Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a example " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in using as an example the books of Joyce Porter featuring the gross , lazy and self-indulgent Inspector Dover we have already touched on this difficult combination of crime ( which is , after all , a serious matter almost all of the time ) and farce , and these two types of book are , of course , closely linked . |
| 2 | Lavandera illustrates this point , using as an example the tendency for cocoliche speakers to avoid indirect speech , which in certain types of Spanish clause is an obligatory environment for the subjunctive . |
| 3 | He was obviously serving as an example . |
| 4 | ‘ However , with the help of considerable capital funding from the ITI , and through a joint venture approach with Sutton Borough Council , who provided capital , land and an annual subsidy , the original concept has been developed into a working model aimed at serving as an example for other local authorities to consider . ’ |
| 5 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 6 | Looking at an example of one such fraud will indicate this basic procedure . |
| 7 | Looking at an example from recognition test data , an original handwritten word was students , but was recognised as sludents . |
| 8 | Coveney argues that evidence for viewing such examples as alternants might be adduced from the linguistic behaviour of speakers , citing as an example the following incident where he heard a Frenchwoman asking a younger man the following question , using an [ SVQ ] variant : ‘ Tu es d'où ? ’ |
| 9 | We can not really discuss problem solving without an example , so I am going to discuss a rather large problem , namely Rubik 's cube . |
| 10 | He pointed out the importance of having both long and short term memory — ‘ you do n't want to clutter up your brain with information that is irrelevant long term ’ , he said , giving as an example the way you would look at traffic approaching as you crossed a street — you need to recall the situation for only a few seconds . |
| 11 | Pupils may well need to look beyond the immediate local area , the further back they go , though starting with an example not too far away can still be useful , and allows for field visits . |
| 12 | Sir Thomas denies this vigorously , claiming as an example that the board will now look at ten options in the acute strategy review instead of the four announced publicly last November . |
| 13 | He cites a Brooklyn playground shooting as an example . |