Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | So in the first instance a sharp rise in oil prices necessitates an increased demand for dollars , but whether this is maintained depends very much on the decisions of OPEC countries . |
| 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 | Note that we are not here trying to derive models for designing — or at least not in the first instance . |
| 7 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 8 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 9 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 10 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |
| 11 | obviously but I think you need clearly in the first instance to use that |
| 12 | As making the parliamentary channel available in Members ' rooms would be tantamount to supplying a clean feed direct from the Chamber , it would be for the Select Committee on Broadcasting , Etc. in the first instance , to approve such a proposal . |
| 13 | The need to deal effectively in the first instance in communications with Council Tax payers , both face to face and in writing , and hence the seniority of staff required for this purpose . |
| 14 | The stiff rein indicates that the horse is not carrying or pushing as much with that inside hind leg and so it is easier for him to shy ( and so stop going forward ) , if he is not working as well in the first instance . |
| 15 | A limited contract for a few sessions , at least in the first instance , is always preferable . |
| 16 | They write of the purpose behind the Nottinghamshire teams as involving the explicit premise that casework and service coordination at the level of individual clients should logically take second place to the creation of more adequate service infrastructure — at least in the first instance ( Wistow and Wray , p 16 ) Developmental teams of the Notts kind , then , might be expected to place priority on establishing a range of new services , " accommodation services , adult placement schemes , family support services , play schemes , parent groups and Further Education courses " ( Wray and Wistow , op cit ) . |
| 17 | Soviet forces were not , at least in the first instance , to be withdrawn unconditionally . |
| 18 | But is n't there a sense in which people in other countries really have to help themselves , at least in the first instance ? |
| 19 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 20 | Rule 1(a) stipulates that the offer must be put forward in the first instance to the board of the target company or its advisers . |
| 21 | One of the most common patterns of establishing chains of reference in English and a number of other languages is to mention a participant explicitly in the first instance , for example by name or title , and then use a pronoun to refer back to the same participant in the immediate context . |