Example sentences of "[be] for instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are for instance , diverse democratic conceptions of this postmodernity . |
| 2 | The way to teach them is to work with the behaviours they show naturally ; like moths , they are for instance attracted by light , but find the fruit on which they feed primarily by smell . |
| 3 | The forecaster would search past time-series of data for consistent evidence of : * seasonal variations ( which are for instance marked in the case of holiday or toy sales ) over a period of a year . |
| 4 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 5 | Do you know how many control parameters there are for instance ? |
| 6 | and if you 're for instance dealing with a purchaser who 's interested in buying around about December what was the system that you had about saying what the service charges might be ? , |
| 7 | It is possible that there may be for instance some appalling typographical gremlin er has crept in to something so that something makes a nonsense . |
| 8 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 9 | Donaldson 's for instance became a German prisoner-of-war camp ; the Royal School for Deaf Children at Margate was taken over by the Corporation of Margate and used as the Civil Defence Headquarters , Food & Fuel Office , W.V.S. Headquarters , Emergency Police station , among a number of other wartime departments . |
| 10 | There 's a thing , because there are a terrible lot of things I do n't like at all of Picasso 's for instance , his versions of ‘ Las Meniñas ’ . |
| 11 | Story-tellers have revitalised the tradition of verbal gossip to the point where a juicy item that happened late one night in Annabel 's for instance , can have been chattered right around the world in a matter of 24 hours without it ever going into the newspapers . |
| 12 | And if it 's for instance a second marriage husband 's side of the family could be missing out all together . |
| 13 | I mean they , people er , the hairdresser 's for instance , they seemed to be there for evermore at the far end , towards I mean er , er , and then there was half way along on the other side and |
| 14 | There is for instance the theory that inflation is spontaneously generated by trade unions . |
| 15 | Little explicit literary evidence confirms this view of the Council ; there is for instance nothing in the pamphlet we call the Old Oligarch , written in c.425 , although in other contexts it does comment on the influence at Athens enjoyed by the wealthy and well-born . |
| 16 | It is for instance often sufficient to take the supply price of the different kinds of raw materials used in any manufacture as ultimate facts , without analysing these supply prices into the several elements of which they are composed ; otherwise indeed the analysis would never end . |
| 17 | It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) . |
| 18 | No , cold , er one example of that is for instance erm an Anglepoise lamp |