The phrase "a good instance of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific example that effectively illustrates a particular quality or characteristic.
Example: "This painting is a good instance of the artist's unique style and technique."
Alternatives: "a prime example of" or "a notable case of".
If you want a good instance of the results of that folly, take a look at the far from untypical block between Eighty-seventh and Eighty-eighth on Fifth Avenue.
Again, a good instance of grubbing up, with controlled explosions and pickaxes instead of felling and burning! bSee my book Postmodernismo y apocalipsis.
As a result, saying that the law must be thus-and-so in order to be a good instance of its kind does not commit one to any thick evaluative claims.
For example, some seriously flawed attempts to play a difficult piece by Chopin are nonetheless performances of that work, even though they lack qualities that a proper or a good instance of the work would have.
However, if we change to doxastic considerations, then the argument that you should believe that candidate \(X\) is the one best suited for public office because if you do not believe this you will be evicted from your apartment, certainly is a good instance of irrelevant evidence.
Nozick takes the choice available to Israelis between membership and non-membership in kibbutzim to be a good instance of a choice between such options and notes that around six percent of the adult population of Israel in the 1970s had chosen the socialist option.
Slavery is a good instance — there was absolutely no shortage of articulate and eloquent people for whom slavery was an absolute evil.
But the comparison, like all good instances of cross-cutting, makes each image reveal something about the other.
Compensation for services of general economic interest that have only a minor impact on the internal market is frequently granted on a strictly limited and local basis, and is therefore a good example of an instance where exemption would be decided on.
"There have been a good few instances of people getting it wrong," Glynn says.
