Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] device " in BNC.
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| 1 | N.B. This may seem a very simple construction in English , but may represent a trouble spot where a different device is used in the target language to mark the sequence of events . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 3 | The Z88 's operating system allows a composite file name in the following format : The devicename is the name of a memory bank or a physical device . |
| 4 | We recognize a sign as a set of letters on a page , or an intelligible series of sounds , or an iconic device , and in the same perception we grasp what it stands for : signifier and signified together make up the sign . |
| 5 | He said that the hi-tech device and other equipment found , such as nets , snares and digging gear , proved the men were after badgers . |
| 6 | One horseman asserted that the best device to make the coat shine was to wet the chaff occasionally with a little urine . |
| 7 | Assuming that the measuring device itself is reliable , if a single measurement corresponds to a variation in the measurement of the reference card then this fact is flagged on the output . |
| 8 | That the floral device " above " the lion is more lightly shaded than that " below " might seem insignificant , but this is also associated with notable contrasts in the quality of the guilloche ( both simple and chained ) by which they are enclosed . |
| 9 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 10 | If the example presented for recognition is exactly the same as a training instance , then all this recogniser 's RAM chips will output 1 , so the summing device will output the number K. |
| 11 | For an example which approximates training instances in most respects , most RAM chips will output 1 , so the summing device will output a number close to K. |
| 12 | The high probability of cross-fertilisation , although a natural device that ensures vigour and diversity , means seedlings may not resemble their parents , a particular risk with fruit pips and stones . |
| 13 | Cable which has a large reserve of strength is mostly used so that a weak-link device of some kind safeguards the structure on a fast launch in gusty conditions . |
| 14 | Occasionally it can happen that a peripheral device in your computer may fail and bring the whole installation to a halt , even if you do not use that particular facility . |
| 15 | Following the two multimeter add-ons described in the last two instalments of Circuit Surgery , several readers have suggested that a simple device for directly measuring capacitance would be extremely useful . |
| 16 | The small beam size and poor optics of the microprobe were restrictive , however , and it was quickly realized that a simple device specifically designed for CL petrography was required . |
| 17 | . Whether this manoeuvre is more than a technical device is dubious . |
| 18 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 19 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
| 20 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 21 | In other words , it is effectively a ‘ drive ’ rather than a stand-alone device , enabling data from Data Discman CD-ROMs to be accessed from a NEC 9800 . |
| 22 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
| 23 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 24 | The programme alleged that an electronic device bought by Mr Ryan was found in bomb-making circuitry in an IRA arms cache discovered in Salcey Forest , on the Northamptonshire-Buckinghamshire border , in 1984 . |
| 25 | It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 26 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 27 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 28 | A p-channel transistor , relying on hole mobility , is usually slower than an n-channel device . |
| 29 | If the physical device is the same , you could use RENAME . |
| 30 | Because of the advances in science and technology of lithotripter techniques , it was presented as a simpler alternative to surgery , and the piezoceramic device proved very effective . |