Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new X-terminal offers a large user memory of 30Mb , and fits in with Forefront , Hitachi 's heterogeneous systems integration schema announced in February . |
| 2 | Although this freedom offers a better indicator than such things as matriliny or the worship goddesses , it also is not a clear indicator of the political and economic power , in spite of Engels 's belief to the contrary . |
| 3 | Once again , left ventricular function plays a key role . |
| 4 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 5 | So it may be that IgE-mediated allergy plays a role in more than 20 per cent of cases , when other types of allergen , besides food , are taken into account . |
| 6 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 7 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 8 | First Response offers a single and double test for the woman more unsure of the dates of her cycle or who wants to double-check her results . |
| 9 | Mermaids have been sighted there and a ghost haunts a derelict bothy near the loch . |
| 10 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 11 | The gardener bowerbird , for example , constructs the most remarkably complicated , hut-like bower , while the golden bowerbird builds a maypole bower up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) high , gluing the sticks together with fungus and then decorating the whole structure with fruit , flowers and moss . |
| 12 | MacGregor 's bowerbird builds a complex bower of the ‘ maypole ’ type . |
| 13 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 14 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 15 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 16 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 17 | Answer guide : A creditor represents an amount owing by an enterprise to a third party . |
| 18 | Because the scale is logarithmic , each whole number increment represents a tenfold change in acidity ; thus , solutions of pH 6 , 5 and 4 contain 1 , 10 and 100 microequivalents of acidity ( Hsup+ ; ) per litre respectively ( abbreviated u eq/l ) as illustrated in figure 4.2 . |
| 19 | Sept. 20 : The French referendum produces a vote narrowly in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 20 | Although in the Iliad the word dikē denotes a judgement given by a judge or an assertion by a party to a dispute of his rights , in the Odyssey it signifies ‘ right ’ or ‘ custom ’ . |
| 21 | In a glass case sits a shrivelled liver , which duplicates the function of an Energy Jewel ( 8 Magic Points ) . |
| 22 | The sudden appearance of glucose in the bloodstream and the corresponding rise in blood glucose level evokes a quick response from the pancreas and results in a brief state of apparent overabundance . |
| 23 | Since the Aberfan disaster in 1966 , the law requires that overburden be separated from other waste , and the dumping technique produces a new shape . |
| 24 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 25 | This level of provision represents a very substantial commitment of resources to the enterprise bodies and it should be sufficient to enable them to carry through the wide range of tasks expected of them and to build on their excellent first year of operation . |
| 26 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 27 | The National Curriculum represents a major intellectual challenge for teachers in the coming years . |
| 28 | By contrast to weaning , which represents the loss of a love-object ( the breast ) and which produces a characteristic culturally valued response ( mastery of the ability to postpone oral gratification in the interests of agriculture ) , toilet-training represents a more-or-less voluntary submission to an educative influence and a partial redirection against the self of the sadistic drive which is associated with the anal function . |
| 29 | Robertson 's text offers an analytical if dry survey of the main trends of the Cardinal 's interests , but there is little revelation of his character : surely Haskell 's great example in Patrons and Painters proved the need for obeisance at the shrine of personality . |
| 30 | Only in the last 150 years have a number of these buildings been demolished , but even so it is only in Paris , Chartres and few other instances that an open space in front of the building offers a clear view . |