Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the example " in BNC.
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| 1 | yet despite common observation , and despite the example of physics , the essentialist view of species has almost universally been abandoned . |
| 2 | Wordsworth had also been experimenting with blank verse , and with the example of Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight before him , was able to reproduce ‘ the movement of the mind ’ in Tintern Abbey . |
| 3 | As I understand the matter , there could be a fair number of such voyages , and the only basis for charge would be on the cost to the employer , and in the example that we are considering that would be very small . |
| 4 | They are sometimes used for previewing activity , or they can be used as recall devices for language study and practice as they are in the " Focus " section of Family Affair ( see Video Plan 7 ) and in the example in Video Plan 9 . |
| 5 | Both variables are listed in Appendix A and the 42 countries are named in Appendix F. The same variables are used in the statistical examples in Chapter 3 and in the example of the use of the GIMMS plotter mapping system ( Section 4.3.2 ) . |
| 6 | So amidst the doom and gloom that seems to cloud the the African horizon , we can see that aid does work and in the example I 've just given , that it works indeed for children . |
| 7 | I did not have to pretend that he was a great man : by his acts , his understanding , and his solicitude , and by the example he set and maintained of standards higher than those of his fellows , he showed himself to be one . |
| 8 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 9 | Since in the example the memory bank is composed of one bit-plane , the resulting image shown on the TV monitor can have one of only two values at each pixel point : the value 0 ( meaning ‘ black ’ ) and the value 1 ( meaning ‘ white ’ ) . |
| 10 | As with the example lately considered , it is evident that ( 3 ) is entailed by the given part of ( 5 ) together with a statement of the occurrence of c " , c " … |
| 11 | When we want to compare two populations , as with the example of towns A and B above , we must apply the same ( standard ) weighting scheme to both ; this gives a standardized death rate ( SDR ) . |
| 12 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 13 | If there was not a ‘ ceiling ’ to potency level then serial dilution would not be needed to make a remedy , one could simply shake any dilution for different lengths of time as in the example give above . |
| 14 | The transmission may be simple , the shout ‘ You are standing on my foot ! ’ or a phone conversation , or it may be complicated , as in the example of this book , involving a variety of people who are employed in the publishing , printing , and bookselling businesses . |
| 15 | Example 2 is a typical Hendrix-style fill which sets up either a G major chord ( as in the example ) or an E minor chord . |
| 16 | In reality , the asset would form part of the ‘ general pool ’ of plant and machinery and the tax benefit of the balancing allowance would not be realised as early as in the example . |
| 17 | Staff groups may be for one school only , or , as in the example above , meet across feeder schools ( whose staffs may otherwise still work in splendid isolation from each other ) to great mutual benefit . |
| 18 | In contrast , where we expand the protected interests to include loss of profits , as in the example of the dentist 's wasted time , the test of personal responsibility is likely to require consent or knowledge of the probability of loss . |
| 19 | On some computers such instructions are special cases of normal instructions , as in the example above ; another example might be a multiples length move instruction , with the number of words to be moved specified as zero . |
| 20 | Here , as in the example of thinking a question , we have what were earlier called representative contents , or the most important ones . |
| 21 | We are given unc and we border B as in ( 1 ) and apply our solution to obtain unc The working is then exactly as in the example just given . |
| 22 | Try for yourself : write down 20 disconnected articles and rapidly associate , as in the example above , each successive pair from beginning to end . |
| 23 | Any spreadsheet can include more than one page and you can use commands and formula between and across pages — for example you can write a sum that adds the contents of the same cell in a number of pages as in the example shown here where the fourth page of the spreadsheet summarises three month 's sales collected on the three previous pages . |
| 24 | A LIFESPAN Process account can be disusered ( as in the example shown in Figure 1.2 ) since it is only ever used for starting the ( detached ) LIFESPAN Process(es) . |
| 25 | Ants may hinder dispersal , however , as in the example of the aggressive arboreal weaver ant , Oecophylla longinoda , which reduces the dispersal of F. capensis syconia in West Africa by deterring night visitors such as bats . |
| 26 | By the Cretaceous , insect damage is very pronounced as in the example of hundreds of cycad cones that have been examined : 22.2% of them had damage especially noticeable in those with mature pollen-bearing organs . |
| 27 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 28 | When there is no head ( i.e. no stressed syllable preceding the tonic syllable ) , as in the example ‘ in an hour ’ . |