Example sentences of "[be] [adv] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 2 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |
| 3 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 4 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 5 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 6 | Support for DEC 's Alpha Windows NT will be out in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 7 | The company , which was to have introduced a mid-range , 80486-based TC1000 series of fault-tolerant systems earlier this year ( UX No 378 ) , says they 'll also be out in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 8 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
| 9 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 10 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 13 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 14 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 15 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 16 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 26 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 27 | The young MFI salesman who is only concerned in making sure the commission on your purchase accrues to him , not his colleague , has forgotten why he is there in the first place . |
| 28 | The first step is to check what is there in the first place . |
| 29 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 30 | The level of British farming declined sharply and it was only in the first decade of the twentieth century that it began to get on its feet again by shifting its emphasis to specialities like beef-fattening and vegetable-growing . |