Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the neighbours want the hole moved to where it should have been in the first place . |
| 2 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 3 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 4 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 5 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 6 | If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place . |
| 7 | They were in the first place monotheists . |
| 8 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 9 | ‘ The Association is not a universal provider … its mission … is in the first place to the educationally underprivileged … it must include a substantial body of work sufficiently intensive and prolonged to exercise a permanent influence on students . ’ |
| 10 | The idea that femininity is in the first place to be associated with motherhood is simply writ large . |
| 11 | The interrelations of the meanings and associations of words within a text ( ‘ the dimension of coherence ’ ) is in the first place , one' might say , a purely mental event , but its effect is to modify , enrich or enlarge the reader 's experience of the realities to which these meanings and associations refer . |
| 12 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 13 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 14 | than there was in the first place . |
| 15 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 16 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |