Example sentences of "[verb] for instance " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now say for instance er I do the pots |
| 32 | To supervise for instance the selection of " good men " to serve on local panels , they sent missi from the palace . |
| 33 | ‘ Watch your lip Gatesey , ’ he said in a quiet voice , which held more menace then a shout ‘ You of all people should know there is always an angle for a bit of profit , like salmon poaching for instance . ’ |
| 34 | Problems of definition and calculation are considered for instance , current estimates for the ratio of public spending to National Income vary from as little as 25% to over 60% . |
| 35 | Occasionally , a ‘ sustained ’ note has something like a rhythm vibrato ( in triplet rhythm ) : listen for instance to ‘ Although ’ at the start of the second and last choruses , ‘ Now ’ at the start of the third , and ‘ Well ’ at the start of the fourth . |
| 36 | While they are happy to predate on anything small enough to swallow — playing havoc with Molly fry for instance — they are not like the Bumble Bee Gobies , ( and the less-well-known Slim Mudskippers Parapocryptes serperaster which we also keep ) which will accept only frozen or live foods . |
| 37 | Imagine for instance a case where size was influenced by 22 loci , each with only two alleles ( A/a ; B/b ; C/c … |
| 38 | And when Peter Lilley says for instance |
| 39 | What we choose to call this event depends upon factors such as its magnitude : we speak for instance of accidents , emergencies , disasters and catastrophes , each of which carries connotations concerning the scale of the event and each of which will have a set of human and/or environmental consequences . |
| 40 | Er , we 're not erm , geared for instance , to deliver a course like that in Stanford , but some other agency may be . |
| 41 | There was indeed a reign of euphemism and of ostensible delicacy which prevented for instance the novel from being too explicit , bowdlerised Shakespeare 's plays , alluded to prostitution as the ‘ social evil ’ and gonorrhoea and syphilis as the ‘ social diseases ’ . |
| 42 | Are you prepared to give up smoking for instance , or to cut down on the amount of caffeine , alcohol , sugar and junk-food you may consume ? |
| 43 | Laurent 's classic book of 1855 contained chemical equations like ours ; writing for instance the reaction of potassium carbonate and sulphuric acid as : |
| 44 | Consider for instance the Riders . |
| 45 | Consider for instance Maltz and Borker 's thesis that the problems of mixed sex talk arise out of cultural mismatch rather than power imbalance ; childhood experience has made men and women diverge in their expectations . |
| 46 | Consider for instance the ‘ double standard ’ in sexual morality , traced by Symons ( 1979 ) to the disparity between ovum and sperm . |
| 47 | Just consider for instance how much you 'll have in your account at the beginning of each term . |
| 48 | ( Consider for instance , the distribution of the tu / vous pronouns in French . ) |
| 49 | Consider for instance EC countries that export agricultural produce to other EC countries . |
| 50 | A false sensation of attitude will arise if the pilot interprets the resultant acceleration as his true vertical reference : this can occur for instance in forward acceleration , on take-off or a missed approach . |
| 51 | Further investigation is , however , encouraged by the pattern of coal ranks in coalfields just to the north of the Variscan Front , as shown for instance by National Coal Board maps ( Anon 1960 ) and summarised on Fig. 4 . |
| 52 | Regarding ( 100a ) and ( 100b ) , Riddle observes for instance that ( 100a ) " does not entail that the woman in question is actually intelligent . |
| 53 | The animal you ride for instance — ’ |
| 54 | Now , if a crime is committed , the police will be able to play back the video tape for clues , noting for instance the registration numbers of vehicles using the road . |
| 55 | Then Braque has capitalized on the element of ambiguity in the Demoiselles ( it is not immediately clear for instance whether the leg of the ‘ demoiselle ’ on the left is the far leg or the near leg , and the lower part of the twisted forearm of the squatting figure is left undefined ) as a means of emphasizing the flatness of the canvas he was working on : the far buttock of the Nu is connected to the foremost leg and heightened in tone so that it appears to stand in front of the nearer part of the figure ; if the outline of the neck were extended it would not join the shoulder naturalistically but pass by its outer edge , and the fact that the outline is deliberately broken allows the neck , shoulder and arm to flow into each other and fuse . |
| 56 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 57 | They should be taught to look for instances where : |
| 58 | The trouble is that any proposed reduction — granting for instance a value of 0.8 to a second preference and 0.6 to a third — is bound to be arbitrary . |
| 59 | Erm if it 's erm er er a highways matter for instance , we 've got new area offices for highways matters . |
| 60 | We know for instance that quite often erm pillaged flocks of cows and sheep were driven into the quad as one of the few open spaces within the city walls . |