Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 2 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 3 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 4 | Payment quarters mainly reflect visits done in the preceding quarter but also include visits made and claimed for in the first month of the payment quarter . |
| 5 | At the time , the proposal was plausible although , of course , it still ducked the issue of where the spores had come from in the first place . |
| 6 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |
| 7 | I do n't want my house broken into in the first place . |
| 8 | This selection also includes several episodes not dealt with in the first half of this book , but which are an integral part of El Cid 's legend . |
| 9 | Basic genetic analysis and chromosome theory are dealt with in the first year , while biochemical , molecular and physiological aspects of gene action are emphasised in the second year . |
| 10 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 11 | Because had there been no breach , the contract would never have been entered into in the first place and the er plaintiffs will rely upon that erm recent court appeal decision between and er against where the court of appeal indicated that if you are dealing with a case where the plaintiff was saying had there been no breach of contract , this is a transaction we would never have entered in to then the plaintiffs are entitled to recover compensation on that basis . |
| 12 | Explain , with specific examples if possible , how the other factors referred to in the first paragraph ( such as changes in what the law counts as crime , fluctuations in the vigour of the application of the law ) determine or influence the criminal statistics . |
| 13 | This debate re-opens some of the issues that were touched upon in the first chapter concerning the nature of metaphysics and the argument that Ayer acts in a reductionist way by proscribing , in effect , certain interpretations of reality . |
| 14 | However , if this is accepted , then we end up again with the concept of a particular as some kind of a temporally extended " peg " for qualities — a view which the theory was directed against in the first instance . |
| 15 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |