Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] an [noun] ['s] " in BNC.

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1 The model assumes that many genes and environmental influences contribute to an individual 's position on an underlying continuous scale of liability but that disease is present only in those who fall above a critical threshold value .
2 In the Gulbenkian Report the clear exposition of the idea that the arts mediate between an individual 's inner being and the external world , and that this gives an educational role to arts activities in the development of pupil personality , appears to have impressed not only arts educators but almost all those administrators , such as GRIST coordinators , who were responsible for programmes which included an arts element .
3 Both nationalized industries and local authorities publish a good deal of information on their various and diverse activities ( see chapters 8 and 10 ) In Type A nonprofit organizations the level of revenue raised is often regarded as indicative of the value that recipients place on an organization 's services .
4 But the relationship between the ‘ army of administrators at their desks ’ and the eventual supply of a public service to beneficiaries in society , is so complex that it is difficult to disentangle the contributions which different strands make to an individual 's utility function .
5 ‘ Why , I distinc'ly 'eard one of o' yer men swear after an umpire 's decision . ’
6 Biological factors operate throughout an individual 's life with differing degrees of importance at different stages .
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