Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] example by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ministers , especially those working in suburban areas and themselves graduates of universities , accepted the need for great decorum but decried liturgical worship ; R. F. Horton attacked prescribed prayers , as used for example by Wesleyan Methodists , as belonging ‘ to a pre-Christian epoch ’ . |
| 2 | Soft lighting is deliberately used for example by restaurateurs to induce a feeling of relaxation , enhance the enjoyment of the meal , and promote pleasurable conversation . |
| 3 | Patristic doctrine ( which it might be expected that one who is Orthodox should revere ) , when expounded for example by the Cappadocians ( the authors in large part of the doctrine of the trinity ) is that the persons of the trinity are alike in all respects save in their mutual relations . |
| 4 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 5 | It is true , I think , that there is a certain sort of eclecticism , practised for example by some neo-Freudian writers such as Erich Fromm or by the American ‘ ego psychologists ’ , which may undermine anything useful that Freudian theory really has to offer . |