Example sentences of "[subord] in [det] instance [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not have to be the value paired with the summary value for X , although in this instance it happens also to be the value for the other South East . |
| 2 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 3 | As one recent treatise on business ethics put it , ‘ If in some instance it turns out that what is ethical leads to a company 's demise , so be it . ’ |
| 4 | It is useless if you are fishing any distance from the bank , or even close to the bank but a distance downstream , for in this instance it may attract fish past your baited hook and to the source of the feed . |
| 5 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |