Sentence examples for it was an instance of from inspiring English sources

But he said it was an instance of a larger phenomenon.

It was an instance of mass nostalgia, the sharing of bittersweet artifacts from the very recent past.

We have not seen a case like this for a while, but it was an instance of a neighbour applying for a line and somehow the BT system mixed up your phone line with their request.

"It was an instance of not saying: 'No, you can't do that,' but listening to what an artist wants to do and seeing what happens if we do it.

The late arrival of naming rights arrangements in China — a deal that had a local Coca-Cola bottler's name on a soccer stadium in Shaanxi province preceded it — was an instance of Chinese culture's needing to adapt, said Jamie Metzl, executive vice president of the Asia Society.

Robbie thought it was an instance of the actor and role matching up perfectly, with Jessie Buckley giving a barnstorming, foot-stomping central performance.

The algorithm is based on Structural SVMs and it is an instance of SVMstruct.

Like Balti curry, it's an instance of the law of unintended consequences.

Indeed, insofar as each reaches a defensible result, it is because it is an instance of a court doing equity rather than applying law.

There is an ongoing debate whether the P600 event-related potential component following syntactic anomalies reflects syntactic processes per se, or if it is an instance of the P300, a domain-general ERP component associated with attention and cognitive reorientation.

(It's an instance of denying the antecedent).