The phrase "as instances of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to specific examples or occurrences of a broader category or concept.
Example: "The researchers documented several cases as instances of a larger trend in consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "as examples of a" or "as cases of a".
These categorial items, conceived of as instances of a certain kind of being, are called by Wyclif 'essences' (essentiae).
To be a good historian requires a 'concentrated interest in particular events or persons or situations as such, and not as instances of a generalisation' (1978b, 138).
The chapter concludes with a description of a number of bipedal and quadrupedal robots as instances of a bio-inpired approach to design.
With generalisation to other tasks in mind, these detectors are presented as instances of a generic neural-swarm layered architecture for visual saliency computation.
According to Goodman, the rules of logic are in turn valid because they are more or less in accordance with what we intuitively accept as instances of a valid deductive inference (FFF: 64).
To create and verify such refinements, behavioral models capturing recon- figuration or communication scenarios are presented as instances of a dynamic meta-model, i.e., a typed graph transformation system specifying the concepts and basic operations scenarios may be composed of.
The mSTRAP (Mutation extraction and STRucture Annotation Pipeline) system [ 9] was developed with the aim of annotating mutations and representing them as instances of an ontology.
The mSTRAP system created by [ 7] is developed to extract mutations, represent them as instances of an ontology and use the mSTRAPviz client to query the populated ontology and visualize the mutations and annotations on protein structures / homology models.
Kripke regards theoretical identities such as 'water = H2O', where one of the terms is a description, as instances of such a posteriori necessary identities.
Gillon (1992) and Nicolas (2010) can be seen as instances of such a mixed view,[9] with an additional component, namely "aggregations" or "coverings" (see section 8 below).
We approximated this by considering the sequences of an MSA as instances of our random variable.
