Example sentences of "this [noun] may be illustrated [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A calculation of this sort may be illustrated by the following hypothetical example . |
| 2 | This point may be illustrated by the different ways of measuring the following set of crimes : ( a ) a gang robbery with six offenders and two victims , ( b ) five cattle thefts , involving sixteen offenders and eight head of cattle , and ( c ) a murder with a single assailant . |
| 3 | This idea may be illustrated in a study of the rufous hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) by Lynn Carpenter , D. C. Paton and M. A. Hixon . |
| 4 | This problem may be illustrated by listening to a foreign language ( about which one has no knowledge ) and trying to determine the location of the word boundaries . |
| 5 | This proposition may be illustrated by considering a situation in which an investor creates a portfolio consisting of share I and the market portfolio M. If the proportion invested in I is defined as W i ( in effect W i measures the excess demand for asset I when positive and excess supply of asset I when negative ; when W i is zero then the capital market is in equilibrium as there is neither excess demand nor excess supply of asset I ) and the proportion invested in M as ( ) , an infinite number of portfolios may be created where the weights for I may vary between +1and -1 . |