Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] place and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have survived if he had accepted the plan in the first place and done what the Corporation had wanted him to do instead of putting forward his own counter proposals . |
| 2 | In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second , I push my hands into my jeans pocket — we are n't supposed to wear jeans at school — and discover some chewing gum , antique but welcome . |
| 3 | The precautionary principle suggests that , as the future damage done by pollution is often more costly than the extra expense of avoiding it in the first place and in any case it is often unacceptable , even if a money cost ca n't be put on it , then prevention is better than cure . |
| 4 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 5 | But the report missed the fact that the republicans , through the Wolfe Tone Societies , had been largely responsible for creating NICRA in the first place and some commentators have accused Cameron of naïveté about republican influence . |
| 6 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm only here for the beer in the first place and , the way I see it , if old skull-face came knocking on my door with his scythe at least I could get my laughing gear around some of that celestial scrumpy ! |
| 8 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
| 9 | Now that you have a clear idea of what regression therapy involves , it is time to look at the sort of problems that cause people to need such therapy — why and how such problems have arisen in the first place and how they can limit people 's lives and potential . |
| 10 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 11 | ‘ We should have turned Jack Stone in in the first place and let the Met boys worry about protecting the family . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 14 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |
| 15 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 16 | Adrian Gozzard , ex-Plessey , also expressed a preference for consultants who took responsibility for all parts of the search , bringing in the business in the first place and the , closely supervising the research . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 19 | It is essential to the association of individuals in the first place and essential to ensure its continuation by sharing codes of behaviour . |
| 20 | Prices had not climbed as fast in the first place and were less dependent on volatile international buying . |
| 21 | We pay the employer as little as possible to take the trainee in the first place and then charge him as much as possible to train the trainee on his behalf . |
| 22 | They thought we misused the system when actually it was expensive in the first place and faulty , " said a middle-aged woman who lives on the estate . |
| 23 | Advertising and public relations can try to improve or change the image of a client but this is always limited by the nature of how the reputation was built and earned in the first place and how the client will really act in the future . |
| 24 | Why is it — perhaps you can enlighten me — why is it , for example , they roast topside of beef in the first place and in the second cook it to the consistency of baked cow-pat ? ’ |
| 25 | But how did ‘ race ’ come to occupy a place in post-war British education in the first place and what were its terms of entry ? |
| 26 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 27 | He had n't been offered the part in the first place and was more than content in the role of Smee . |
| 28 | Again it should be emphasised that many sufferers never receive counselling ( except from a sponsor ) or go into residential treatment in the first place and that residential treatment centres have no place other than to help sufferers remove blocks to their understanding of the principles of recovery of the . |
| 29 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 30 | The second view would point to the fact that in reality it is the Prime Minister who , in setting the agenda for Cabinet discussion , decides what is to be discussed in the first place and consequently has power . |