Example sentences of "example the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the above example the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 , so the donor would have to certify that he would be paying tax of at least £250 . |
| 2 | For example the numbers needing opiates to control pain are rising and up to one in five will need special battery-operated syringe pumps to deliver medication in the home . |
| 3 | For example the considerable criticism of the police response to domestic disputes ‘ mainly related to their failure to take effective action by arresting men who assault their wives and girl friends ’ ( Shapland and Hobbs 1989 ) is largely determined by wider social factors pertaining to the historical role and place of women in society . |
| 4 | Extensity ( for example the size of a patch of light ) usually correlates with the number and spatial distribution of receptors activated . |
| 5 | Liveries have of course proliferated ; not since pre-1923 days have so many different colour schemes been seen , the only snag being that often two or more liveries are included in the same train where for example the PTE 's dedicated stock gets diverted . |
| 6 | In other cases they added humour , most notably in Lanchbery 's score for La Fille Mal Gardée , where several witty slants in the orchestration raise laughter , for example the music for the Cock and the Hens . |
| 7 | He can only highlight the atmosphere supporting the plot , especially those circumstances where he has to portray differences between classes and thus general behaviour , idiosyncrasies , etc. , for example the contrast that must be made between the dances for all and sundry in the town square and those for the aristocrats in the ballroom of Romeo and Juliet . |
| 8 | For example the Barley Mow in Dorset Street , W1 , is an expawnbrokers . |
| 9 | For example the Balmenhorn — ‘ 4000er it may be , but mountain it is not … there are a couple of dozen more prominent adjacent peaks exactly like this nunatak . ’ |
| 10 | Take for example the peasant who visits the mausoleum housing Mao 's corpse in Tiananmen Square . |
| 11 | It also completed the long task of national reconciliation , burying by example the myth which dates from the 1946-49 Civil War , that right and left can never co-operate . |
| 12 | Mr Patten scored well in the middle range , for example the town and country planning issues which most concern his own supporters . |
| 13 | Only a mass revolt by AFBD members — which is unlikely - or legal action by particularly aggrieved firms , for example the Commodity Trad ers ' Group , can prevent the great majority of those firms which wish to continue doing business with Americans from signing the commission 's order exempting them from the full rigour of its rules . |
| 14 | Further , Baldwin discerns in the controversy an overlap of class anxieties and pragmatic political considerations — for example the wish to encourage home industries and discourage the buying of foreign goods ( Sumptuary Legislation , ch. 5 , ‘ The Reign of Elizabeth ’ ) . |
| 15 | For example the sport of crown green bowling , which was very little known outside of the north of England , has been shown to a wider public ; the greens are often oddly bereft of spectators , and the northern accents of the players are plainly audible as they urge on their woods or confer solemnly as a pair over the last bowl of an important ‘ end ’ . |
| 16 | Take as an example the feeding behaviour of a growing baby that is demand-fed . |
| 17 | With some airlines , there is the facility ( for example the ‘ sleeperette ’ , to take a good sleep rather than just a nap ) . |
| 18 | Consider for example the proposition that the average human possesses one breast and one testicle , a grievous misapplication of statistics no doubt , but less of an affront to logic than the argument of the weather forecaster , seized on by John Allen Paulos : with a 50 per cent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 per cent chance on Sunday , he declared , ‘ it looks like a 100 per cent chance of rain this weekend ’ . |
| 19 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 20 | In rare instances , there is still evidence of manufacturing methods , for example the clay moulds used for casting bronze bridle bits and other equestrian equipment found at the Iron Age site of Gussage All Saints or stone moulds for weapons ( fig. 5.7 ) . |
| 21 | Such research provides a means of tracing the progress of technological change : for example the development from the early exploitation of native metal to the alloying of copper with arsenic or tin to make bronze and then to the large-scale manufacture of brass ( copper-zinc alloy ) by the Romans . |
| 22 | Some of these rock types are quite exotic — for example the rare porcellanite from Northern Ireland — whereas others , such as the granite type known as dolerite , occur in many different areas of upland Britain including Wales . |
| 23 | For example the so-called ‘ Dark Age ’ of European history , following the decline of the Roman Empire , has a dearth of written records , and those that do survive are questionable . |
| 24 | From the devil 's power , from planetary fate , Christ is redeemer , and his values as expressed in , for example the ‘ Beatitudes ’ ( Matt. 5 ) are a reversal of those current in society . |
| 25 | The difficulty is best explained by contrast with a eukaryotic species — for example the house mouse , Mus musculus . |
| 26 | As I shall discuss in Chapter 9 , more long-lasting changes in gene activation are involved in the differentiation of cells in higher organisms , for example the differences between cells in the kidney , liver , intestine and so on . |
| 27 | In this particular example the knowledge concerns the arrangement of things in space — hence the word ‘ map ’ . |
| 28 | It does so by going to a series of intermediate goals , for example the junction of the branch it is on with the main stem . |
| 29 | Some of his crusades , for example the campaign for lead-free air , have been bankrolled by Godfrey Bradman , the property developer , but he no longer has largesse to spare . |
| 30 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |