Example sentences of "[art] first instance [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Like the Common Law , the rules of Equity are judicial law , i.e. to find them we must look in the first instances to the decisions of the judges who have administered Equity .
2 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 .
3 Contact should be established in the first instance through the Schools Liaison Officer or the Faculty of Science and Engineering whose addresses are given at the back of this prospectus .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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