Example sentences of "example [prep] such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of such a system would be the Tuareg of North Africa where a ruling class controls large numbers of slaves but where no centralized authority existed traditionally . |
| 2 | An example of such a conversion , in which the former windmill is only partly recognisable , has recently been completed at Ramsey , Cambridgeshire ( Fig 54 ) . |
| 3 | The classic example of such a military move , law experts said , was the 1976 Israel raid on Entebbe . |
| 4 | An example of such a calculation would be one which compared the images on the two retinas , and searched for differences which would provide information about relative distances . |
| 5 | One example of such a combination is shown in Fig. 3 . |
| 6 | The only other example of such a doorway in Milan is on the Palazzo Radice-Fossati . |
| 7 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 8 | One example of such a structure might be a main verb-schema ( e.g. Rumelhart & Ortony 1977 ) , with the mappings representing cases . |
| 9 | An example of such a computerized search aid is the CONIT — COnnector for Network Information Transfer developed by Marcus at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems , MIT . |
| 10 | It is the first example of such a cloud found outside a galaxy . |
| 11 | An example of such a sheet is shown opposite , but the exact symptoms written in the left-hand column will vary for each child . |
| 12 | An excellent example of such a community today would be the Amish groups of Pennsylvania . |
| 13 | An excellent example of such a walk has been developed and waymarked by councils in the eastern county of Gwent — a move which in itself is a sign of changed official attitudes and priorities . |
| 14 | Their ideal of endogamy , which treats the marriage exchange as if it were non-existent , is an example of such a mechanism for achieving peace . |
| 15 | The increase in the size of the European population during the sixteenth century provides a particularly striking example of such a transition , for while it can be fairly accurately charted and measured , its causes are not well understood . |
| 16 | Our results demonstrate that acquisition of constitutive Bcl-2 expression is an example of such a mutation . |
| 17 | The most remarkable example of such a deposit in Britain is that at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey , found by a contractor during the last war when he was digging for peat . |
| 18 | A typical example of such a long-term health problem is arthritis . |
| 19 | The most obvious example of such a sanction , of course , is the action taken by a state against those who break its laws . |
| 20 | An example of such a provision is common Article 2 of the Geneva Red Cross Conventions , which provides that the parties shall be bound by the Conventions in relation to a party to the conflict which is not a party to the Conventions ‘ if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof ’ . |
| 21 | An instruction might therefore explicitly specify three store locations ; an example of such a three-address instruction is Add the contents of store addresses A and B , depositing the result at store address C In early computers such a technique was feasible , since store capacities ( and therefore operand field lengths ) were small , and addressing mode fields were often absent . |
| 22 | English , as distinct from British , culture seems to provide a good example of such a tendency ; it is a culture largely undisturbed by invasion or revolution , difficult for foreigners to plumb , subtle and rich in social allusion at every level . |
| 23 | The use of litmus paper furnishes another example of such a transformation . |
| 24 | Deddington , in north Oxfordshire , is an example of such a village , and there are several similar examples in every English county . |
| 25 | An example of such a situation is where hoteliers overbook their accommodation . |
| 26 | The outstanding example of such a body is the National Trust , which owns more than 200,000 ha of land in England and Wales ( there is also a National Trust for Scotland ) . |
| 27 | A good example of such a breach of secrecy followed an incident in 1979 , when the until-then-secret ‘ MUFTI ’ team of specially trained prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest demonstration by prisoners in D Wing of Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 28 | The Old Testament ius talionis ( an eye for an eye , a life for a life , etc. ) is one example of such a tariff , but only one : a retributive tariff could be considerably more lenient than this , as long as the proportionate relationship between crimes and punishments was retained . |
| 29 | A leading example of such a case is Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton , L.R. 4 H.L. 226 ; for a more recent Scottish case , also the subject of an appeal to this House , see South of Scotland Electricity Board v. British Oxygen Co . |
| 30 | An example of such a case was In re E. ( A Minor ) ( unreported ) , which came before Ward J. on 21 September 1990 . |