Example sentences of "[adj] in the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hybrid Tea bush types After attending to the basics or primary aspects — removing completely all dead , diseased and feeble wood ( you wo n't find much of this in the first year ) — seek to prune to outward-pointing buds that will grow out along the line of growth , not sideways , so that this growth leads to an open cup or shuttlecock shape . |
| 2 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 3 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
| 4 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 5 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 6 | Newcastle are 12 points clear in the First Division and Keegan added : ‘ There have been massive changes here and we 're beginning to reap the rewards already . |
| 7 | Lindemann , who was third in the 1989 World Cup Final , also has Abound qualified here , and rode this one clear in the first warm-up , and then withdrew him . |
| 8 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 9 | O tonnes per day on-line in the first half of this year . |
| 10 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 11 | CHRIS WILKINSON gave both himself and Jeremy Bates a massive pre-Wimbledon lift when he beat Argentinian left-hander Javier Frana 7–5 6–4 in the first round of the Direct Line Insurance Manchester Open at Didsbury . |
| 12 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 13 | Over the last five years , the number of centres entering candidates for National Certificate has grown steadily and , over the same period , the number of modules in the catalogue has risen from around 700 in the first year of operation to around 2500 this year . |
| 14 | From an initial 700 in the first season , bookings rose rapidly to 26,000 by 1931 . |
| 15 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 16 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 17 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 18 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 20 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 21 | Look here — you 've done wrong twice over : what you said was wrong in the first place ; but then you failed to carry out your promise ! |
| 22 | That 's wrong in the first place . |
| 23 | Mortality is relatively high in the first year of life and then decreases during childhood ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 24 | The quality of football was high in the first half . |
| 25 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 26 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 27 | It cuts down a , er , er , risk which is perhaps not that high in the first place . |
| 28 | Fiji 's team was a second strength team but they were still too good , running away 22–10 victors over Australia Green after trailing 10–0 in the first half . |
| 29 | The recalled Hooper was relatively untroubled in the first period , only being called into serious action to turn aside a Beschastnikh freekick . |
| 30 | ICI will be able to stop manufacturing CFCs 11 and 12 in the first quarter of next year , having secured supplies for its remaining customers through a deal with Akzo . |