Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the first instance " in BNC.
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1 | Potential applicants are advised to contact in the first instance , the Head of the appropriate academic Department . |
2 | Whatever the government allows in due course by way of contingency arrangements which it intends to permit in the first instance in personal injury cases , it is unlikely to sweep away the need for Legal Aid . |
3 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we set up the National Rivers Authority specifically to respond in the first instance to the sort of pollution incidents to which he refers — this one is a very serious incident . |
4 | Trainee consultants need to appreciate that the procedure of informing an interested school of the different structures that have been found to work well in different settings , and of inviting the school to decide which they might wish to develop in the first instance , is in itself an important part of preparing a supportive climate . |
5 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |