Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] first place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 2 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 3 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 4 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 5 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 6 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 7 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 8 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 9 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 10 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 11 | What was the , what was the point in averaging in the first place ? |
| 12 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 13 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 16 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 17 | If the reason you left nursing in the first place was boredom or disillusionment , it may be that you had drifted into an environment which failed to take advantage of your best qualities . |
| 18 | Agnes Jones 's intense religious fervour , which had led her into nursing in the first place , caused Florence Nightingale some anxiety . |
| 19 | And something like two million people have got to stop doing jobs they should never have been doing in the first place , like er polluting the rivers and the soil and the air , and spying on each other and contributing to the overmanning that there is in East Germany . |
| 20 | If taxes are needed to pay for government spending , why do we need government spending in the first place ? |
| 21 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 22 | Because you , Neil 's already spoken to them about how late th the thing was coming in the first place no and they 've just ignored it ! |
| 23 | This is coupled with a situation where the local authority , having in the first place backed a particular scheme such as mink-farm construction on Trondra , is reluctant to make a U-turn in its attitude for fear of incurring compensation costs . |
| 24 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
| 25 | If you only want the bloody music , whe I , what 's the point of taping in the first place ! |
| 26 | They certainly will not go out of their way to be critical — and if they do they are not worth knowing in the first place ! |
| 27 | Such people are n't worth knowing in the first place . |
| 28 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |
| 29 | He was so depressed , poor boy , at falling in the first place — all Langleys ride as if they were born to it — and then at not being able to return to Cambridge for the last few weeks of term , and his aunt was quite at her wit 's end to know what to do with him . |
| 30 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |