Sentence examples for precious examples of from inspiring English sources

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.

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).

The Carlton might have gone (for now), but 21 other pubs from the same era have now been safely protected by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport as precious examples of the "improved pub" movement that flourished between the wars.

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).

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.

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.

"Yelled and pulled and hurt my neck" contains a downright precious example of the error called a faulty parallel.

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