Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Melodic characteristics depend on a composer 's idiom , and in turn are chief elements in the formation of that idiom . |
| 2 | The model assumes that many genes and environmental influences contribute to an individual 's position on an underlying continuous scale of liability but that disease is present only in those who fall above a critical threshold value . |
| 3 | In the Gulbenkian Report the clear exposition of the idea that the arts mediate between an individual 's inner being and the external world , and that this gives an educational role to arts activities in the development of pupil personality , appears to have impressed not only arts educators but almost all those administrators , such as GRIST coordinators , who were responsible for programmes which included an arts element . |
| 4 | Both nationalized industries and local authorities publish a good deal of information on their various and diverse activities ( see chapters 8 and 10 ) In Type A nonprofit organizations the level of revenue raised is often regarded as indicative of the value that recipients place on an organization 's services . |
| 5 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 6 | His eyes resemble dish-telescopes that seem to look right through his friends , and he sees the psychic energy people emit as an astrophysicist 's radio-telescope ‘ sees ’ sounds bounced off distant galaxies . |
| 7 | However , we know very little in a systematic way about the circumstances under which this is considered a desirable option , or the terms under which young people live in a relative 's household . |
| 8 | But the relationship between the ‘ army of administrators at their desks ’ and the eventual supply of a public service to beneficiaries in society , is so complex that it is difficult to disentangle the contributions which different strands make to an individual 's utility function . |
| 9 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 10 | A man has been remanded on bail charged with possessing drugs after a police raid on a travellers ' camp . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , I distinc'ly 'eard one of o' yer men swear after an umpire 's decision . ’ |
| 12 | A CHELMSFORD student spent a month in eastern Europe helping a former Iron Curtain country develop into a tourist 's mecca . |
| 13 | The soldiers race into a wasps ' nest , driving the occupants out . |
| 14 | Biological factors operate throughout an individual 's life with differing degrees of importance at different stages . |
| 15 | erm I 'm not sure that Anne , erm with her special knowledge of French politics , would n't be better at this than me , but these thoughts come through a historian 's head . |
| 16 | Reactions to stress to some extent depend on a child 's age . |
| 17 | Good habits contribute to a horse 's physical and psychological well-being ; whereas bad habits frequently impair the horse 's health or behaviour in some way . |