Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] example " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of a loophole in the law — even though he 's banned from keeping animals — the Colin French still own them provided someone else , a stokeholder for example , takes custody . |
| 2 | It does not rampage around like a chariot for example . |
| 3 | But this does not mean that he is able to shed his fear of some forms of animal life , or that he would be able to practise ahi sā if confronted by a snake for example . |
| 4 | Now , this contribution is not direct , it 's indirect in the sense that males , a male for example who is provisioning a wife who is pregnant is not directly invent investing in the offspring clearly you ca n't do that she has to do that , cos the offspring 's inside her body , but indirectly he may be feeding his wife , protecting her and providing for her in , in a way that is absolutely critical to her reproductive success too . |
| 5 | The same goes for O one of a gram for example , toxin and it gives you a hundred thousand er as as I 've indicated here , there 's a , a wide range for the potency . |
| 6 | What I can say , however , is that the constructivist position allows a distinctive analysis of the ‘ mental ’ when we speak of a ‘ mental representation of a green patch ’ : it helps us to understand the difference between mental representations and the non-mental variety ( a photograph for example ) . |
| 7 | Now then , I 've made , oh er before I go into the capital gains , er capital allowances you can claim a proportion of the capital allowances on a reducing balance , so er if a car for example costs you five thousand pounds , you 'd actually be allowed twenty five percent in the first year , the twenty five percent would be reduced from five thousand , and in the next year you 'd get twenty five percent off your balance until the five thousand pounds had been allowed against your profits . |
| 8 | Assuming an offer has been accepted in unqualified terms ( a counter-offer for example is tantamount to a rejection of the original offer ) , a valid contract must show each contracting party will receive some benefit , in money or money 's worth — in technical terms , ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 9 | A bolero for example , is really just a short cardigan with curved front edges and crossover cardigan just has extra width built in to the front pieces so that they overlap each over . |
| 10 | When you use the mouse to drag an icon to a new position , in copying a file for example , the sonic feedback continues . |
| 11 | A teacher for example may hold up a prayer mat to signify a " holy " object . |
| 12 | Er if we attended if if we were due to attend a meeting for example in in in Derby , er er twenty mile away ? |
| 13 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 14 | In getting to know a person for example , to insist on doubting everything he or she does and says all the time will soon put an end to any effective relationship — doubt is simply not appropriate . |
| 15 | These were that breaking the psychological bond between a child and a carer for example , parent and child , irretrievably harms the child and therefore should be resisted . |
| 16 | Whereupon the leader decided on a colour for example brown . |
| 17 | What will happen in the event of a catastrophe for example , if a commercial company goes bust or the new pension scheme collapses ? |
| 18 | If you can shop only once a week for example , you will need much more deep freeze space than if you can shop every day . |
| 19 | Senna hurt a hand in his mishap but said : ‘ I am only aware of it when there is a kick-back from the wheel , like on a kerb for example . |
| 20 | So may , you may have a bay for example that 's in an area where all the rivers draining into it are rich in copper because they 're running over rocks which are copper . |
| 21 | Previously , if you wanted a dress for example , you 'd buy your cloth at the drapers , you 'd buy your bits and pieces at the haberdashers , erm you 'd go to the milliners and the glovers and all those different sorts of shops . |
| 22 | Is there a scullery for example ? |
| 23 | If you have to bandage a hand for example , okay ? |
| 24 | The MHC-encoded proteasome subunits , which are inducible by interferon- γ , may nevertheless function to increase the overall proteolytic activity or the range of peptides generated by the proteasome from antigens in the context of an immune response , to a virus for example . |
| 25 | For behaviours which do not have obvious start and finish points , watching television or paying attention to a lesson for example , it is more appropriate to measure the length of time they last . |
| 26 | They could find it easier to come to an agreement to support each other during a lock-out for example , because they would have sufficient financial resources to enable them to survive periods of inactivity . |
| 27 | Or you could use a recording as an example of the performance of a task you set the students — the preparation of a report for example . |
| 28 | Slight variations in the implementations will occur because of differences in hardware construction — there is no standard method for configuring multiple Intel processors in a system for example — and the need for a range of device drivers . |
| 29 | Figs 9–10 show a couple of example fingerings . |
| 30 | It is becoming increasingly clear that this whole process , defined in one recent study as ‘ a set of procedures for uniting those who control the resources necessary for certain tasks ( the members of a municipal council or the shareholders in a company for example ) with those who use the goods or services produced from these resources ( pupils , patients , tenants , customers , etc. ) 'i is itself part of policy making . |