Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] in [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 2 | As part of its future direction , ADDS previewed a 3270/X software package for migrating 3270 users to NCR 's Open Cooperative Computing Architecture beginning in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 3 | Squashed between the driver and the mechanic on top of the engine housing in the first truck , we found ourselves in the role of unwitting umpires , keeping the two men from each other 's throats . |
| 4 | This is hot enough for fusion to occur but so far they have been unable to confine the hot plasma long enough and at high enough densities to generate more energy from fusion than is used to keep the machine working in the first place . |
| 5 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 6 | The importance of this should not be missed : one aspect of growing local government spending in the first thirty years after 1945 was that the balance between sources of funding shifted dramatically . |
| 7 | If taxes are needed to pay for government spending , why do we need government spending in the first place ? |
| 8 | I refer to the rapid decline of the use of walnut in English furniture making in the first half of the 18th century . |
| 9 | Sedgemore is the only coalminer playing in the First Division of the Heineken League . |
| 10 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 11 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 12 | Preventive approaches are often classified as primary ( avoiding the abnormality arising in the first place ) , secondary ( early detection and medical treatment , or selective abortion ) , or tertiary ( surgical correction ) . |
| 13 | The medical profession ignored family planning in the first half of the century , only speaking to condemn it . |