Example sentences of "in [det] instances " in BNC.

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1 How beautiful , how devoid of everything like the handicraft of art it is — the largeness , and yet ingenuity of its effect — the purity of its colour — the truth , yet refinement and elegance of the action , particularly of the hands ( in which he particularly excels ) ; and then , a lesson to all high-minded slovens , the patient vigilance with which the whole is linked together , by touches , in some instances small almost as a miniature , but like the sparkling of water .
2 However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos .
3 All the same , museum curators will have carried out a critical task in selecting the exhibition , in some instances having fended off proposals for inclusions with a political or a particular cultural bias .
4 True , in some instances the USA does offer better conditions than the UK , but Americans also possess a positive mental attitude towards success and achievement .
5 In some instances a lift will be the solution to your problem of access .
6 The first seven days of heavy fighting and shelling have caused a large number of casualties ; the Commando units in some instances are down to less than half strength .
7 In some instances ‘ sameness ’ comes to signify the tyranny of Western patriarchal metaphysics , and homosexuality its practice or , more vaguely , its metaphor .
8 such as copper-alloy knives , archers ' wristguards of stone and , in some instances , even personal ornaments made of gold .
9 Nowadays the problem is quite the reverse : medical science is generally able to determine whether D's conduct caused the death , and innovations such as life-support machines mean that life can be prolonged for months and years in some instances .
10 Growers aiming to burn must make every reasonable effort to notify county fire brigades , district council environmental health departments , occupiers of all adjacent premises and , in some instances , air traffic control of their intentions between one and 24 hours in advance .
11 In some instances the opposite may be true .
12 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 .
13 In some instances they temporised : in May 1221 they conceded that ‘ the knights and free tenants of the forest of Berkshire ’ should elect ‘ two law-worthy and discreet knights ’ of their number to keep the forest , under the Chief Justice of the Forest , until Henry III came of age , when a final decision would be made about disafforestment .
14 Indeed , there is a time lag in the uptake of many research ideas of up to at least a decade in some instances ( 18 ) .
15 In some instances failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60% , a level at which breeding replacements can not be obtained thus leading to the possibility of economic collapse .
16 In some instances two of the teams are similar , while the third differs ; in others , all three differ .
17 In some instances , their work supplements the work of professionally-trained personnel ; in other situations , they function independently of professionals ; and in many parts of the world they are the only people available to provide front-line services to people in need .
18 Abies , Abrotanum humile , Acacia , Acanthus spinosus , Anonis , Anthemis and Antholyza were all used and in some instances butterflies and insects were added .
19 In some instances the imperatives of lower order needs may preclude the possibility of following higher order needs .
20 In some instances , the followings of different leaders competed with each other for different favours .
21 In some instances degreaser concentrates can be used when heavily diluted as hard surface cleaners .
22 The inquiry reported that the evidence which they had received to date did not prove conclusively that such activities had taken place , but ‘ in some instances circumstantial evidence in support of the complaint has been very strong ’ ( NCCL , 1984 ) .
23 The pilots and crew had , in some instances , been able to trek overland to safety but the aircraft , valued at many millions , would remain there imprisoned forever .
24 In some instances the patient is very ill on admission and in these circumstances explanations and introductions have a lower priority than life-sustaining treatment and nursing .
25 Each planner is individually responsible for putting forward suggestions of suitable issues ; in some instances these can be the result of maverick ideas , and in others they are achieved through a more down-to-earth type of thought .
26 These discussions are held on an informal basis mainly within the planning department , but in some instances the opinions of other departments are sought .
27 Such activities , however , especially where wildlife habitats and wildscapes are concerned , often have adverse and environmentally degrading consequences which , in some instances , are leading to the destruction of the very resource that attracts the visitors .
28 In some instances such data will suffice ; in many cases they will have to suffice as nothing better is available .
29 On the one hand these groups , which in some respects mark the bridge between the old and the new philanthropy , were the first to focus their attention directly on urban working-class ( and in some instances lower-middle-class ) youth , rather than on children and adolescents , or women and girls .
30 But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary .
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