Example sentences of "[det] [vb -s] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This shows that after a freshening in the early 1970s , the salinity ( and temperature ) began to increase in the early 1980s , although not to the same level as in 1970 . |
| 2 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 3 | This means that as a student who is being supervised it is you who have to be proactive rather than reactive . |
| 4 | This means that in a situation where saving exceeds investment , so that aggregate demand is less than the total value of production , firms will reduce output and lay off workers . |
| 5 | This means that in a sequence of HLH basic tones within an utterance , the pitch of a H tone , following after a L tone , will be lower than that of the preceding H tone , e.g. If you are not aware of this , you may think the language has more tone levels than it actually has . |
| 6 | That implies that in a sense that there 's a question of choice about it . |