Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may partly explain why a speaker or writer opts for a marked theme in a given context . |
| 2 | A business bargain or contract rests on the basic proposition that each party to the contract is in agreement . |
| 3 | Evidently it was one of Marcel Boulestin 's favourite sweetmeats ; a recipe for tomato jam or preserve appears in every one of his cookery books . |
| 4 | Reptiles and amphibians use a three-chambered heart , where blood goes into a separate part of the atrium on its way to the muscles , but the blood on its way back empties into the same ventricle . |
| 5 | In the latter case , where entry depends upon a capacitative mechanism based on an InsP 3 -sensitive pool , the model shown in Fig. 4 transforms into the two-pool model described in detail elsewhere . |
| 6 | We now have to pass the wire all the way through the sleeve so that its bend or fold emerges at the other end . |
| 7 | Where lava erupts from a single vent a low exogenous dome may be formed from a succession of flows , but basaltic lava flows so readily that such features will only develop on nearly level surfaces . |
| 8 | At one extreme were the countries characterized as majoritarian on both dimensions : in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand , for example , power is concentrated into the majority party ; n a two-party ( or virtually so ) system , where rule occurs without a written constitution and with no dispersal of power to subsidiary governments . |
| 9 | These sequences may give rise to a kind of play , in which they are exaggerated , inverted or otherwise re-ordered in such a manner that a regular pattern or rhythm emerges in the finished product . |
| 10 | Two of the judgment tasks were then selected which showed only small correlations with risk ratings or accident estimates for the 24 stimuli used . |
| 11 | This does not mean ‘ just-enough ’ telecommunications on site ; it may also mean the nearness to a micro-wave or satellite TV link or surface links to a major town . |
| 12 | Ubbink 's Sim-Fix is a simple yet effective way of fixing slipped or replacement slates in an existing roof . |
| 13 | Malta , in comparison , must have been a doddle : a civilised , sophisticated holiday island where traffic keeps to the left , letter and telephone boxes are scarlet , the coinage matches ours , and everyone speaks English . |
| 14 | Due to the fact that the sub-contractor when paid on a piecework basis achieves a relatively high hourly rate , most sub-contractors either negotiate an equivalent daywork rate per hour or resist working on daywork and agree rates or lump sums for the particular work involved . |
| 15 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 16 | If an error or warning occurs for a particular module then an appropriate message is output to this log file , but processing continues until all modules in the steering file have been examined . |
| 17 | We are looking for state-backed policies to provide funds for those areas of production where potential exists for a swift expansion of exports . |
| 18 | The physical body or matter vibrates at the slowest or densest frequency ; the subtle body , like electricity , vibrates much faster and for this reason we are usually unaware of its existence . |
| 19 | to show what a library , information source or database includes on a particular subject , and |
| 20 | The first hint that there might be a connection between black holes and thermodynamics came with the mathematical discovery in 1970 that the surface area of the event horizon , the boundary of a black hole , has the property that it always increases when additional matter or radiation falls into the black hole . |
| 21 | Here the reward or payoff acts in a negative way and is a form of punishment . |
| 22 | The lack of either standard or system amounts to the same thing . |
| 23 | It is an arresting paradox — although , admittedly , only a seeming one — that where child-rearing veers to the exact opposite extreme to that represented by the Schreber case and becomes a liberal democracy , or even anarchy in microcosm , the eventual consequence , if I am correct , may well be a totalitarian macrocosm . |
| 24 | What happens when a so-called Third World nation or region says to the imperialist powers , NO , we will not conduct our affairs according to your orders ? |
| 25 | Colonies are easily detected by females at a distance , especially in species where advertisement displays on the many nests are given in synchrony to produce a vivid tree-sized orchestration of sound and movement . |
| 26 | A direct role where collaboration occurs as a direct result of the teacher 's involvement : the teacher decides when collaboration should occur and why , and sets the processes in motion , for example , by asking children to read and comment on one another 's work , by setting a task structured in such a way that the children need to talk to one another and collaborate with one another in order to accomplish it . |
| 27 | Almost a third of a mile of ‘ 00 ’ gauge track — equivalent to 25 miles — plus a stunning ‘ N ’ gauge model of a Bavarian town where time flies with a dramatic change of lighting from day to night every 3 minutes . |
| 28 | Infant sexuality moves into the anal phase next , and some adult sexual aims derive from this phase where interest centres on the erotogenic possibilities of the anus . |
| 29 | Total intraepithelial lymphocytes ( surface and crypt epithelium combined ) as assessed in 1 µm toluidine blue stained epon sections differed insignificantly from treated patients or disease controls in the untreated gluten sensitivity groups ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 30 | Even far from home , they could gain clues to the positions of , say , sea , desert or mountain ranges from the differing sound patterns these features produce . |