classic instance

collocation in English

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classic
adjective
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/ˈklæs.ɪk/us
/ˈklæs.ɪk/
having a high quality or standard against which other things ...
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instance
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.stəns/us
/ˈɪn.stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that ...
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(Definition ofclassicandinstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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As such, it is aclassicinstanceof beneficence twisted into paternalism.
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This is aclassicinstance.
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This was aclassicinstance.
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The broiler industry is aclassicinstance.
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Take theclassicinstanceof football.
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That is aclassicinstanceof the same point.
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Here is aclassicinstancewhere that could be done.
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Traffic management is aclassicinstanceof interference for the sake of interfering.
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There is theclassicinstance, of course, of the brick-setters.
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This is aclassicinstanceof why the closed shop is so venal.
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Then he gave aclassicinstanceof one parish of 25,000 people.
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That example smacks of desperation, and is aclassicinstanceof arguing from extreme cases.
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Theclassicinstanceis the condition known asspina bifida.
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Theclassicinstanceof that is the case of land known to be subject to flooding.
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That would have been aclassicinstanceof preparing for the wrong war.
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Let me take what may be termed theclassicinstanceof the sympathetic strike.
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There is aclassicinstanceof a man who enforced his bond to his own undoing.
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This is aclassicinstanceof legislating first and repenting at leisure.
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This is aclassicinstanceof administrative simplicity triumphing over common sense.
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If ever there was aclassicinstancewhich invited a collective punishment upon that area, that was it.
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The general question of motor cycle noise is aclassicinstanceof noise emitted by an internationally traded commodity.
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Theclassicinstanceof that is provided by civil servants or judges, since obviously their functions disqualify them.
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I referred to theclassicinstancemerely because it has been taken by so many in argument.
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Protection of the ozone layer is aclassicinstanceof the need for action on an international basis.
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