Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took his word for it and we left , glad to be free of the ghastly place . |
| 2 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 5 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 6 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 7 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | That 's wrong in the first place . |
| 12 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 13 | It cuts down a , er , er , risk which is perhaps not that high in the first place . |
| 14 | The predefinition is manifest in the first place in the planning literature produced by the Shetland Islands Council , specifically the Shetland Structure Plan published in 1976 . |
| 15 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 16 | The centre-right candidate , Mr Fernando Collor now seems assured of the other place . |
| 17 | Although I was sad to say goodbye to Bessie , I was both excited and nervous about the new places I would see , and the new people I would meet . |
| 18 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 19 | Because everything was handmade , er all the holes in the er timbers , they had to be carefully er marked out so that y er when they went to the wood machines there was a er they would be bored in the right place , and the right size of holes . |
| 20 | A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ? |
| 21 | Even if anyone could escape from the fuselage — which I think would be impossible in the first place — they 'd die soon after surfacing . |
| 22 | The LTA were clearly ill-advised in the first place to have increased the prize money for Birmingham this year . |
| 23 | Meanwhile World Films Corporation 's The Better Woman has a poor uneducated girl who lives in a mining town cheating her way into marriage with a young engineer and then surviving all kinds of guilt and adventure before proving ( in the words of the release summary ) that ‘ a girl , starting life under a heavy handicap , could be worthy of the highest place in the affection of an educated high-bred man ’ . |
| 24 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 25 | The dress was tight in the right places , and shiny where it should n't have been . |
| 26 | If circumstances such as time and place are relevant to the question whether the conduct is disorderly in the first place , what sorts of factors should the court ( or the policeman on the spot ) take into account in deciding whether or not the conduct was ‘ reasonable ’ ? |
| 27 | Engineering and other standards are valuable in the first place as structured communication . |
| 28 | Preventive health measures which tackle the cause of why people are becoming sick in the first place could save vast sums of public money which are being wasted by the National Health Service treating the symptoms . |
| 29 | And so he was flabby , soft in the wrong places , and short of stamina . |
| 30 | The troubles of the spirit are not always translated into the grosser medium of the flesh , but if I could not make this transfer with Miller then there would be no point in making him ill in the first place . |