Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a biological catalyst , a catalyst being something that encourages a chemical reaction to proceed at a faster rate than it would do normally . |
| 2 | Sadly , there is no respite for parents ; this is the time that offers a brief opportunity to make an encouraging or acknowledging remark . |
| 3 | Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive . |
| 4 | It 's a large operating system that needs a hard drive to hold the extensive files that come with it , but has many redeeming features . |
| 5 | It has hardly been recognised that India is among the few countries in the world that has a proven capability to undertake orbital missions or detonate a nuclear device . |
| 6 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 7 | The current traditional system of approving individual courses is clearly inadequate : it neither takes into account the way in which institutions manage their total resources , nor allows a rapid response to fast changing circumstances . |
| 8 | Researchers from Hitachi Europe Ltd 's Cambridge Laboratory , working with Cambridge University 's Microelectronics Research Centre claim to have fabricated a memory cell that uses a single electron to store one bit , vastly reducing the power that would be required by huge-capacity memory chips — a device the size of a silver dollar could store 1T-bits while drawing just 0.1W : in current technology it would be the size of a tennis court and dissipate 10KW . |
| 9 | Its official name is atheroma , and its three main ingredients are platelets , the tiny blood cells that are the raw material for any blood clot ; fibrin , a stringy protein that forms a three-dimensional mesh to entrap the platelets ; and cholesterol , which binds the whole lot together and sticks it to the sides of blood vessels . |
| 10 | You may be happiest asking a professional to cut out your mount unless you are confident that you will do it properly , as it is a skill that takes a long time to perfect , and a badly cut mount is as off-putting as a badly made frame . |
| 11 | This is a contact lens that permits a split-brain patient to move his/her eyes freely when examining an object , but at the same time ensures that only one hemisphere of the patient 's brain receives the visual information . |
| 12 | This is a contact lens that permits a split-brain patient to move his/her eyes freely when examining an object , but at the same time ensures that only one hemisphere of the patient 's brain receives the visual information . |
| 13 | The Model builds on OS/2 2.0 and the System Object Model of the Workplace Shell , an object-oriented schema that provides a standard way to write class libraries and a general-purpose mechanism for communicating between objects . |
| 14 | Chicago-based advertising screens on shopping trolleys specialist VideOcart Inc has persuaded IBM Corp to let it restructure its $42m debt to IBM , to provide the company with relief from near term debt payments and enable it to attain its business goals : a $22m debt would replace the existing debt , giving VideOcart a one-time balance sheet gain of $20m ; terms of the new agreement include waiving all principal and interest payments until July 31 , and VideOcart retains its rights under a previous agreement with IBM that allows early repayment of the new $22m debt at any time for $17m in cash ; VideOcart also agreed to cancel a warrant granted last year to IBM to buy 540,000 VideOcart shares and grants a new warrant to buy 600,000 shares at $1.75 each ; from August 31 to December 31 , interest only payments will be due , but payments of $500,000 a month will be due beginning on January 31 1994 and will continue for 35 months , and a balloon payment will be due on December 31 1996 , although IBM has the option to convert the balance of the debt into VideOcart common shares at $8 a share on that date . |
| 15 | She has been well taken care of by one of our professional crews , and offers a great chance to achieve one of these popular yachts . |
| 16 | Now she too buckles on the hookboots and turns a graceful cartwheel to bring their hooks , with a faint clang , against a couple of the walking rings in the ceiling . |
| 17 | Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’ |
| 18 | For while , in the oral world of non-literacy , ignorance of letters , the national language or national institutions is no handicap , except to those whose business ( which is rarely that of agriculture ) makes such knowledge necessary , in a literate society the illiterate is by definition inferior , and has a strong incentive to remove that inferiority , at least from his or her children . |
| 19 | Usually one member of the team is designated as ‘ key worker ’ and has a special responsibility to coordinate the efforts of the whole team for one person , and a social worker from the local authority is usually attached to the team . |
| 20 | The LTA must be funded and has a large role to play . |
| 21 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ Spielberg is a games fanatic himself and has a hands-on involvement to ensure the final result is as faithful as possible to his original idea . |
| 23 | Modern Parasitology is an uneven book and needs a standard text to go with it according to the editor , T. E. G. Cox . |
| 24 | One thing I did not like about the aircraft was the flap lever which is mounted on the left side of the aircraft and needs a hefty pull to operate . |
| 25 | At least one of the Hurricanes is virtually complete and looks a viable project to rebuild to flying condition . |
| 26 | The first used the algebraic formalism developed by Hendrickson and coworkers ; the other treats multiwavelength data as arising from a conventional multiple isomorphous replacement experiment , with the inclusion of anomalous scattering , and uses a maximum-likelihood algorithm to refine heavy-atom parameters . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 28 | That the aircraft is almost time-expired and costs a small fortune to operate is almost a secondary consideration , but a damning one nonetheless . |
| 29 | Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook . |
| 30 | Althusser therefore concludes that Marx 's concept of contradiction is inseparable from that of a social whole , and borrows a Freudian term to describe the relations between various states of affairs . |