Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 32 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |
| 33 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 34 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 35 | Who wanted the job done in the first place ? ’ |
| 36 | So I did what I should have done in the first place , I put the wire hangers and small weights on the edges . |
| 37 | UTILITY — A small program which will do a single , simple job ; often performing a function that Windows ought to have done in the first place . |
| 38 | ‘ Probably what I should have done in the first place . |
| 39 | Which you would have done in the first place , Lowell thought , if you had n't been so sure that Rose was here . |
| 40 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 41 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 42 | Prop Grant Wilson will be seeking to emulate the deeds of his Boroughmuir colleague , Peter Wright , who was also third choice in the eyes of the selectors for the French game in Paris , but who then went on to prove he should have been selected in the first place . |
| 43 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 44 | The nature of the ‘ causes ’ identified by the different approaches , in other words , reflected very clearly the way the enquiry was framed in the first place . |
| 45 | He was Jacob Hart , 12 , who was responsible for Hook , Stephen Spielberg 's £65 million modern Peter Pan story , being written in the first place . |
| 46 | Indeed , is this not what you advised in the first place ? |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 50 | Rather it is a socially constructed form whose ‘ influence ’ depends on how it was shaped in the first place . |
| 51 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 52 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 53 | Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place . |
| 54 | The answer to such questions depends in the first place upon what we mean by ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 55 | The two who came in the first place . |
| 56 | What was the , what was the point in averaging in the first place ? |
| 57 | In addition , a challenge may be issued by a person who is prosecuted with one of the offences to be considered that the conditions were improperly imposed in the first place . |
| 58 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 59 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 60 | ‘ Why was this baby kidnapped in the first place ? ’ |