Example sentences of "in the [adj] place [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 2 | Because we have so many cameras I can have for the editing a great many possibilities ; and if we have filmed the music properly in the first place we can already have created some very important effects just with one shot — the violins may have the principal melody with an important counter-melody or harmonic detail in the violas , so we might shoot the passage in such a way that we have the violin bows in the foreground , the conductor , and the violas clearly focused as the third element in the shot . |
| 3 | ‘ In the first place we can never forget the main objective in establishing News on Sunday was not to make money , ’ the Liverpool comrades continued , adding the muddled rider : ‘ It would be lovely to ignore money , but we ca n't . ’ |
| 4 | In the first place we can see a reliance on self-help and often pre-industrial techniques , given new meaning in transformed social circumstances . |
| 5 | In the first place we believe that the argument put forward in the Obair Report about territorial justice ( or rather injustice ) has won widespread acceptance . |
| 6 | In the first place we call the language Anglic and it is spoken by people on worlds all across the universe . |
| 7 | Okay so we could do that in the first place we could say one pizza there well we 've got two pizzas but we 'll let's just concentrate on one , share it between six people . |
| 8 | But if we do n't get into that position in the first place we 'll be out . |
| 9 | But in order for means to be classified as means in the first place they have to be something that we can utilize . |
| 10 | In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of . |
| 11 | If hopes are too high in the first place they have further to fall . |
| 12 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 13 | In the first place they need high temperatures : the mean annual temperature should not fall below 18° C ( 65° F ) , and they grow best with temperatures between 25 and 29° C ( 77 and 84° F ) . |
| 14 | But because they are so efficient at tempting big barbel to bite in the first place I keep trying different ways of fishing with them to try to overcome the problem . |
| 15 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 16 | In the first place I do not know exactly what it was like in all its details . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , because , in the first place I had the radio on , and what with the paraffin stove going — that makes a bit of noise — and a towel round my head … |
| 18 | In the first place I do not accept the representative theory of perception . |
| 19 | And the reason in the first place I did leave the building trade was my hands was breaking out with in industrial disease , see ? |
| 20 | In the first place I consider only a very small , very non-random set of examples , only four of them in any detail . |
| 21 | In the first place I am happy to say I have a most comfortable ship the ‘ Parsee ’ ’ although a small one 350 tons Barque with a commodious poop , no steerage passengers and not more than ten or twelve cabin p[assengers] . |
| 22 | But in the first place I believe we should direct our attentions to unschooled lay usages of the word . |
| 23 | In the first place I felt uneasy with the talk about Apaches and John Russell sitting there . |
| 24 | in the first place I just find it |
| 25 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |
| 26 | Had Darwin known about this you see Darwin could have turned on his critics and said , look , in the first place you 're quite wrong about genetics , there is no or at least there does n't have to be because mutations occur as errors or changes in the base sequences in , in the genetic code . |
| 27 | Well , in the first place you do n't of course , because the , the manifest content may be totally innocent . |
| 28 | And then in the first place you 're getting enough money you can you can bash it away and that 'll pay for your furniture . |
| 29 | In the first place you 've got three companies , A B and C C 's your manufacturer |
| 30 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |