Example sentences of "for instance " in BNC.

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1 For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period .
2 Vision I call not only optical , but also spiritual realization ; for instance , historical vision issuing from the old sources . ’
3 The book is cursory in its treatment of Eliot 's literary background : there is no mention , for instance , of Wallace Stevens , Ivy Compton-Burnett , of Empson or Leavis , and no adequate picture of what Eliot meant to later generations of intellectuals in Britain .
4 But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory .
5 At the outset , Jaromil 's lyricism is a Modern affair in which biological compulsion and biographical reference — peeps at the maid Magda in her bath , for instance — are enveloped and disguised in a poetry which his doting and self-pitying mother finds inscrutable .
6 It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart .
7 But he is also a writer of remarkable ability who has managed to capture and to keep the readership he has bewildered and delighted and offended , and whose work is strong in an intelligent and generous-hearted awareness of public matters , some of them quite remote from the Family Roth : The Counterlife , for instance , carries a telling serio-comic critique of the hard line in Israel , the Israeli toughness , that refuses to ‘ give ground ’ .
8 Doyle , for instance , thinks to himself a Scottish thought : ‘ Would his grandparents ever have had sexual activity in the parlour ? ’
9 There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory .
10 I hear the grass grow , for instance .
11 The world of Grosz for instance .
12 The glider for instance ?
13 Claire Hunt , for instance , noted in 1988 of North Western brewers Robinsons that they ‘ appear on the whole to be fairly oblivious to the individual merits of their historic pubs . ’
14 There were of course some major practical problems in the way of me relaunching myself — my age , for instance .
15 Some gardeners will do anything to win prizes ( marrows filled with lead shot to add weight , for instance ) , but there 's one show where cheating is positively encouraged .
16 For instance , Colchicum autumnale ( naked ladies or meadow saffron ) , bulbs of which are available now , will flower if placed dry on a sunny windowsill .
17 Roses , for instance , dote on sticky soil .
18 ‘ Lord Lambourne ’ , for instance , is a very reliable early-flowering variety with green , red-flushed skin and crisp , juicy flesh .
19 The authorities do not require other methods of recovery to be tested , and it is therefore not always possible to be sure whether using the aileron , for instance , will flatten the spin and make it more difficult to stop .
20 There are certain precautions women should take during pregnancy , for instance , avoiding certain foods and being careful about contact with animals .
21 During my early career , for instance , when one of the shift was caught and sentenced for a string of burglaries , the others skirted around their implicit knowledge that ‘ there but for the grace of God goes everyone ’ , and comforted themselves by recalling ( with the aid of the hindsight-ometer ) that he had ‘ never been a real polis … always been a bit of a loner , something of an outsider … ’
22 ‘ Restrictive clauses , for instance .
23 The World , for instance ? ’
24 For other prey , a rat for instance , death would be next .
25 Other women , for instance .
26 This does not mean that the mind just responds to information in the way in which a thermostat , for instance , transduces information about temperature and performs switching operations .
27 Or to put it another way : on the representational theory of mind , all learning is the testing of hypotheses which are already represented in the mind in some form ( for instance as sentences ) .
28 Believing sentences and slotting the information that they convey into our knowledge base ( for instance , what we used to think about the referent of she ) is another story .
29 The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction .
30 For example , one surface dyslexic can accurately define the irregular words that he regularizes in pronunciation tasks ( for instance , pronouncing ‘ colonel ’ as ‘ COL-OH-NELL ’ ) .
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