Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] in [art] first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to protect the public from the charlatan or the quack , entry into the profession must be guarded , its standards polic-ed , and its rules of practice defined in the first instance by the profession itself … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On the one hand it was essential to try to make the peasant movement more revolutionary in character by uniting the peasants and all the exploited , wherever possible , into Soviets ; on the other , the obligation to render the most active assistance to revolutionary-liberation movements rested in the first instance with the workers of the country on which the backward nation was colonially and financially dependent . |
| 4 | It is , then , unsafe to generalise as Lyons does that : ‘ until modern methods of sound recording were developed ( a ) the inscription of language utterances on durable materials provided a more reliable means of transmission than memory and oral reproduction ’ and ( b ) that this was ‘ recognised to be so in the western tradition in which literacy developed in the first instance for this purpose ’ ( 1982 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Time and again in England and Wales , the company that bought the bus undertaking in the first instance proved to be only a halfway house to resales , mergers and splits , and all the time the very last consideration was for the interests of the travelling public . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 11 | Drifting into the Colonial Office because deafness prevented him from taking up a career in the regular army , he brought with him a romantic conception of empire stimulated in the first instance by Kitchener 's Omdurman campaign and encouraged with appropriate reading matter by his father . |
| 12 | Childebert survived in the first instance because of the loyalty of his father 's followers , and later because of the intervention of his uncle Guntram . |