Example sentences of "[pron] for instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | Why not approach us through the proper services , through an agent , me for instance ? |
| 3 | You 'd do ‘ tie-ins ’ with the local shops : you 'd sell the Paris idea to them for instance . |
| 4 | That 's helpful for us to know because maybe even would want to take one of them for instance , that 's already been described |
| 5 | The independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 , Ghana and Malaysia in 1957 , and most other African dependencies in the 1960s , were only milestones in the long , gradual process of the relative weakening of Commonwealth links , which for instance withdrew the tariff advantages of the British cotton industry in many tropical markets . |
| 6 | Heating for instance in more than just one room , which for instance became standard in council house building in the late forties onwards . |
| 7 | That would we feel is certainly in a coordinating way and if somebody for instance er say you 've got a husband and wife living together , one of them suddenly becomes handicapped in a particular way , what we are planning to do is trying to develop programmes which will enable the carer to have to go on training at the County Council 's expense to enable them to look after somebody in their own homes and it 's a type of thing we want to develop . |
| 8 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 9 | ‘ Like who for instance ? ’ |
| 10 | Were you for instance more comfortable with a Mother fixation , I might give you a Catholic programme or a Russian Orthodox icon system . |
| 11 | ‘ What I mean is do you for instance know the three-times table ? ’ |
| 12 | If not erm then if your spouse died the day after you for instance , you had a road accident or something like that and you 've left it all to her , she 'll take it all and then it 'll add it would be added to her estate it as well and make the inheritance tax bill bigger . |
| 13 | But that 's the same as if you willed spouse had died before you for instance , and you were the second of two to die and she had n't or she might have everything to the children and you still got a hundred and sixty thousand pounds , you ca n't avoid the inheritance tax in those circumstances . |
| 14 | But on actual safeguarding of assets , erm do you for instance with separate custodians , do you have any views about the custody of your schemes assets ? |
| 15 | Right , so I mean obviously if there 's anything that comes up as you go along I 've got ta be able to you know you and I , I 'll just chat it through , but when it comes to things like er me talk to you , sales talk to you for instance about a comparative question , you would n't know what I was talking about would you ? |
| 16 | right I mean what would you for instance think if it 's possible , if I can prove that right |
| 17 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 18 | Er this one for instance , is er er here we go . |
| 19 | So we for instance will enable you to use decision support tools against any of that information in a seamless manner . |
| 20 | Similarly , Olson 's claims for literacy , that it for instance ‘ unambiguously represents meanings ’ , turn out to rest on descriptions of the ‘ British essayists ’ of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 21 | Yeah I mean there 's no point in re-roofing it for instance . |
| 22 | Has he for instance consulted them with their rights under the Tenants Charter ? |
| 23 | Within living memory , like mine for instance , it was possible to dial numbers beginning D.O.U … . |
| 24 | The little booklet , which is turning up in the oddest of places , tells us for instance that ‘ Butter is a natural product — alternatives are different . ’ |