Example sentences of "[noun] for instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then it 'll come up , you know , I 'll put in w er one O two is the headlines for Ceefax for instance and then the stories will be from one O three to about one one five or something like that you see . |
| 2 | Many of these materials are expensive , but they can often be used successfully to decorate just one section of a room or part of the walls : above or below a dado rail for instance ; or as wall panels framed with timber mouldings , with a less expensive finish used on the rest of the wall . |
| 3 | Harrogate and Hambleton for instance are large districts , they extend many miles from North to South , development concentrated around the metropolitan areas will draw out commuters . |
| 4 | Botanically , it is a one-off with no obvious affinities and no immediate allies ; all that we know of its ancestors ( from fossil evidence ) is that they were once common over a much wider area , as near as Germany for instance , during the mid-Tertiary period approximately 30 million years ago . |
| 5 | Although you should be able to clear most blockages yourself , there are some — a tree root growing into a cracked drain for instance — which require specialist help . |
| 6 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 7 | They 're also a novelty within the country , I mean , the state opening of parliament for instance , it 's just weird ! |
| 8 | On some walks , like the Corsican High Level Route for instance , cutting the route short is time is running out is by no means easy . |
| 9 | On the London-Paris route for instance the EuroClass tickets will vary between £180 and £270 , compared with the £318 currently charged by its competitors on the route . |
| 10 | Well they did a lot of them are actually country songs that were like Old Flames and and even the Black Sheep was was an American song which we you know and yes you know if you send them back to America , Old Flames for instance is often back on the American those that played on the Irish programme . |
| 11 | Employers for instance tended to reject the view that all men who had served an apprenticeship were skilled . |
| 12 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 13 | This poetic sentence for instance , should it be quick or slow ? |
| 14 | Gladstone a great advocate of Italian unity for instance . |
| 15 | At present for instance , we have a cichlid growing-on and breeding ( we hope ) project in our cleanest largest and best tank ; we have a misbehaving Picasso Trigger on its own in a marine tank ( he was a bully in his owner 's community ) ; we have a ‘ planted ’ tank ( planted in the sense that it 's used as a holding tank for plants ) housing four swordtails , temporarily ; and three tanks devoid of occupants and in one case water . |
| 16 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 17 | illustrated package of the products for instance the school , there 's a comma after sound , there should n't be there , sound recording , cosmetics , food and toys comic illustrations , illuminated manuscripts , eighteen and nineteenth century painting , the whole galo , the whole |
| 18 | Janet Holmes for instance argues that some tag-questions are really support structures . |
| 19 | Diane Blakemore for instance uses she and her to mean any person , male or female : |
| 20 | The rooms , erm we 've tried to this has been a bit tied up since the broadcast , we 've tried to have it fairly cluttery so that kids for instance if they 're not used to sheep , can come and come and have a sniff of of of er you know . |
| 21 | Some of us felt that , you know , the fifty percent , if that were the crucial figure , and doubling the food poisoning for instance , might have been , might be a more snappy headline . |
| 22 | Car drivers for instance , you you get car you the Your neighbour is probably the nicest bloke you 've ever met in your life . |
| 23 | ‘ You have no ambitions to work abroad — in Brussels for instance , or Strasbourg ? ’ |
| 24 | If you 've got a flat roof for instance , if you 've got sun loungers in the side , well you just stack those up to the level of , levels of your . |
| 25 | ‘ — Or sooner than , well , a priest for instance . ’ |
| 26 | It always strikes me as odd that we are incredibly specific in our lives about the small things , ordering a sandwich for instance : we order type of bread , filling , relish , seasonings and extras . |
| 27 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 28 | He says in Mexico for instance there are communities who depend on it for their livelihood and who benefit from the sale of the wood . |
| 29 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 30 | So there 's no shortage of water in that area , er and even in some dock areas and dock for instance they 've got special fire mains which are pressurised , which give a lot of water at a high pressure , so you can pump from there . |