What the examples show

The examples show …

This example shows …

The example demonstrates …

These examples indicate

What these examples clearly illustrate is that …

This serves to illustrate …

… provides strong empirical evidence of or for …

each point is illustrated with examples

The case of … illustrates how or why …

The case or example is instructive because or as it provides …

as the examples below show or demonstrate

as is evident from …

the example of … has often been cited as …

As an illustration, compare the following examples

evidence from actual studies of … shows …

evidence also exists that …

in a recent etc. survey of …

There may be further evidence for …

The examples suggest …

What is the empirical basis or evidence for …?

… (unpublished data)

anecdotal evidence

the evidence for … is purely anecdotal

This clearly illustrates the problem of …

a counterexample to …

There are no examples of …

Interviews

In interviews, respondents stated that …

Typical responses were …

Typical statements were …

Typical comments by interviewees were …

…, as mentioned by several respondents

The following quote illustrates …

As one interviewee stated, …

X states, for example, that …

This was expressed by one respondent as …