Example sentences of "in this example " in BNC.

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1 In this example , the opponent has thrown himself forwards , with no thought of a face guard
2 Notice that in this example of the foot sweep , the opponent 's ankle is actually struck with the flat of your foot and is knocked , rather than drawn , to one side .
3 In this example , the marketing research data might be useful for the management of the individual subsidiaries in Mexico , Canada , Spain and France , but management at Milwaukee Way 's headquarters would not be able to extract data for global marketing information and inter-country comparisons .
4 For others , as in this example , we seek a language form of definition : we call it a ‘ guarding ’ relationship .
5 There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) .
6 Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored .
7 In this example , the number of data points is not an exact multiple of three , so the second guideline could not be met ; balance in the two outer batches has been preserved by putting three points into each of them them and four into the middle .
8 In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s .
9 In this example , the clock shows the third month — so the product was made in March 1987 .
10 It is generally assumed that the use of and will enhance plural reference in this example .
11 The important point in the present context is that the change from present to past tense destroys the identity of the plural noun ( in this example lies ) and the third person singular verb ( again lies ) .
12 The actual numbers in this example are not important .
13 In this example the teacher has provided a collection of shells for the children to explore .
14 As output and sales rise , so does total cost and , in this example , total cost rises at a constant rate from £220,000 when 40,000 units are produced to £700,000 when 200,000 units are produced .
15 It is clear that the individual is not acting rationally in this example : the expectation error is increasing every year and the individual is failing to predict inflation even though it is rising by a constant amount every year and is caused by the same factor ( monetary growth ) every year .
16 The current rating of the combined secondaries is the same as when they are used separately , 250 milliamps in this example .
17 In this example , it is probable that the background sound to the cutaway will match the rest of the sequence .
18 In this example , leasing results in cost savings with a present value of £143 ( £10,000 — £9,857 ) .
19 Indeed , in this example the customer would be better off buying now with any credit arrangement charging under 30 per cent a year .
20 Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better .
21 Sometimes , as in this example , the contrast is obvious in the language itself ( play well v. lose ) ; on other occasions , the contrast may be only in the speaker 's mind , e.g. :
22 In this example , I have used grey leaves from Pyrethrum ptarmiflorum , some herb Robert leaves , forget-me-nots , roses and Japanese anemones .
23 The mount is particularly attractive in this example , with the pink card edged with a narrow gold line and the mount backed with cream fabric — the plain gold frame goes well with the gold line in the mount .
24 Careful reading showed that at best there was 10 per cent heat unaccounted for , but big numbers appeared because Fleischmann and Pons had ‘ extrapolated to rods 10 cm long ’ ( their actual rod in this example had been only 1.25 cm ) without saying what rule they had used to make the extrapolation from measured to assumed .
25 In this example , the programme has been used to predict the behaviour of dissolved silica with time and space during the flow of calcium hydroxide through a sandstone in a laboratory experiment .
26 In this example it is impossible to punish Joanne by removing a rewarding event or object — she has already ‘ removed ’ her food and plate !
27 In this example Robert is being removed from a highly specific type of reward — the pleasure of being in bed with his mum and dad .
28 This is entered by deleting the three Xs at the bottom of the sub-menu and replacing them with your millimetres number , in this example 30 .
29 Delete these and enter your measurement for forty stitches , in this example 120 .
30 In this example Barthes enlists the assistance of the public and the audience as vindicators of his interpretation :
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