Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are developing an artist on an international basis , success does n't necessarily happen in the first or second album . |
| 2 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 3 | Then overnight they redraft them because they did n't really matter in the first place . |
| 4 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 5 | erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place . |
| 6 | What were these what was the sales area of the how much sales area did you actually release in the first half and how much do you expect to go in the second ? |