Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone interested in seeking educational assistance to help further their career should contact their line manager or personnel department in the first instance . |
| 2 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 3 | In my Bill , for which I seek a Second Reading today , the provision is that Parliament should be elected by the single transferable vote in the first instance , but thereafter , in subsequent elections , Parliament should be free to determine its own electoral system as long as that is consistent with the principles of proportionality . |
| 4 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 5 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 6 | Application should be made to the district judge in the first instance ( Ord 13 , r 1(6) ) . |
| 7 | Anybody in this position should contact the Bar Council in the first instance . |
| 8 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 9 | If someone who is offered an obviously forged check believes that if the issue is litigated a court will lay down a rule denying recovery for the future and apply that rule against him , he will not take the check in the first instance , and society will have the benefit of the better rule without actually paying the costs of litigation or incurring the disadvantages of bad commercial practice before the case is litigated . |
| 10 | In that different method we frame our question in the first instance as a question about corporate responsibility . |
| 11 | It was not designed as a dwelling place in the first instance . |
| 12 | It is also important to look at why you took up the job in the first instance , even if 20 years have elapsed in the meantime . |
| 13 | But that was purely in the alternative to a public inquiry in the first instance with the possibility of alternative means of disposal coming forward and being accepted . |
| 14 | To remind you , it was I who scraped together your passage-money in the first instance . |
| 15 | Hand signals can be developed to a greater extent to train a dog which is deaf , although there is always the problem of attracting its attention in the first instance , particularly if it runs off . |
| 16 | The Bureau was established at the University of Warwick on 1 September 1983 with a contract for a four year period in the first instance . |
| 17 | Where a plaintiff in the first instance desires to have an account taken , the particulars must state the amount which the plaintiff claims subject to the taking of the account , and if no such amount is stated , the plaintiff will be deemed to claim £5,000 ( Ord 6 , r 2 ) . |
| 18 | FOUR Guatemalan police officers were found guilty on 28 April , 1992 of the murder of thirteen-year-old street child Nahaman Carmona Lopez and sentenced by the Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance to imprisonment terms of between 12 and 18 years . |
| 19 | The new trial was reopened before the Juzgado Quinto de Primera Instancia Penal de Sentencia ( Fifth Criminal Sentencing Court of the First Instance ) , and new evidence admitted which led to a guilty verdict . |
| 20 | After such strong expressions of opinion , I doubt much whether any judge sitting in a court of the first instance would be justified in treating the question as open . |
| 21 | But as this has very seldom , if at all , been the ground of the decision even in a court of the first instance , and certainly never been the ground of a decision in the Court of Exchequer Chamber , still less in this House , I did think it open in your Lordships ' House to reconsider this question . |
| 22 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
| 23 | Other cases have established the principle that a stronger case is needed to justify action to bring about the discontinuance of a use than would be needed to warrant a refusal of permission in the first instance . |
| 24 | The general aim was to hand these problems over , if only at a conceptual level in the first instance , to the North and South Devon district management teams . |
| 25 | Lord Salmon said he could find no sensible basis for the " astonishing " proposition that the valuer should be liable for negligence in the first instance , but not in the second . |
| 26 | Except by special permission candidates shall not bring written , printed or similar material to their examination places , and any candidate found to be in possession of such unauthorised material shall be reported to the Secretary of the University in the first instance . |
| 27 | Change can come about in educational institutions without the change necessarily centring on the curriculum in the first instance , although the curriculum may subsequently be affected . |
| 28 | In the county court , apart from the judge 's own note , there will only be the lawyer 's notes of the decision , and there will also be a written decision from the first instance tribunal . |
| 29 | There is no need for the prosecution in the first instance to provide evidence of anything more . |
| 30 | The metalinguistic proposal ( Goodman , 1965 ) , so named because , at any rate in the first instance , it presents conditionals as being about other linguistic entities , is along the following lines . |