Example sentences of "[prep] the first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loser should remain liable for the first instance costs , which would have been incurred in any event . |
| 2 | FOUR Guatemalan police officers were found guilty on 28 April , 1992 of the murder of thirteen-year-old street child Nahaman Carmona Lopez and sentenced by the Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance to imprisonment terms of between 12 and 18 years . |
| 3 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 4 | After such strong expressions of opinion , I doubt much whether any judge sitting in a court of the first instance would be justified in treating the question as open . |
| 5 | But as this has very seldom , if at all , been the ground of the decision even in a court of the first instance , and certainly never been the ground of a decision in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , still less in this House , I did think it open in your Lordships ' House to reconsider this question . |
| 6 | With the first instance , we touch on the mysteries of death ; we should be careful not to make too much of the Great Mother as a goddess of birth and death ; she is not the originator of these but rather the one who shapes the coming and guides the going of each life . |
| 7 | In the county court , apart from the judge 's own note , there will only be the lawyer 's notes of the decision , and there will also be a written decision from the first instance tribunal . |
| 8 | Theoretically , most referees are supposed to look for full points in the first instance and half-points afterwards . |
| 9 | If you do not provide the information requested for registration , this could lead to a fine of £50 in the first instance , and then £200 if you still do not comply . |
| 10 | In the first instance he made money from his business . |
| 11 | It certainly is erotic , but is perhaps better described , following Eve Sedgwick , as homosocial desire , if only , in the first instance , to avoid the easy but questionable assumption that what we witness here is the irruption of repressed homosexual desire as conceived by Freud . |
| 12 | Camp thereby negotiates some of the lived contradictions of subordination , simultaneously refashioning as a weapon of attack an oppressive identity inherited as subordination , and hollowing out dominant formations responsible for that identity in the first instance . |
| 13 | Callinicos ' defence of classical Marxism , of historical materialism , is in the first instance deployed against a postmodernism which has come to proclaim the death of the grand narrative of emancipation and the need for a new form of politics not constructed along the lines of the traditional left . |
| 14 | A part of the Jubilee Appeal funding has enabled Jennie Appleby to take up the half-time paid post of North East Field Officer , for a year in the first instance . |
| 15 | It was ‘ wholly appropriate ’ that information in these circumstances should in the first instance be given in the absence of the public . |
| 16 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 17 | In Bucharest as in Pyongyang , it may well be that severe repression can in the first instance only be challenged by a well-aimed bullet . |
| 18 | Born in 1986 in Cardiff , it has spread across Europe and to North and South America and , as the author says in her introduction , ‘ has also shifted focus from experimental theatre in the first instance to all forms of theatre in which women are involved ’ . |
| 19 | It was not designed as a dwelling place in the first instance . |
| 20 | They established that , in the first instance , shipowners would automatically meet the cost of oil spills , through insurance cover which they would be obliged to carry ; but the owners ' liability was to be limited to a maximum of $18m . |
| 21 | When property passes on death , it will go in the first instance to the executor appointed by will , or the administrator appointed by the court , who are charged with the duty of dealing with it and transferring it to the persons entitled ( see p. 114 ) . |
| 22 | Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 . |
| 23 | It vests in the first instance in ‘ personal representatives ’ , namely the executor appointed by the will , or where there is no will or no executor appointed under the will , in the administrator — usually a person interested in the property — appointed by the court . |
| 24 | The executor or administrator , whose duties in many ways resemble those of a trustee , must in the first instance discharge the funeral expenses , the cost ( including the payment of inheritance tax ) of obtaining probate of the will or ‘ letters of administration ’ , and the debts of the deceased . |
| 25 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 26 | Hitler 's image , however , stood apart from this : ‘ For many of these young ones , the Führer is not the representative of the Party , but in the first instance Führer of the State and above all Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht . ’ |
| 27 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 28 | The Green Book claims universality , and so names no names ; but it is also a book written in the first instance for Libyans , to encourage them to create popular democracy . |
| 29 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 30 | He is recommending Rank Organisation 8¼ p.c. ( down 1 at 103p ) , Carlton Communications 6½ p.c. ( steady at 84p ) and Queens Moat 7½ p.c. ( ½ weaker at 95½p ) in the first instance , together with British Land 6⅝ p.c. ( down £1 at £74 ) for those wanting a spicy play on the property sector . |