Example sentences of "they in [art] first place " in BNC.
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1 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
2 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
3 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
4 | This section of the book is designed to help you come to terms with your deepest emotions and the people or events which may have caused them in the first place . |
5 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
6 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
7 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |
8 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
9 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
10 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
11 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
12 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
13 | You lost them in the first place . |
14 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
15 | As Hill ( 1983 , p. 124 ) observes , the ‘ attacks on Quangos have obscured , rather than illuminated , the serious issue of how ministerial patronage might be replaced by alternative selection procedures , and how these bodies might be made more accountable , without losing that very semi-independence which was a major reason for establishing them in the first place ’ . |
16 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
17 | Who knows what the exact situation will be and what problems will arise as those changes are forced upon the Scottish people who did not want them in the first place ? |
18 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
19 | ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’ |
20 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
21 | But that still does n't tell me why you 're wearing them in the first place , does it ? ’ she grinned . |
22 | Using this last possibility , Spenser implies that the English acting firmly against Ireland might demonstrate that they have purified the fault which was going to cause Ireland to scourge them in the first place , namely a tameness in executing God 's designs against savage immorality . |
23 | ‘ They 'll never understand why I did n't go to them in the first place . |
24 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
25 | I am not arguing therefore that metaphors should not change , but that it is impossible for us to change them organically unless we understand them in the first place . |
26 | that wh who in the government would he dispose of and he sat and smiled gently and said well he would n't have appointed any of them in the first place . |
27 | David does n't want them in the first place and he wo n't argue , I 've discussed it with Robin he wo n't argue , erm Richard who 's the only one that could really be regarded as a loser dare n't argue 'cos it 's his report that recommends we they come back to us , and John wo n't understand the item so I think we 're alright there . |
28 | the best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
29 | ‘ The best way to solve pollution problems is not to create them in the first place . |
30 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |