It was beneficial for architects to learn from past examples how to connect buildings to the street and to one another.

And Mayor Koch should look to that past example for ways of dealing with our problems today.

And there are plenty of past examples to look to.

A past example of inequality as a social problem is slavery in America.

A more exquisite example of "tourist" art, past or present, is impossible to imagine.

Nintendo's goal, then, became the differentiation of their system from the past examples.

There are a number of historical examples, past and present, which can be interpreted in part to revanchism.

These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression.

Q. Can you give some past examples of bad fundamental developments?

When we are out of range, past examples cannot be reliable guides to the future.