Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Janet Holmes for instance argues that some tag-questions are really support structures . |
| 5 | Diane Blakemore for instance uses she and her to mean any person , male or female : |
| 6 | ‘ You have no ambitions to work abroad — in Brussels for instance , or Strasbourg ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In Kuwait for instance . |
| 10 | The world of Grosz for instance . |
| 11 | If any of those letters were published , and especially if they printed his initials at the end , someone — Eleanor for instance — might recognize Gina and himself . |
| 12 | Benson for instance argues that agencies are primarily concerned with achieving what he calls an ‘ uncluttered domain' for their services . |
| 13 | A lot of people of qualifying age — Kingsley Amis for instance — are a little narrow in their Englishness . |
| 14 | Even when the referential locus of noun and adjective are the same , however , there is no general guarantee that the overall " output " , in terms of intensional entities ( and the real or potential referents to which they may correspond ) will be the same under these two ways of linking an adjective to a noun , which amount respectively to introducing a subject x identified in part through having the property F , and to introducing a subject x and saying that it has the property F. For instance , if we move from the predicative structure : ( 7 ) clouds are small to the phrase small clouds , we pass to an expression which identifies a certain group of entities but does nothing more than identify them ; whereas expression ( 7 ) identifies a quite different ( and much larger ) group of entities , and says something about them ( which , as it happens , is not true , even though small clouds certainly do exist ) . |
| 15 | A company has set up recently in Crossaig , Strathclyde for instance that makes use of the ISDN system to distribute abstracts from medical journals to its customers . |
| 16 | Option A keeps the main intercity passenger lines but does not keep the railways major freight lines — the lines between Cardiff and Swansea and between the Midlands and Yorkshire for instance . |
| 17 | but erm , and these people were assigned erm three separate sections erm , Harold for instance , he took over Further Education which was a term which had n't been erm , was not an accepted term in those days because we 'd always er referred to it as Higher Education |
| 18 | Coronation Street for instance , draws some of its appeal from this kind of nostalgia . |
| 19 | erm it may be that erm because of my generation , but you do n't get the same sort of personalities nowadays as you did in those days , erm Mr for instance he was , he was a most benign sort of erm fellow of what one would describe as a real gentleman mm , mind you he used to have his paddies at times but |
| 20 | Other critics praised Street Scene : George Blaisdell for instance liked the way in which ‘ simple persons have come into their own ’ and Photoplay told its readers that here they would find the ‘ humour , the pathos and the gripping drama ’ which they saw again and again in their own lives and in their own newspapers , but then it went on to ask : ‘ Will it be box-office ? ’ |
| 21 | He was terrified of boredom , and like other artists of great versatility ( like Eric Gill for instance ) he is difficult to pin down . |
| 22 | I 've just put my house on the market in York I 've chosen the if erm that 's that 's you know the whole taking the whole scene into consideration , but if I was in Bournemouth for instance and buying a house in York and I said I phone three or four estates agents and said , Look please send me information through the post . |
| 23 | Jovial inquiries about illegal subsidies to industry , Rover for instance , got short shrift . |
| 24 | But the deep grammatical structure of language , as revealed by Chomsky for instance , is not susceptible to criticism in quite the same way . |
| 25 | Take Canada for instance . |
| 26 | The success of the TV and press interests ( including papers now far from the North American base , in West Africa for instance ) led him to diversify , taking an important stake in North Sea oil . |
| 27 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 28 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | Accordingly it is no longer adding premium prices to the VAX Line — in the UK for instance , system prices for the VAX 4000 Model 500 have been reduced by between 14% and 21% across the range , with an unlimited open VMS user licence falling in price from £29,000 to £7000 — a 76% reduction . |
| 30 | For an ascent of the Whymper Couloir of the Aiguille Verte for instance , a midnight start and a six hour target time are prerequisites to success . |