Sentence examples for is a fine instance from inspiring English sources

Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate) is a fine instance of the new school of landscape-writing pioneered by Robert Macfarlane, vividly charting a slice of Sussex.

The drought is a fine instance of the argument that just because you can buy something – in this case, as much water as you like, even with penalty pricing – doesn't mean you should.

For instance, for handling stolen goods of less than £1,000 the usual starting point is a fine or low-level community penalty.

But it's also interesting as a fine instance of a strikingly newish kind of thing: the serious and even scholarly biography of a much gossiped-over pop figure, where the old Kitty Kelley-style scandal-sheet bio is turned into a properly documented and footnoted study that nonetheless trades on, or at least doesn't exclude, the sensational bits.

It's a fine quotation, a rare instance when adspeak and literature unite.

For instance, there's a fine set piece where he has Woland pose as a conjuror promising to reveal the secrets behind his tricks in a sellout theatre show – and so makes us question the nature of the novel's already precarious reality.

Anyway, it's a fine, fine game.

It was a fine.

They thought about other careers -- Ken, for instance, was a fine-arts consultant for a period too brief to remember -- but they kept coming back to music.

For him, it is a paradigm instance.

California is an extreme instance.