Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Producing furniture that is to be used and enjoyed for decades requires a corresponding attention to detail . |
| 2 | An early start for strawberries ensures a full crop the following season , so you should plant out your runners now . |
| 3 | We are living in a remarkable time , when the conflict of opinions renders a firm foundation of knowledge indispensable … |
| 4 | Indeed a recent collection of essays shows a remarkable convergence of opinion among contributors supporting the propositions that Max Weber himself had an eminently post-Enlightenment and ‘ post-metanarrative ’ idea of modernity ( Whimster and Lash 1987 ) . |
| 5 | Given that individual autonomy comprises a fundamental tenet for liberalism , legal enforcement of contracts demands a careful justification , for legal sanctions inevitably place fetters upon a person 's freedom of action . |
| 6 | Moreover , the analysis of skills provides a common topic of research for both art and science historians . |
| 7 | Michelle contacted the Guinness Book of Records whose compilers agreed that the tiniest of tots deserves a special mention . |
| 8 | The result is certainly a change of meaning : The cat sat on the moss ; but in this case it is impossible to find a different sentence in which the same substitution of forms produces a parallel change of meaning . |
| 9 | Elsewhere , near the King 's Head , the discovery of flue-tiles carries a similar interpretation . |
| 10 | A comparison of turn-lengths reveals a marked contrast between the weariness he implicates here and his uncontainable enthusiasm for the subject in scene four . |
| 11 | In conclusion we could say that , as finding the correct thermal niche is the hallmark of natural selection , the likely midway position of dinosaurs seems a logical outcome . |
| 12 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 13 | The specialization of functions has a dispersive effect and a primary function of government becomes that of securing co-ordination amongst the parts . |
| 14 | The Institute of Directors has a total membership of 33,500 , only 2,600 of them women . |
| 15 | His distribution map of sites suggests a strange pattern , with some sites along the main river and others around the confluences of several streams some miles away . |
| 16 | Since N. battus infection of lambs has a unique epidemiology , its control is best considered separately . |
| 17 | Reclamation of tins presents a similar problem to plastics , owing to the diversity of metals used — tin plate , steel , and aluminium . |
| 18 | This concern with the rights of parents masks a continuing failure to establish as a principle the rights of children and young people to take part , or at the very least , have some say , in meetings where decisions about their future will be made . |
| 19 | Weiner 's ( 1986 ) cognitive theory of emotions provides a theoretical framework for the above . |
| 20 | The broad ICD chapter heading of cancers encompasses a whole variety of different types and sites of cancers . |
| 21 | Such a use of sub-committees goes a long way towards achieving an ‘ open ’ management process . |
| 22 | However , the creation of such a workforce of carers requires a heavy investment in training and recruitment as well as substantial on-going budgets . |
| 23 | An odd number of classes provides a neutral mid-point . |
| 24 | Popper 's emphasis on the conscious decisions of individuals introduces a subjective element that clashes somewhat with Popper 's later insistence on science as ‘ a process without a subject ’ . |
| 25 | Every so often , the fumes from an unpredictable cocktail of effluents asphyxiates a luckless sewer worker . |
| 26 | The dominating strategy is non-cooperative : an individual group of workers has a clear interest in standing firm in resisting money wage cuts even though workers en masse may be better off if a cooperative strategy were pursued . |
| 27 | Effective control of the climate of ideas requires a thoughtful approach to the choice of words . |
| 28 | Since much of the discussion and critiques of economic models of bureaucracy focus on Niskanen 's pioneering work , and particularly his Bureaucracy and Representative Government ( 1971 ) , the following survey of ideas adopts a similar approach . |
| 29 | In the absence of a rationale for a particular transformation ( or in the face of competing rationales ) the ladder of powers provides a useful guide . |
| 30 | But if winding up is foreseeable when shares are issued , the limitation of rights has a commercial effect . |