Example sentences of "[det] be [adj] example of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , some film producer sitting in London , thinks of a rural county , he 'll probably think of Shropshire , and I think this is typical example of how we can dribble away our scarce resources on a couple of thousand here , a couple of thousand there to other bodies , erm , I am , I 'm , I 'm against this proposal , we 'll keep our money for essential items . |
| 2 | This is one example of the union ‘ leading by example ’ . |
| 3 | This is one example of the feeling for the maypole in the village . |
| 4 | This is one example of many . |
| 5 | This is one example of a task related to an extract from off-air documentary material within a unit on drugs . |
| 6 | This is another example of constructive liability , and it is particularly inappropriate here , in so far as the law is aiming to produce a ‘ ladder ’ of offences graded in terms of relative seriousness . |
| 7 | By the Carboniferous many of the shapes we see in living gastropods can be matched in the fossils , but despite these similarities the majority of the Palaeozoic forms were not closely related to their living analogues ; this is another example of similar-looking forms evolving independently probably in response to similar life habits . |
| 8 | This is another example of the way in which damages are intended to reflect only what you have really lost . |
| 9 | ( This is another example of the inappropriateness of transposing management and land-use practices from one discrete ecological system to another . ) |
| 10 | The basic trouble is that this is another example of approaching a situation whereby government ministers , for one reason or another , do not appear enthusiastic about using their powers . |
| 11 | In these latter experiments , however , a different strain of yeast was used from that employed by Jones and Jenkins , and it may well be that this is another example of one strain of an organism being more sensitive to particular homoeopathic remedies than others . |
| 12 | ‘ This is another example of how stupid judges can be , ’ said Harry Cape , of the Campaign Against Drink Driving . |
| 13 | This is another example of the way in which the attempt to standardise human performance can negate the purpose of study . |
| 14 | This is another example of a treaty device to include third parties in the treaty arrangement . |
| 15 | We can only speculate on whether this is another example of the pervasive influence of psychoanalytic thinking in our culture . |
| 16 | This is another example of the matrix 's inability to show transfers within a sector . |
| 17 | Bob said : ‘ This is another example of our campaign being recognised by the advertising industry as one of the most successful of its type . ’ |
| 18 | This is another example of a procedure which is characteristic of the rational expectations approach to the use of information : the elements of , must be exploited in such a way that no better predictor of can be found without further , and by definition subsequent , enlargement of the information set . |
| 19 | However , the peaks can be either positive or negative : and this is another example of chaotic behaviour ; a sequence like that in Fig. 24.3(b) might be obtained by the toss of a coin — heads for a positive peak , tails for a negative . |
| 20 | But regrettably , erm , it 's , this is another example of the disadvantaged and those who can least afford it , to er , look after themselves who 're having to suffer . |
| 21 | One can only assume that this is another example of the popular press indulging in unwarranted smears , this time against the Mission Impossible Party of Labour and the loyal supporters of Darlington FC . |
| 22 | This is another example of ‘ Scots do n't need enemies ; we have each other ’ . |
| 23 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 24 | These are two examples of women in traditionally male-dominated societies using an indirect form of mystical attack . |
| 25 | These are all examples of common-sense models of behaviour intended to predict continued misconduct . |
| 26 | These are all examples of centrifugal acceleration . |
| 27 | These are all examples of ways in which people learn to live with long-term social difficulties which they have not been able to change . |
| 28 | These are particular examples of what the mathematicians call eigenvector relations . |
| 29 | These are further examples of commodities for which markets are absent or limited . |
| 30 | Belfast Gas Works Ormeau Road , ( 1896 ) Klondyke building , Retort House , Meter House and workshops — all are fine examples of Belfast 's industrial past which have suffered through vandalism and theft of original materials . |