Such a simple response that I'm embarrassed to have needed to ask for it! I had myself convinced the fix would come with the example environment and not tabular.
I greatly appreciate your help, this worked perfectly!
I use the package Covington for examples, which when used with the tabular environment by default places the example number (e.g. (1)) to the left of the example horizontally but centered vertically with the example. I was wondering how to go about placing the number ...