Example sentences of "to [noun pl] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desperation that drives the rural poor to cities in the first place is not going to be quenched by water-cannon , police batons , or bulldozers crashing through shanty-towns . |
| 2 | And I 've borrowed money to go out to shops in the first place |
| 3 | O K , so those are the two factors that affect the allocation to units in the first four years . |
| 4 | Personal computers are too fragile to cope with viruses and must be replaced with sophisticated systems which are resilient to viruses in the first place . |
| 5 | And if the breeders reply that it is the puppy dealers ' fault , how could any self-respecting breeder sell puppies to dealers in the first place ? |
| 6 | Airships are not all that easily shot down , a disconcerting fact to pilots in the First World War who expected tracer to ignite hydrogen gas at once . |
| 7 | The poem ends by asking if humans and the world were evolved so that they could be destroyed in war then why did the sun bother to give life to things in the first place as it all seems silly and pointless . |
| 8 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 9 | The company hopes to sell 10,000 to the home market , 10,000 to the small business user and approximately 20,000 to corporates in the first year . |
| 10 | First though I want to see what help and advice it is possible to give to teachers in the first two groups : we will focus on the ‘ destressers ’ in this chapter , and on the ‘ change agents ’ in the next . |
| 11 | United were blown to bits in the first half , as Portsmouth roared into a 3-goal lead . |
| 12 | Silicon Graphics Inc reports that Digital Equipment Corp will be the first company to license its Iris Inventor object-oriented three-dimensional tool kit , which will be available to licensees in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | During the school year 1990–1 , further developments are to take place : pupils at a new Key Stage ( 2 ) are to be introduced to the three core subjects ; a new subject ( design and technology ) is to be introduced to pupils in the first three key stages ; and for the first time , pupils ( at Key Stage 1 ) are to face assessment . |
| 14 | It will only be available to women in the first nine weeks of pregnancy ( that 's the only licence for which the makers have asked ) , so not all women who could benefit from it will do so . |
| 15 | These observations are converted to probabilities just as the weather data were converted to probabilities in the first example . |
| 16 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |