Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This f is used only to detect when the algorithm has reached a summit or plateau .
2 Must be pleased , as was Ken Vasey we spoke to earlier , that you did n't concede a goal for the second game in succession , and the defence does look a lot tighter does n't it ?
3 The Park proposes to offer a Management Agreement in order to safeguard the landscape .
4 The guitar 's got a personality and that 's the whole reason why people still play them .
5 The Scotsman has obtained a copy of the mandate given to Mr Ford by the charity 's business administration secretary , Lt-Col Ivor Rich .
6 To extract the bike means shifting a sack of dried dog food , a pile of gardening tools and a dozen old floorboards saved from the extension , ‘ just in case ’ .
7 The retailer has acquired a reputation for low prices and efficient service .
8 Where the board decides to hold a hearing , notice must be given to the licence-holder and the complainer in accordance with subs .
9 Where the licensing board decides to hold a hearing as mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) above : ( a ) the clerk of the board shall serve on the holder of the licence , not less than 21 days before the hearing , a notice that the board proposes to hold a hearing , specifying the complaint and the grounds upon which suspension of the licence is sought ; ( b ) the clerk of the board shall give notice of the hearing to the complainer ; ( c ) any person or body mentioned in section 16(1) of this Act may , not less than 7 days before the hearing , lodge notice with the clerk of the board that he or it wishes to be heard in support of suspension of the licence specifying the grounds on which he or it seeks such suspension , an any such notice shall be intimated by such person to the holder of the licence ; ( d ) the board shall not order suspension of a licence without hearing the holder thereof unless after receiving due notice of the hearing the holder fails to appear .
10 The Board expects to publish a specification in draft shortly .
11 To assist the process of public consultation the Board has prepared a number of discussion papers tackling themes which will be covered in the strategy .
12 We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit .
13 The Board has achieved a measure of success although this has been boosted by the development of North Sea Oil .
14 The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence .
15 The board has recommended a dividend of 0.7p per share , broadly in line with last year .
16 In the first case the creditor has obtained a grant from the praetor entitling him to take possession of certain property of the debtor in order to secure his loan .
17 The technique seems to offer a form of logical immortality as computer languages used for the simulations become increasingly machine-independent .
18 The origin of the Swastika has become a source of speculation for western researchers throughout time .
19 The parliament has become a garrison .
20 Sometimes the programmer wishes to manipulate a group of contiguous words as a single unit .
21 It 's hoped the machines can be repaired , but the person responsible for the damage has wasted a lot of time and money and delayed an important project .
22 Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible .
23 If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged .
24 Here the company offering the contract agrees to offer a replacement car or plane for the period of time in which the vehicle is down for maintenance , repairs etc .
25 That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment .
26 The Führer has had a bunker constructed below the Chancellery .
27 If the buyer does have a number of options , all of which offer the same kind of benefits the seller 's product offers , then the seller may have to concede .
28 Adding the constraint involves adding a row with no negative pivot , so the down-problem is infeasible .
29 The framework aims to provide a tool for analysing and explaining many of the fundamental rules of company law .
30 While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 .
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