Example sentences of "them in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The petitioners wanted to know whether a legacy of liberatio to them in the first will could now be held to include debts they had first contracted after the making of the first will ; and whether , if the heirs were to sue them for that , they could be barred by an exceptio doli . |
| 2 | Durrant ran the show against them in the first leg of the ‘ Battle of Britain ’ , forging through from midfield , skipping tackles and spraying passes non-stop . |
| 3 | They held them in the first half of the game and were only 12-10 down after 10 ends . |
| 4 | It was proposed that the trainee nurses would be accommodated in the main building of the institution and the committee recommended a scheme for ten probationers , five of them in the first year . |
| 5 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 6 | I 'd like to see them in the first division . |
| 7 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 8 | There is a North Region branch of the British Agency for Adoption and Fostering in your area , and I suggest you contact them in the first instance . |
| 9 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 10 | He would instruct them in the first instance to threaten to seize the man 's belongings to the value of the money owed . |
| 11 | If you have any complaints , please address them in the first instance to the Warden/Manager who is authorised to deal with them . |
| 12 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 13 | Not so Jack , who appeared to have forgotten that it was his idea to invite them in the first place . |
| 14 | But it could provide the electricity in the factories to build them in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They might be , predictably , so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You lost them in the first place . |
| 26 | The onus lies with them in the first place , because the design of the programmes of study is their responsibility . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 . |