Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick explained it should be stiff enough in the first place in order to stay up , achieved with the help of a product like the one he 'd just used . |
| 2 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 4 | Why had n't he said so in the first place ? |
| 5 | They have done so in the first place because of the advantage of high space utilization on limited ground area ; an important asset to companies trying to make the best use of a high value industrial site with no room for extension . |
| 6 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 7 | Well , why did n't you say so in the first place ? ’ |
| 8 | Critics believe there 'd be no need to build such expensive treatment plants to extract nitrates if farmers were given incentives to use less in the first place . |
| 9 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 10 | They drifted apart as casually and amicably as they had drifted together in the first place , with no ill-will on either side . |
| 11 | Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place . |
| 12 | And what on earth were you doing in that closet together in the first place ? ’ |
| 13 | And should never have been brought together in the first place . |
| 14 | Mm , but what I ca n't weigh up is there 's nothing wrong together in the first place |
| 15 | And alas , I thought , my penitential journey over , they did n't do it separately in the first place . |
| 16 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 17 | Arm and back heights too , can be varied since they have to be built separately in the first place , and there is almost always a large range of covers available for the choosing within the price range . |
| 18 | The room should be very warm and draught-free ; chilled muscles contract , causing a release of adrenalin — something you are trying to soothe away in the first place . |
| 19 | Uncles and aunts were likely to be out of touch with what was happening to their family on the continent , and sometimes there were tensions and disagreements which had caused them to move away in the first place . |
| 20 | Without engaging in processes such as these , nobody would have been able to create the procedures and systems mentioned above in the first place . |
| 21 | But it is the husband who is responsible for paying it and who must acquire the money from outside in the first place . |
| 22 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 23 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 24 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 27 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 28 | Half of them did n't , they were up illegally in the first place , working the under-side of the system , the jobs nobody wants . |
| 29 | I do not criticise them for getting it wrong in the first place . |
| 30 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |