Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] in the first " in BNC.

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1 Let's begin by looking at how to connect the Macintosh and the PC together in the first place .
2 Now Witney Town are in action tonight in the first round , first leg of the Southern League Cup against Gloucester ; special guest tonight will be the Sheffield Wednesday manager , Ron Atkinson .
3 In May 1987 with the club still in the first and the accounts showing a profit , Robert Maxwell , under fire for his involvement in other clubs like Watford and Derby County , handed chairmanship to his son Kevin .
4 Together , the pair devised a series of three-year plans — the first was to put the club back in the first division , the second to get the club established in the top third of the table .
5 Alan Johnson put the home side ahead in the first half with Kevin Langley and Gary Worthington adding further goals after the interval .
6 If there has been no solid social formation there in the first place , it follows that the child can very easily be completely out of control at an early age and almost impossible to reclaim .
7 TWO SERB soldiers accused of war crimes went on trial yesterday in the first attempt by Bosnia 's Muslim authorities to bring alleged perpetrators of atrocities to justice .
8 But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident .
9 Hawthorn took the lead early in the first quarter and the Cats then had to play catch-up .
10 The former skipper had the misfortune of conceding the own-goal which gave Swindon a play-off victory at Wembley two years ago but he still led the team out in the First Division the next season .
11 The two sides will also be meeting again at the same venue tomorrow in the first round of the Augustus Barnet Cup .
12 Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year .
13 She wished she had not put the lamp on in the first place because she was sure he would be able to fathom out how she felt .
14 But I mean would that is the the the sort of the thing I would like to put an em emphasis on in the first half of the term .
15 For he later wrote the enigmatic poem To a Sea-cliff ( Durlston Head ) with its suggestion of estrangement even in the first year of their married life .
16 Kristeva 's own voice is recorded in this volume only in the first of the essays , ‘ The Adolescent Novel ’ , but each of the subsequent pieces variously addresses aspects of her work .
17 On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half .
18 Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half .
19 Liverpool 's defeat , which threatens to prevent them finishing in the top five for the first time since their initial season back in the First Division 30 years ago , was again due to the unpredictable goalkeeping of Grobbelaar .
20 And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding …
21 Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot .
22 I do n't quite know why they put that edge on in the first place .
23 Canterbury beat CD twice in the first half of the competition , first by three wickets on a dubious pitch in the initial first-class match at Burnside Park , Christchurch .
24 GEI International , the packaging machinery and special wire and cutting steels manufacturer , lifted profit again in the first half of the year .
25 On the DEC PDP-10 computer , subroutine call instructions are provided for saving the return address either in the first location of a subroutine or in an accumulator ; but it also has call and return instructions which treat a specified area of store as a return address stack , in a manner similar to that described earlier in this section .
26 South Shields found themselves having to rely on a mix-up in the defence late in the first half to let Gary Davies in to give them the lead at the interval .
27 Investment in mainland China continued to grow , with US$540,000,000 flowing to Fujian province alone in the first quarter of 1990 .
28 If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place .
29 Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter .
30 I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place .
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