Example sentences of "not in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain is not in the first rank of energy-efficient nations , but , taking 1975 as 100 , the energy requirements backing each unit of GDP fell from 115 in 1970 to 81 in 1987 . |
| 2 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 3 | Foundationalism , viewed quite generally ( though here we must exclude Wittgenstein ) , can be seen as the expression of the empiricist thought that verification and justification , telling whether something is true and backing up one 's claims about what is true , must rely eventually upon the evidence of one 's senses ; not in the first instance , maybe , but at the end of the day . |
| 4 | It is not , at least not in the first instance , the formulation of clear , precise , and coherently related propositions backed up by sufficient evidence and argument . |
| 5 | A wide circulation or advertising the sale does not seem appropriate — at least not in the first instance . |
| 6 | Whites price was obviously done whilst NOT in the first team . |
| 7 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 8 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 9 | ‘ It is also desirable that members of our senior squad not in the first team are able to continue playing at a reasonable level , and they have not been able to do this in the past . ’ |
| 10 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 11 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 12 | Any organic material must inevitably reflect its origin , and can not contain what it was n't in the first place . |