Example sentences of "example of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 2 | Gombrich 's book is a fine example of a survey , ambitious in scope , clear-sighted in its emphasis on the history of styles , and judicious in appraisals of the work of individual artists . |
| 3 | An instructive and recent example of a historical exhibition is ‘ Making Their Mark ’ , toured in the United States during 1989 . |
| 4 | Vision is a better example of a modular processing system . |
| 5 | An example of a respectable product which embraces the full potential of GUIs is Texas Instrument 's debugger for its TMS320C30 evaluation module — it has the same screen format as the simulator for the new TMS320C40 ) . |
| 6 | An example of a software product incorporating this feature is Analog Devices 's simulator for its ADSP-2101 . |
| 7 | Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer . |
| 8 | The abolition of the domestic tax differential ( an example of a response to external pressure ) brought a soaring import market . |
| 9 | An interesting example of a different type of social service institution is that concerned with the provision of livelihood for those unable to earn by reason of sickness , disablement , lack of work , or above all , age . |
| 10 | This example of a major deal outlines the money paid to the artist as advances for a seven-album , world-wide deal , with recording and video costs recoupable . |
| 11 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 12 | Cameroun provides another example of a country whose stability was seriously jeopardized by a major crisis over the succession to the presidency . |
| 13 | The irrigation schemes in the Sudan , including the Gezira project , provide an example of a case where a poor response from tenant farmers , for a variety of reasons , has consistently dogged the major rehabilitation projects financed by the World Bank and other donors in the early 1980s . |
| 14 | The correlation which Morgan and Engels make between very simple agriculture and herding and the gentile constitution is a rare example of a proposition of this kind which has held up fairly well in the light of recent research . |
| 15 | Another example of a terminological difficulty arises in the section in which Kemp briefly examines the relation between perspective and eighteenth-century theories of perception . |
| 16 | At Magdalen College , Oxford , there is a splendid example of a couple having oral sex . |
| 17 | Faldo , who has a feud-ridden history with some members of the AGW , could be forgiven for thinking that this is yet another example of a lack of sympathy with his cause . |
| 18 | In California , Wells Fargo 's acquisition of Crocker National in 1986 is an example of a bigger deal that was planned and executed with military precision . |
| 19 | This is but a particular example of a new truth . |
| 20 | Take the ( extreme ) example of a society which , during the gap months , had paid ten times as much interest as usual . |
| 21 | Here 's a typical example of a Viz comic strip : Dad gets a new putter for Christmas and says ( to onlooking wife and guffawing son ) , ‘ Oh ! |
| 22 | Towards the end of each I will describe a recent example of a person who lived and suffered in such a way . |
| 23 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 24 | As an example of a class of artefact whose outline shapes are of particular interest to the expert , let us turn to bronze axes dating from the Early Bronze Age of southern Britain ( fig. 9.1 ) . |
| 25 | 10.4 Example of a thesaurus display . |
| 26 | Newton was one of the great heroes of the Evangelical movement , partly because of his friendship with the poet Cowper , and partly because the vagaries of his career presented so striking an example of a sinner saved . |
| 27 | However , adulthood begins at 18 rather than 21 , and once again we have an example of a desire to shield those aged under 21 which may actually lead to the penalization of some brothers and sisters of that age . |
| 28 | In the case of Rose of Lima , who is simply a very extreme and therefore very demanding example of a more widespread phenomenon , it seems that we must at least understand , even if we do not wish to reclaim and emulate , the ideas about purity which governed her life . |
| 29 | Perhaps this successful example of a real market reflecting environmental concern will not be lost on policy makers . |
| 30 | We have just given you an example of a typical dieter 's antecedent events , leading to the breaking of the diet . |