donna shivered and decided to head back to the car , not even sure why she had come here in the first place . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't ask you to come here in the first place , and I certainly did n't ask for your help out here . |
| 17 | The possibility of getting that accommodation encourages many refugees to come here in the first place . |
| 18 | I nearly crashed twice in the first lap . |
| 19 | It 's important not to lose your security of tenure in council accommodation — which is so hard to come by in the first place — by making yourself " voluntarily homeless ' . |
| 20 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 21 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 22 | I got excuse me , put down in the first eleven for hockey . |
| 23 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 24 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 25 | The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War . |
| 26 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 27 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 28 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 29 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 30 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |