Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes . |
| 2 | But in the total picture if you take what a , any , an average American state spends and you ask the question what proportion of that money comes from the federal government , the answer is wait for it , the answer is about twenty percent . |
| 3 | It is from the chaos of spontaneous analogizing that creativity breaks into the ordered by closed realm of analytic thinking . |
| 4 | This is because each hair consists of a sharp , hollow spine , the walls of which contain silica , making them glass-like and brittle . |
| 5 | Each crypt consists of a superficial , longitudinal segment and a sonvoluted deep segment , the second usually appearing in transverse or oblique view on cut sections . |
| 6 | A similar objection to utilitarianism urged by Williams , Alasdair MacIntyre and others is that utilitarianism goes with a manipulative approach to human life . |
| 7 | Each level borrows from a different mythology , starting in Graeco-Roman hell ( Hades to the classical scholars ) . |
| 8 | And , of course , each level climaxes with a big supervillain . |
| 9 | Neither constraint applies to the Tertiary College where adults and part-time students make up a sizable proportion of the student population . |
| 10 | Nucleic acids are strings of four kinds of ‘ nucleotides ’ : each nucleotide consists of a common piece ( which joins to other identical pieces to form the ‘ string ’ ) , and , sticking out sideways , one of four different ‘ bases ’ ( adenine , thymine , guanine , or cytosine ) . |
| 11 | The American and Australian national clearinghouses are dependent on librarians to feed them with information on a regular basis , and as each clearinghouse develops as a focal point for information exchange this is quite successful . |
| 12 | If so , it could be that the impact of that experience parallels in a sharpened and intensified form the impact on women of the experience of child-bearing — a potent , personal experience that , however sanitised , brings a woman face-to-face with these three realities . |
| 13 | And if Little Chef goes into a real decline will you promise to ring me ? ’ |
| 14 | Each piece deals with a single incident , a mood , or reminiscence . |
| 15 | Without some knowledge of research it 's very hard to keep your teaching fresh and lively and interesting and relevant , and the other factor is of course that research contributes to the long-term economic base of the country . |
| 16 | Something of that strange that strangeness and that irony lies behind the famous claim ‘ I will try to express myself in some mode of life for art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can , using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence , exile and cunning . |
| 17 | ( Beyond doubt that characterization lies behind the logico-linguistic criterion considered earlier . ) |
| 18 | However , spotlights need to be positioned so that light falls in the right place . |
| 19 | At first people thought that particles of light traveled infinitely fast , so gravity would not have been able to slow them down , but the discovery by Roemer that light travels at a finite speed meant that gravity might have an important effect . |
| 20 | According to their scheme each SMLA consists of an urban core together with a metropolitan ring comprising the local authority areas from which at least 15 per cent of the workers commute to the urban core , while beyond the SMLA is an outer commuting ring from which at least 1 per cent of workers travel daily to the core . |
| 21 | The main body of that guidance consists of a detailed description of each room listed in the schedule , and dealt with under the headings of functions , fittings , furniture and equipment , services , finishes , area/shape , and relationship to other rooms . |
| 22 | Little research exists on the difficult task of raising another person 's child in this situation or on the distinctive features and potential problems of step-parenting as opposed to adoption or fostering . |
| 23 | Each chapter begins with a brief introduction , and ends with a comprehensive list of references — typically in the hundreds . |
| 24 | Each chapter ends with a short addendum entitled ‘ Further Reading ’ , which comprises two sections . |
| 25 | a method of folding in which each fold opens in the opposite direction to its neighbour , giving a concertina or pleated effect . |
| 26 | In a vector GIS the set of M different output maps would be rasterized and a count made of the frequency that each cell appears in the final map . |
| 27 | Each entry goes into the Grand Draw , so the more monthly competitions you enter , the greater your chances of winning . |
| 28 | Each entry consists of a brief history of the building , followed by accounts of its conservation and that of individual works of art , such as the cleaning of Donatello 's ‘ St John the Baptist ’ in the Frari or the great stained glass window in SS . |
| 29 | Each sovereign speaks with a single voice , though not in harmony with other sovereigns . |
| 30 | This finding concurs with the personal study of Payne-James . |