Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] first instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dicey felt able to boil the British constitution down to " one essential principle " : " obedience by all persons to the deliberately expressed will of the House of Commons in the first instance and ultimately to the will of the nation as expressed through Parliament . " |
| 2 | The legislation applied to the three Baltic republics and ( under a separate provision ) Belorussia in the first instance ; some regions of the Russian Republic indicated that they too would seek to place their relations with the central government on this new basis . |
| 3 | Funds will be available for these centres ( and in particular for Oxford in the first instance ) from the European Studies Fund , a trust established within the University to which generous donations have already been made , including funds for a five-year professorial level appointment as Director of the Institute . |
| 4 | General enquiries should be addressed to CFSU in the first instance . |
| 5 | Applications for relaxation of those parts of the Building Regulations dealing with fire precautions are made in England and Wales in the first instance to the Local Authority . |