Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place . |
| 2 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 3 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |
| 4 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 5 | Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ? |
| 6 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 7 | If someone 's natural breathing is already shallow , that person is much more likely to panic in the first place . |
| 8 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 9 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 10 | ( If they sound a little harassed , please bear in mind that they are new to the system and so may take a little longer to respond in the first few weeks of live running . ) |
| 11 | To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |
| 13 | Neither Hugh Dundas , his wife ( who is my sister ) , nor their American partner Don Tafner were at all keen to run in the first place . |
| 14 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 15 | Beside them , the modern tractor sheds and dairies looked ready to collapse in the first breeze . |