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The phrase "an instruction to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a directive or command that is intended to guide someone's actions.
Example: "The manual provides an instruction to ensure the device is turned off before maintenance."
Alternatives: "a directive to" or "a guideline to".
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Or maybe it was just an instruction to carry out a particular experiment.
"This was an instruction to me that the work couldn't be done in shorthand," she says.
Similarly, government departments and agencies needed something more creative than an instruction to cap salary increases.
They're just nothings, then — an instruction to go somewhere for the sake of it.
"All right," he hears Baxter say, which is an instruction to his companions.
In Wall Street language, that was an instruction to buy 30-year bonds right away.
Later, during the installation process, there was an instruction to close all Windows programs.
Quite the opposite, in fact: the electorate had given the Tories an instruction to deliver.
But the mingling of the tenses sounded like an instruction to the judge.
United were also clearly sent out with an instruction to be more direct and ambitious.
"There has been an instruction to send army people into rural areas.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com