Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 2 | Having reviewed the authorities which dealt with the construction of restraint of trade clauses , the court applied the following rules : ( a ) The question of construction should be approached in the first instance without regard to the question of legality or illegality. ( b ) The clause should be construed with reference to the object sought to be obtained . |
| 3 | This liability would fall in the first instance on the resident owner , then the resident tenant and so on . |
| 4 | Of course , public recognition of the need to introduce a smog alert system may increase awareness that air pollution problems are very serious and that stricter long-term pollution control policies are needed to prevent smogs occurring in the first instance . |
| 5 | The deception , trick or ruse that forms the one essential element in the interaction of the fabliau characters is most frequently an impromptu action , very commonly occurring in the first instance as an example of a native cunning attributed to women , an ingenuity in lying and deceit that women have . |
| 6 | In these ‘ policed provinces ’ crime was to be reported in the first instance to headmen who would in turn notify the police of serious offences . |
| 7 | Conference participants agreed that regular meetings would be preceded in the first instance by a meeting in September of arms control experts who would finalize details of an agreement in time for a plenary session scheduled for October . |
| 8 | The preoccupation with the study of artefacts in isolation has a number of causes : the need to provide a chronology ; the absence of frameworks of thought by which grave-goods might be considered in the first instance as part of a mortuary ritual ; and , particularly from the nineteenth century , obsession with artefacts . |
| 9 | Erm , just to remind you , or to draw to your attention , erm , ladies and gentlemen , the fact that the report erm , was considered in the first instance , by your community care advisory sub-committee in September , and subsequently by the joint consultative committee in November . |
| 10 | All applications will be considered in the first instance by one of six regional short listing panels , each regional panel will consist of a professional recruitment consultant and two people independent of government and I shall select those I wish to appoint as members of police authorities from the short list . |
| 11 | In place of vague ideological statements and piecemeal policies the primary sector now needs a substantial programme of professional development and support aimed at enhancing the curriculum expertise of all its primary staff , and targeted in the first instance on those aspects of the curriculum where studies like this have identified the greatest problems . |
| 12 | Enquiries about the availability of these awards should be addressed in the first instance to the Secretary of the Bursaries Committee , Old College , South Bridge , EH8 9YL . |
| 13 | I can see nothing in principle to prevent a contemnor applying to the first instance court to be released from custody on the ground that the failure to serve him with the committal order has kept him in ignorance of the contempts for which he has been imprisoned and that , in the circumstances , justice requires his release . |
| 14 | According to a report in the Neue Zurcher Zeitung of Jan. 10 , 1990 , the European Commission of Human Rights , to which plaintiffs turned in the first instance , had registered 1,445 cases brought by individuals or private organizations in 1989 ( a 40 per cent increase on the previous year ) . |
| 15 | The development of classroom strategies involves the production of a curriculum unit tailored in the first instance to the needs of the specific schools in the study , which deals with issues of sex-stereotyping and women 's work , and aims to expand girls ' occupational horizons . |
| 16 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that more could be done in the first instance to prevent offences ? |
| 18 | Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would most likely be ‘ schizoaffective psychosis ’ , precipitated in the first instance by childbirth . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The database — built in the first instance on information provided by the Industrial Liaison office , the Principal 's Office , Napier University Ventures Ltd , the Development Office and the Enterprise Centre — became generally available on the University computer network in March 1993 . |
| 21 | Where there is a committee , it is that committee from whom sanction must be sought in the first instance . |
| 22 | Within manufacture , the precise form of division depends in the first instance on the historical precursors of the capitalistic form of production in the given branch of industry — whether the ‘ manufacturer ’ ( a ) draws together previously separate trades into one workshop to produce a common product or ( b ) splits up a previously unified craft production process into its component tasks . |
| 23 | I think that teachers need to know people that they can turn to for further advice , but that they could familiarize themselves much more with what , as it were , they can do in the first instance by screening children , by using there are number of published materials , learning inventories , that can be used to discover whether a child has some difficulties that might point in this direction of dyslexia . |
| 24 | Enquiries should be made in the first instance to the Academic Registrar . |
| 25 | The decision should be made in the first instance as if it were easy to be made . |
| 26 | Contact is made in the first instance with the manager nominated by the vendor 's representative . |
| 27 | Firstly , how did this extraordinary mistake came to be made in the first instance by the Department of Transport . |
| 28 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 29 | Effort and application were not needed in the first instance and did not come easily when the need arose . |
| 30 | Monthly mailings are no use at all , and ideas are needed in the first instance rather than completed material . |