The phrase "a substantive example" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to provide a meaningful or significant illustration of a concept or idea.
Example: "To better understand the theory, let me provide a substantive example from recent research."
Alternatives: "a meaningful example" or "a significant example".
We use a common substantive example throughout the paper to facilitate our discussion of the RCM.
It does so through a discussion of the substantive example of research to evaluate the design of a purpose built inpatient psychiatric health care facility, opened in 2010 as part of the National Health Service (NHS) in England.
The critical response to our essay, of which Hare and Lupton's critique is just one (unusually substantive) example, underlines the powerful hold in U.S. political culture of the idea that citizens vote for politicians primarily because they agree with them on the issues.
One substantive example, however, is the Mobile Academy, implemented by BBC Media Action as part of the Ananya project in Bihar, India, which has used IVR technology to deliver training on maternal and child health to more than 27,000 remote community health workers.
Politicians should be able to shoulder a little unfairness, but our ability to recognise and condemn substantive examples of coded bigotry not in short supply in contemporary America is somewhat confounded by the kind of overreach we see in this article.
The claim that there are substantive examples of individual essences has had few defenders.
Anecdotal evidence and substantive examples were key to supporting such beliefs in the absence of quantitative evidence.
The re-review of previously coded transcript materials provided substantive examples of how in-depth analysis of responses was stimulated by analysis of coding frequency results.
Small changes to the number of false negatives did not have a substantive difference in this example.
