Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students . |
| 2 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 3 | Model conversations are intended in the first instance , for mimicry-memorization , to help the student to use freely the common expressions in the language . |
| 4 | Yes I mean basically we need to first of all decide , I think this is what we 're deciding in the first instance , which option for the provision of information you find the most helpful . |
| 5 | So we 're having in the first instance |
| 6 | The agency will ensure that resources made available by reductions in defence spending — reductions already planned by the Conservative government — are used in the first instance for rebuilding and investing in our manufacturing base . |
| 7 | One way around this particular problem would be to adapt the approach recommended by the Canadian Sentencing Commission ( 1997 ) , in which guide-lines are used in the first instance simply to indicate offences for which the presumptive sentence would ( or would normally ) involve a community sanction , and those which would ( or would normally ) involve a custodial penalty . |
| 8 | Monthly mailings are no use at all , and ideas are needed in the first instance rather than completed material . |