Sentence examples for this is an instance of from inspiring English sources

"This is an instance of just moving a revenue source away".

This is an instance of a place-value notation, in which the position of a number in a numerical configuration has a mathematical meaning.

It's hard to know the scale of the violence, but I finished my reporting convinced that this is an instance of mass rape.

But in part, I think this is an instance of what Stephen Greenblatt, in his book "Marvellous Possessions", terms "mimetic blockage".The book is about the crisis of values and ideologies that accompanied the European encounter with the New World.

This is an instance of the famous imperfective paradox.

(This is an instance of a more general 'qua-problem'.

This was an instance of decades colliding.

Ghostwriter Andrew Morton pointed out that this was an instance of "the casual cattiness and cliquishness of children...which often remains as a canker in the psyche well into adult life".

Because civilians were not killed, historians have debated whether this was an instance of "total war" (other examples being the bombing of Dresden, Tokyo, or Hiroshima during World War II) or one of "hard war".

Whether this was an instance of purposive diachronic redistribution is less clear.

This was an instance of the brakes being put on not for pork -- but for principle.