Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 2 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 3 | Minor concentrations of copper , molybdenum , tin , tungsten and uranium are associated with a number of mineralised Caledonian calc-alkaline porphyritic granites in Scotland , Northern England and Wales . |
| 4 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 5 | The reason many copies of any one fragment of text are found on a disc is that if , like all my chapters , the text has been edited and re-edited many dozens of times , each edit will result in a new saving to the disc of ( almost ) the same text . |
| 6 | Only one main branch is permitted , along which shoots above branch level are spaced at a minimum of 15 centimetre intervals . |
| 7 | JOE HARRIOTT Memories of the great altoist are evoked by a quintet featuring three members of his band : trumpeter Shake Keane , bassist Coleridge Goode , and drummer Bobby Orr . |
| 8 | Marketing any new product is fraught with dangers — the vast majority are defeated by a lack of consumer awareness . |
| 9 | The attempt to demonstrate how a close linguistic analysis can explain a text 's meaning and effect only partially succeeds in this case , since the thoroughness and precision of the description are undermined by a failure to discriminate between features of different significance within the poem , and by a general neglect of the socio-cultural context in which the text is embedded . |
| 10 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 11 | AMERICAN ring doughnuts from The Delicious Donut Co are made from a flour which is said to give them a light , fluffy , and non-greasy consistency . |
| 12 | Thus , where parts of a building are separated by a party floor , the draftsman should define the boundaries between each part and allocate responsibility for repairs . |
| 13 | Here not just micro-tools but miniaturised medicos in a submarine are injected into a moribund boffin 's carotid artery . |
| 14 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 15 | Easterbrook 's hypothesis assumes that increases in arousal are associated with a narrowing of the range of cues utilized by an organism in performing a task . |
| 16 | This proposes that with increasing arousal task performance is improved until an optimal level is achieved and that thereafter further increases in arousal are associated with a decrement in performance . |
| 17 | The two subunits of the repressor dimer are numbered 1–104 and 1'-104' , whereas residues from the symmetry-related dimer are marked with a star . |
| 18 | An internal system of control of a business should be designed to ensure that the policies of the management are being followed , that financial records are accurate , that the assets of the company have been safeguarded and that the opportunities for fraud are kept to a minimum . |
| 19 | In general , foreign service premia are based on a percentage of salary , usually around 10 to 15 per cent , and are paid throughout the period of the assignment . |
| 20 | As we have indicated in the text the exercises at the end of each chapter are divided into a number of categories . |
| 21 | The limitations of a captain 's powers of patronage are illustrated by a letter written to William Graham of Airth , a Stirlingshire freeholder , in 1785 : |
| 22 | The Church , Wall Street , and Industry are joined by a network of telephone lines , forming a remorsely inhuman environment . |
| 23 | Other branches of modern scholarship are represented by a gift from Professor Denys Hay of correspondence concerning , and drafts of an article on ‘ British Historians and the Beginnings of the Civil History of World War II ’ , 1971–76 ; and by papers of Sir Robert Grieve on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other planning matters , C.1945–64 ( on deposit and not yet available for consultation ) . |
| 24 | When the patient lies on his back on the plinth , his head , shoulders and trunk are supported on a wedge cushion . |
| 25 | All parts except the sponge are guaranteed for a year , and Interpet undertake to keep spare parts available for at least five years after the last filter is produced . |
| 26 | The vector data in the upper figure are stored as a string of ( x , y ) coordinates . |
| 27 | And at TransArt Exhibitions ( in the Kreishaus complex ) the pre-war European roots of American Abstract Expressionism are explored in a retrospective of German-born painter Hans Hofmann , with a new catalogue published by the co-curators , Andrew Kalman of the Crane Gallery in London , and Jeane Freifrau von Oppenheim of TransArt . |
| 28 | The recommendation before , therefore is that a second phase of the county experiment be implemented for a period of three months to six months , whichever is felt necessary , to allow the effects of |
| 29 | If such an arrangement has the result that the group , taken as a whole , can not avoid payments , the FRED would require that in the consolidated accounts the instrument be reported as a liability . |
| 30 | Can a row about the endless Saturday afternoons he now spends bent over the bonnet of his old car be used as a vehicle for their underlying struggle ? |