Example sentences of "[modal v] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As a result of Section 89 of the Companies Act 1985 , if the Directors wish to allot the unissued shares for cash ( other than pursuant to an employee share scheme ) , they must in the first instance offer them to existing shareholders in proportion to their holdings . |
| 4 | Liabilities must in the first instance be met from the partnership property . |
| 5 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 6 | It must in the first place be said that there was probably nothing particularly exceptional about Jesus ' behaviour and attitudes towards women . |
| 7 | Study of the examples will show that in order to simulate the behaviour of a system one must in the first instance understand it . |
| 8 | Any restriction on the media , to be valid , must in the first place be justified by a " pressing social need , " and then , even if the social need is pressing , the restriction must be reasonably proportionate to the aim of responding to that need . |
| 9 | It was ‘ wholly appropriate ’ that information in these circumstances should in the first instance be given in the absence of the public . |
| 10 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 11 | Contact with the Trade Finance manager should in the first instance be made through your account holding Branch Manager . |
| 12 | Under the Data Protection Act you are entitled , subject to certain limitations , to know what data about yourself is held on computer and , if you wish to exercise this right , you should in the first instance approach the Personnel Department . |
| 13 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 14 | What may in the first instance be attributed to physical causes and treated by an herbalist may , if it persists or grows more severe , be redefined as caused by mystical forces requiring treatment by a diviner ( see Horton 1970 : 142 ) . |
| 15 | A candidate using or attempting to use unfair means in an examination or other form of assessment shall in the first instance be reported to the Secretary of the University . |
| 16 | 12.1 In the event of any dispute or difference arising between any of the Parties concerning this Agreement or the construction or performance thereof , such dispute or difference shall in the first instance be referred to the Project Manager whose decision shall be final and binding on the Parties unless with 14 days after such decision any one of the Parties shall have notified the others of his dissatisfaction with such decision . |
| 17 | Hence not all directions for a given link are permissible although we shall in the first instance assume that they are , that is , that a chain can pass through itself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |