Sentence examples for precious example from inspiring English sources

Channel 4 is the UK's increasingly precious example of this in television – supporting over 350 companies across the UK, generating over 25,000 jobs and driving a significant proportion of the export value of our creative industries.

And one precious example in the show, a wood-block scroll from the Jin dynasty (1115-1234), with a frontispiece illustration of the preaching Buddha, was the focus of a wartime adventure.

Freshly snatched from China's orbit, Myanmar has been reconnected to a steady flow of aid and investment from Western countries whose governments are happy to regard it as a rare and precious example of political and economic development gone right.Losing 9m people overnight has a nice side-effect or two.

But he also set a precious example of physicianly humility too often since forgotten.

For Americans given over to unlimited individualism and a loud, relentless acquisition of material things, he may be difficult to accept, but he offers a precious example of a life more fully human, a life of balance, of sharing of material things and of care for one another.

The suitcases held some precious examples of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century bead-and-cloth appliqué work.

These candlestick figures are rare and precious examples of courtly life in the Romanesque period in Germany, France, England, and Scandinavia.

The only comparable pieces of this kind locally are a few precious examples in the Met's collection.

With precious examples of silk brocades, tapestries and embroideries, including Buddhist ritual pieces, dating from the Jin to Qing dynasty, it gives a vivid sense of the material past in a powerful imperial culture (Cotter).

Precious examples of this period are two manuscripts, the well-known Codices Millenarius Maior (Inv. No. CC Cim 1, Fig. 1a) and Millenarius Minor (Inv. No. CC Cim 2, Fig. 1b).

Even with government help, bids may not be high enough to tempt banks to deal, since any price below the carrying value would force them to take a write-down and deplete precious capital.An example of this problem is adjustable-rate mortgages.