Example sentences of "[noun pl] for instance " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Employers for instance tended to reject the view that all men who had served an apprenticeship were skilled . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Car drivers for instance , you you get car you the Your neighbour is probably the nicest bloke you 've ever met in your life . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 10 | Take correcting and the locking up of formes for instance : Margaret Irwin regarded women as precluded from some of these tasks by physical incapacity . |
| 11 | Contemporary perceptions continue to be reflected in historical writing : thus Robert Gray 's valuable study of the " skilled workers " in Edinburgh is confined to an all-male sample ; no dressmakers for instance are included , and he refers only in passing to women compositors . |
| 12 | The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance . |
| 13 | It has a list of consultants around the country who examine requests for loans that involve esoteric technologies in computers or telecommunications for instance . |
| 14 | Assuming therefore that the number of foxes must be controlled — as with rabbits or rats for instance — as painless a method of control as possible must be found . |
| 15 | How about moving on to something else , shoes for instance . ’ |
| 16 | But those are n't the two , only two opera companies for instance , in the country , there are some fantastic opera companies who er , who work on a much smaller scale , who , in a sense , would not fill somewhere like the Apollo , who are just perfect for , for us . |
| 17 | I mean , making up the rosters for instance . |
| 18 | Somebody must have spotted a niche in the market to justify importing German chipped potatoes for instance , and now gives employment to clerks , insurers , salesmen here supporting German agriculture and food processors . |
| 19 | I think the stress and strain on the bearings for instance , the the middle bearing of it was underrated to carry that amount of weight , not in the vertical sense but in the yawing to and fro . |
| 20 | Many of these creatures — peacock worms for instance — look more like plants than animals . |
| 21 | On ministerial appointments for instance , while he made MacDonald change his intentions in a number of cases , he did not do so without occasional complaint front the Prime Minister , and continuing give and take between the two leaders . |
| 22 | Er we say that a an assignment should take two to three weeks for instance . |
| 23 | or from er brokers for instance |
| 24 | And they have to move to other industries , er productive industries and service industries and er communications for example which is very run down , and that 's going to take I should think , six to nine months of really hard work and suffering , and and a political clean up at the same time , because in the schools and universities for instance , er nobody could get a job in the old days , who was n't politically reliable , and all those people have got to be moved . |
| 25 | Pupils may need to know about ways of classifying books — the Dewey system in public libraries for instance . |
| 26 | When you come to smaller areas ( around the shoulder blades for instance ) change to thumbs and two middle fingers , but do not pinch the flesh . |
| 27 | Many theories ( conditioning ideas for instance ) , emphasise the maladaptive aspects of depressive thoughts and behaviour , and the distortion by depressed people of the threatfulness of experience . |
| 28 | In order to print out stitch patterns templates for instance , the program needs to know whether you have a punchcard or electronic machine and how many needles your machine can pattern over . |
| 29 | How do they test nuclear weapons for instance ? |
| 30 | Pupils using early photographs as one of their sources for instance , may want to put the invention of photography onto their time-line , and this could be linked with experiments and science work on the behaviour of light . |