Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast to US mass production where work arrives on a conveyor belt , Japanese workers often move with the production line … |
| 2 | Such agents will therefore affect the learning process even though they are not directly part of it , in the same way as the tone or volume controls on a tape recorder affect the recording and playing of the tape even though they are not directly part of the message the tape carries . |
| 3 | ‘ The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large , but mostly one who , through ignorance or stupidity steals in a way that is not customary . |
| 4 | Each OR symbol acts as a name for the set of symbols { P , Q , R , … } on the right sides of its productions . |
| 5 | difficulties ensuring discipline , either because of uncertainties over parental status or power struggles in a remarriage where the partner adopts the child . |
| 6 | Lord Denning M.R. said that liability extends to a case where a ‘ third person prevents or hinders one party from performing his contract , even though it be not a breach . ’ |
| 7 | The vital ingredient that serum provides to a medium is lipid , which cells need to maintain the integrity of their outer membranes . |
| 8 | But McNab continued as he always had , grave and rather lugubrious , knowing that given time , the " cholera cloud " would move on , too , and that his own view would come to be accepted but this would only happen imperceptibly and not , perhaps , like a cloud passing , but more in the way that sediment settles in a glass of muddy water . |
| 9 | Skinner argued that behaviour occurs as a function of previous experiences and that , given a clear understanding of the contingent relations between the environment and a specific behaviour in the past , it is possible to predict , with a very high degree of accuracy , the conditions under which that behaviour will occur in the future . |
| 10 | Delay created by these reasons , both human and procedural , can prove extremely frustrating to the parties , most particularly to the plaintiff who will feel that delay amounts to a denial of justice . |
| 11 | Referring principally to those techniques of soil conservation developed by research stations and government institutions , many studies of the economics of soil conservation which focus on the private economic incentives for soil conservation , show that , although total benefits from a soil conservation scheme such as terracing may be more than the total cost , individual farmers usually lose income from these practices ( Harshbarger & Swanson 1964 , Holtman & Connor 1974 ) . |
| 12 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 13 | This theory states that motivation comes from a combination of personalizing the consequences of unhealthy behaviours and developing the self-efficacies or coping skills to change one 's behaviour . |
| 14 | And as it 's open-ended , that series — the thing that Pool represents as a wall — will eventually fill up every spare molecule of memory that Pool has . |
| 15 | He argues that science moves within a world of ideas . |
| 16 | Quinney ( 1977 ) and Jankovic ( 1977 ) have argued that prison acts as a way of reducing the size of the reserve army of labour . |
| 17 | I do n't get tired unlike some of the other drivers and experience counts for a lot in this sport |
| 18 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 19 | One sermon to urge the duty of penance and confession tells of a woman who had committed a sin which she could not bring herself to confess for shame . |
| 20 | For example , there are two sum icons — a 2D sum that sums the cells to the left or above the cursor and can even fill in the row and column totals for a block ; and a 3D sum that consolidates data in the pages behind it — so you can do cookie-cutter sums on a whole range in one go . |
| 21 | The distinction between rationalism and empiricism relates to a distinction between knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge acquired by the senses . |
| 22 | His film debut prompted Richard Winnington to write that Brando 's ‘ combination of style , depth and range comes like a blood transfusion into cinema acting ’ . |
| 23 | Despite these problems , most LDCs are increasing their education expenditures as the lack of skills and knowledge acts as a barrier to economic progress . |
| 24 | At first glance , Tony wearing his off-duty clothes , a panama hat and blazer looks like a cricket umpire , but his line of work is far , far battier . |
| 25 | But the fundamental incommensurability of idea and event re-emerges in a precariousness in this narrativization of history where each disturbance in the writing punctuates it with the unassimilable , discontinuous and disjunctive temporality of the event . |
| 26 | The need for further discussion and debate arises from a number of issues . |
| 27 | Similarly , the apparent text of my obsessive orderliness read , ‘ Form and order make for efficiency , and efficiency makes for a well-structured , meaningful life ’ , while the sub-text read , ‘ Unless I impose some form and order on life , I shall lose control , chaos will ensue , and life will become meaningless . ’ |
| 28 | This is exactly what would be expected if alcohol acts as a spindle disrupting agent . |
| 29 | Place the carrots , sauce , butter beans , Edam and egg yolks in a food processor . |
| 30 | He still has his portrait , painted in blood and grass stains by a colleague . |