Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 2 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 3 | Or was the metal never applied in the first place ? |
| 4 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never got beyond the first two or three rounds . ’ |
| 6 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 7 | Although education is compulsory from age seven to 14 in theory , almost half the children in public schools never get beyond the first year and only one per cent continue to higher education . |
| 8 | Indeed , the tradition of personal contact between the Council and the public , the accessibility of local government officials , and the identifiable nature of the officials and councillors involved , gave the whole thing a highly personal tone to the point where some of the wider issues were obscured , or else never raised in the first place . |
| 9 | The strained atmosphere never survived beyond the first trickling bouquet from the roasting bird , stuffed pot-bellied with chestnuts . |
| 10 | erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place . |
| 11 | Some never go beyond the first . |
| 12 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 13 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 14 | Lovers never do on the first night . |
| 15 | It 's as if I 've wasted my life searching for something that was never lost in the first place . |
| 16 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 17 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |