Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] example " in BNC.
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| 1 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 2 | Any College treasures , any old manuscripts for example ? |
| 3 | However , in due course more and more authority ( over defence and foreign affairs for example ) went to the central government . |
| 4 | Our next step will be to show how the same two-part chords of Example 114 can be given much more tension through harsh dissonances added in a lower part : The lower part is always a semitone or a major 7th from an upper part . |
| 5 | One may be aware of feelings , sexual ones for example , that one is not able to conceptualise as sexual at the time . |
| 6 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 7 | Cell fusion techniques such as those used in making monoclonal antibodies for example , have always relied on polyethylene glycol to fuse cell membranes together . |
| 8 | Remember that , although there are eight factorial combinations in Example 16.1 , only seven comparisons are of interest , namely : |
| 9 | Pressure losses , at airlocked entrances for example , are compensated by a service pump geared to a pressure gauge inside the structure . |
| 10 | The original edition is the text as it was first printed ; most contemporary novels for example exist only in original editions . |
| 11 | Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) . |
| 12 | Two adjacent Labour-controlled authorities for example , may operate quite differently . |
| 13 | Far fewer houses for example lack basic amenities . |
| 14 | However , formative uses of criterion-referencing , given for diagnostic purposes for example , and at the convenience of the teacher rather than of the scheme , may be very valuable in a classroom . |
| 15 | In the neotropical Lecythidaceae for example all species have large circumscissile capsules , but such uniformity disguises a wide range of variation in the texture of the mesocarp , degree of dehiscence , and development of the aril into a fleshy or winged structure , with the result that different species are dispersed by birds , bats , monkeys , rodents , wind , water and possibly fish . |
| 16 | Monica Seles used these strings for example . |
| 17 | Next after this by far the most important qualification , more important far than special industry or special facility in acquiring native languages for example , is a sense of proportion . |
| 18 | Samarium ( alloyed with cobalt ) produces very powerful magnets , used in lightweight headphones for example . |
| 19 | I mean there are all sorts of little peculiarities for example you do not have to be a member of B A I E at any level to sit B A I E exams . |
| 20 | Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime . |
| 21 | In primary schools for example , whilst the girls tend to know the names of everyone in the class , the boys know the names of the boys only . |
| 22 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 23 | He divided these into more than thirty occupational groupings , some of which , woollen workers for example , could be further subdivided . |
| 24 | Generalist bees are usually faithful over short periods , one species of trigonid bee near M anaus for example visiting 33 species in 21 plant families in 1 year , though at any one time , over 60% of the individuals of the species had only one pollen type and over 23% had only two . |
| 25 | This is true at many levels for example , available documentation tends to become the subject of discussion . |
| 26 | Well if I , if I have ten pounds for example and I want to halve it , what would the answer be ? |
| 27 | Several of the previously mentioned word processors will quite happily mix simple graphics with text ; Lotus 123 charts for example . |
| 28 | Low fat sausages for example contain only a third as much fat as ordinary sausages . |
| 29 | Er there were new types of tools brought into being , er ceramic tools for example on the vertical boring mills . |
| 30 | Finally , where there are important divisions between kinds of culture and society , one might well expect systematic differences between the associated languages for example , it is likely that literacy has systematic effects on the lexical , syntactic and semantic structure of languages , even if these have never been spelt out ( see Goody , 1977 ) . |