Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , this peculiar combination had a long life and was destined to reappear in the Middle Ages as the Albigensian heresy that flourished for a while in southern France but was eventually crushed in the first quarter of the thirteenth century by the northern French at the command of the most powerful of the medieval Popes , Innocent III . |
| 3 | Sergeant Tom Durrant , Royal Engineers and 1 Commando , was badly wounded in the first exchange of fire as the ML 's commandos and naval crew brought their light weapons to bear on the German destroyer . |
| 4 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 6 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 7 | Built in Hellenistic times this market place was greatly enlarged in the first and second centuries A.D. to become one of the largest in the Roman world . |
| 8 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 9 | The first group were highly cited in the first year after publication , and declined thereafter . |
| 10 | The last buildings to be completed were those of the Banca Commerciale which were only finished in the first quarter of the twentieth-century . |
| 11 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 12 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 13 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 14 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 15 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 16 | Never , ever was the item you desperately needed in the first bag , second bag … |
| 17 | The effect is generally noted in the first week when a gradual reduction in the frequency of wetting is noted . |
| 18 | This is normally found in the first part of sleep ( see below ) . |
| 19 | Moin , nightwatchman , was beaten for pace on the pull-shot , but no declaration came at lunch ( 480 for 5 ) , nor after a rain interruption during which 12 overs were lost , it being believed that the runs were best scored in the first innings , and England would probably have been offered the light soon after their innings commenced . |
| 20 | He had already scored in the first meeting at Roker Park . |
| 21 | This small but experienced professional force , the BEF , was , however , largely destroyed in the first four months of the war . |
| 22 | SOUTH AFRICA were easily beaten in the first one-day international against West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston , Jamaica , yesterday . |
| 23 | This is quite properly reflected in the first signal from $ Corps after Macmillan 's visit , referring to his " advice " that Tolbukhin should be approached about the handing over of the Cossacks . |
| 24 | The right to national self-determination was formally included in the first programme of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) , but was accorded a relatively low priority . |
| 25 | The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) . |
| 26 | Includes every cricketer who has ever played in a first class match in the British Isles . |
| 27 | Only Sidey had ever played in the first team . |
| 28 | There was , therefore , no reason for him to be worried about France , still isolated in the first half of the decade . |
| 29 | This branch was controlled by incorporated companies based in London — a dominance still marked in the first decade of the nineteenth century when City-based firms were responsible for 90 per cent of sums insured . |
| 30 | The use of English was thus significantly more restricted in the first generation than in the second generation , who had generally attended British schools and often had a native-like command of British English . |