Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 32 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 33 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 34 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 35 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 36 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 37 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 38 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 39 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 40 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 41 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 42 | Premier John Major and Japan 's foreign minister were yesterday among the first to remind Clinton of America 's responsibilities . |
| 43 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 44 | Croatia , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Hungary , Poland and Slovenia were also among the first countries to recognize Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 45 | Recognizing amongst the life-filled Indonesian islands a way of being and mind as alien as it was complementary to Western thought , Wallace 's writings were also amongst the first to gleam with an enlightened futurism . |
| 46 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 47 | They were midway through the first show and just about everyone was out on stage , giving ten minutes of comparative quiet before another storm of quick-changes and running repairs . |
| 48 | ‘ I do n't expect miracles from him after being out of the first team for seven weeks . |
| 49 | There was evidently no absolute labour shortage , if only because the reserve armies of the rural population ( at home and abroad ) were now for the first time advancing en masse upon the industrial labour markets . |
| 50 | The purist bookman wants his book complete with the half-titles , if they were there in the first place , and it is an appreciable demerit mark if the cataloguer has to confess ‘ lacking half-titles ’ or ‘ volume III without half-title ’ , even though they are present in the other two . |
| 51 | Young people under RCM care were therefore among the first to qualify for release . |
| 52 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 53 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 54 | But that 's only in the first year , in the second year erm the percentage will reduce quite rapidly and we 're only spending half the second and third years . |
| 55 | ‘ That 's enough for the first time . ’ |
| 56 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 57 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |
| 58 | In the Tchaikovsky , the second phrase is not unlike the first . |
| 59 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 60 | fourth one is just like the first one . |