Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interrupt causes the current PSW to be stored ( in main storage ) and a new PSW to be loaded . |
| 2 | Some people believe that hearing the results of opinion polls before an election sways individuals towards the winning candidate . |
| 3 | As an election approaches , the Libertarian Ideal legitimizes a switch towards more strident press partisanship , while the Public Service Ideal encourages television to be even more careful than usual to maintain balance and impartiality . |
| 4 | As an election approaches , the government of the day will pump money into the economy and so engineer a boom , lower unemployment , and win popular support at the polls in the hope of securing another term in government . |
| 5 | Predicting who is going to win an election makes good newspaper copy . |
| 6 | Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority , the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | ‘ The fact that there is an election has got everything to do with this . ’ |
| 8 | Contrariwise , one may be able to vote provided that one is in fact registered even though one was not entitled to be registered — the register , when published , is conclusive ( ibid , s.49 ) once notice of an election has been given , although it may be amended on specified grounds prior to that date ( ibid , s.11 ) . |
| 9 | Even on the government 's estimates , which may be too hopeful , it will not be achieved until 1995 — and meantime an election has to be held , by May next year . |
| 10 | Ask the electoral registration officer for an application form ( RPF9 ) as soon as an election has been announced and you know that you will not be able to vote in person . |
| 11 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 12 | The object is to build a picture of standards not to catch people out and if the expectation of an inspection causes staff to be that much more diligent so much the better . |
| 13 | An inspection has revealed nothing wrong . |
| 14 | Such an excuse exists if an accused ‘ damaged … the property in question … in order to protect property belonging to himself or another … and at the time of the act … alleged to constitute the offence he believed — ( i ) that the property … was in immediate need of protection ; and ( ii ) that the means of protection adopted … were … reasonable having regard to all the circumstances ’ . |
| 15 | Indeed , the optic lobe contains a wealth of neurons which respond specifically to elaborate patterns of motion , such as the optic flow fields generated on a retina when an insect turns around or flies over the ground , but there have been disappointingly few descriptions of neurons with interesting spatial properties . |
| 16 | When an insect alights on water , the surface is dimpled by its legs and thus extended and so the surface energy is increased . |
| 17 | The wing of an insect presents three margins ( Fig. 25 ) : the anterior margin or costa ( a-b ) ; the outer or apical margin . |
| 18 | The cuticle of an insect forms a more or less hardened exoskeleton and , although perfectly continuous over the whole body , it remains flexible along certain definite , usually transverse , lines . |
| 19 | The outer form and the behaviour of the creature are thus always at one — man does not try to flap his arms and fly , any more than an insect seeks out the sex pheromones of another species as if they were its own . |
| 20 | When she hunts , she whirls this around her head and releases it as an insect flies by . |
| 21 | A hole shows where an insect has left a gall . |
| 22 | After an insect has emerged from the egg the completed head shows few indications of a segmented origin apart from the fact that it carries paired appendages . |
| 23 | The stinging of the tree by an insect causes the tree to make for it a house of green light , a balloon of anti-matter , a jewel to adorn the nakedness of the bough . |
| 24 | When an insect comes near , she straightens out her legs and holds the net above her head and so entraps it . |
| 25 | If an insect walks by , she grabs it and instantly drags it inside the tunnel . |
| 26 | As with other invertebrates the combination of brachiopod types in an assemblage gives a quick clue to the age . |
| 27 | Recovery of eggs from such an eminence presents certain problems . |
| 28 | An earnout provides a mechanism for vendors to receive some of the benefit of future profit growth which , owing to past performance of the target , a purchaser may not be prepared to pay for at completion . |
| 29 | An advancement means a sum of money paid to a child to start him in business or to make a permanent provision for him ; it does not include casual payments given as a present or to help to tide over temporary difficulties . |
| 30 | If an exposure does occur , a blood sample should be obtained from the individual from whom exposure occurred and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HIV antibody . |