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None of the books are instructive.
This book is interesting, also instructive.
Not all of the books are instructive.
The story is at once interesting and instructive.
This book is both interesting and instructive.
This book is at once interesting and instructive.
This book is not only more instructive but more interesting than that book.
This novel is both interesting and instructive.
A good biography is interesting and instructive.
His lecture was very instructive as usual.
In my opinion, Tatoeba is a pleasant and instructive pastime.
Movie subtitles
They tell me it's extremely instructive.
I find that vastly instructive, don't you, Dr. Gurkakoff?
When I was a young fella, I attended a temperance lecture. and it was very instructive.
Nonsense. You look as if you had an instructive time.
Instructive?
This is very instructive.
Thank you, that was most instructive.
I'm sure it'll be instructive.
Been an instructive trip, huh?
Let's say it's an instructive travel.
To kill time, I suggest I tell you a story, in which you will find many instructive events.
Excuse me for telling of things which is a sin in itself, but it is a very instructive story.
It's been very instructive.
And now, after this interesting and instructive prologue,. we are privileged to present a great historic ethnic drama.
Might be very instructive.
And instructive.
Very. very instructive.
And now after this interesting and instructive prologue. we are very privileged. to present to you. a great historic drama.
Thank you for a most instructive visit, Lieutenant.
I think you'd rather come with me. It may prove instructive.
These pictures are not particularly instructive but may be of physiognomic interest.
Most instructive. I saw the same two in your room when you were having lunch. - You did?
Very instructive.
Now, if you really feel in an instructive mood.
It was instructive.
I found it very instructive.
Instructive, eh?
I thought it might be instructive for you, M. McNeil.
Actually feeling the anatomy, the consistency of the internal organs, it can be very instructive.
News and current affairs
A look at the eight postcommunist countries just admitted to the European Union is instructive.
But it is instructive to recall that many of those now-universally-admired rules were fiercely resisted when first proposed.
The case of Korea is equally instructive.
Would not monuments to shame be as instructive, if not more so, than monuments to heroism?
All demand is not created equal, though, and it is instructive to examine the differences.
In pondering this question, the case of Mexico-neither an economic tiger like China or Singapore nor a sluggard like many African and Carribean countries-may be especially instructive.
History is instructive.
A similarly instructive case is the West's support for a military crackdown in Algeria after democratic elections in early 1992 threatened to bring the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) to power.
Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, which could win Hungary's elections next spring, provides a particularly instructive example.
Kosovo and Iraq provide instructive examples.
A peculiar but perhaps instructive example comes from the world of professional chess.
Indeed, the record of the International War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), based in The Hague, may be instructive in judging the credibility of the strategy of using such trials as part of the effort to end civil and other wars.
An instructive example of the cosmopolitanism bargain came in 2006, when Great Britain's former foreign minister, Jack Straw, raised concerns about the nijab, the full-head covering worn by some Muslim women.
The Nixon administration's legacy is particularly instructive in assessing the Bush record.
Comparisons with neighboring Turkey are instructive.
Spain's experience is instructive in this respect.
Hirschman's framework, which is instructive in helping us to think about how loyalty and affection can be generated, suggests that it cannot.
The struggle of Iraq's Kurds should be instructive.
The debate in my native Denmark is instructive, as the relevant government ministries have outlined what this decision will end up costing here, which in turn suggests the total cost for the EU.
The differences are highly instructive.
But a comparison with what happened outside the affected area is instructive.
The European Union is even more instructive, because centuries of war, culminating in the two World Wars of the twentieth century, inspired, rather than deterred, European economic, political and security integration.
The response in Turkey - where as many as 50 possible cases have appeared in the eastern part of the country - is instructive.