"give an instance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to provide an example to illustrate your point. For example, "To demonstrate the importance of using sunscreen, I will give an instance of someone who developed skin cancer after years of not using any."
To give an instance, such an important scene as Dumbledore's funeral is omitted in the film.
Unions in Britain have been asking for years for someone to give an instance of when core labour standards have been used as a protectionist measure.
(In saying a single differentia by itself I mean such an isolated differentia as Cleft-footed; in saying a single differentia with antecedent I mean, to give an instance, Manycleft-footed preceded by Cleft-footed.
To give an instance, we have chosen PS nanospheres of four diameters (223 nm, 347 nm, 509 nm, 1300 nm) to fabricate colloidal-crystal films by adjusting the spin speed and acceleration, and we have investigated the relationship between the monolayer coverage areas and spin parameters by designing different spin speed and acceleration for 509 nm nanosphere.
The squabble took place in 1946 in a Cambridge tutorial room, where Wittgenstein either did or did not threaten Popper with a poker and Popper either did or did not, when asked by Wittgenstein to give an instance of a moral rule, say, "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers".
The squabble took place in 1946 in a Cambridge tutorial room, where Wittgenstein either did or did not threaten Popper with a poker and Popper either did or did not, when asked by Wittgenstein to give an instance of a moral rule, say, "Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers". The authors conclude that the poker incident happened but that the line was strictly a wishful afterthought.
Given an instance of an edge, I can print it.
Specifically, given an instance on which an algorithm fails, we bound the additional power the manipulators need in order to succeed.
Given an instance of the knapsack problem, Alice chooses a knapsack solution and Bob, knowing Alice's solution, chooses a cardinality k.
Given an instance of the Steiner tree problem together with an optimal solution, we consider the scenario where this instance is modified locally by adding one of the vertices to the terminal set or removing one vertex from it.
