Example sentences of "[subord] [noun sg] [noun] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a knowledge-driven model , by which basic research leads to applied research , to development , and to applications ; a problem-solving model , where problem research leads via a decision-making process to a goal ( which is the solution of the problem ) . |
| 2 | However , although addition errors occurred with a generally low frequency , they were considerably more frequent for closed than for open class items . |
| 3 | For example , if household size falls during a period under examination , the study might conclude that living standards had also fallen . |
| 4 | Of course , vegetation and the nature of the soil can make a difference , For example , if acid rain falls on a spruce forest , the rain can become even more acid . |
| 5 | The communiqué stressed the urgency of securing international commitments " to control the adverse effects of climate change " ( an issue of particular concern to those low-lying islands such as Tuvalu , Kiribati and some of the Marshall Islands which could become submerged if ocean levels rose as a result of the " greenhouse effect " ) . |
| 6 | If care proceedings arise from a s37 investigation ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) it should be remembered that the court may have already made a first interim order when making the direction . |
| 7 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 8 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 9 | compatibility with existing phonographs did not matter , because dictation cylinders rotated at a different speed anyway . |
| 10 | Detachment structures initiate at moderate dips in brittle upper crust and flatten at mid-crustal levels ( 10–15km depth ) , because stress axes rotate as a result of ductile ( perhaps fluid-like ) flow of a weak middle crust ( beneath the brittle to ductile transition zone ) . |
| 11 | But in fact , the egg cells are quite the most likely place for the cycle to occur — because egg cells go through a phase of very high and relatively indiscriminate transcriptional activity when numerous RNA copies are made of a great deal of DNA including some of the Alu sequences . |
| 12 | This is possible because word images occur within a meaningful context , and we are able to exploit the syntactic and semantic constraints of the textual material [ Rayner , 1983 ] . |
| 13 | As a woodwork teacher for many years I consider this design to be dangerous because power drills run at a much higher speed than a brace and consequently the feed is too fast for accurate control . |
| 14 | Calves sold well in a steady trade , with continental bulls peaking at £248 , while heifer calves sold to a top of £200 . |
| 15 | The huge " club fender " of early Edwardian times should have held on to its proper suggestions of Christmas , when a group of laughing guests sat there , full glasses in their hands , while child actors performed in a glittering pantomime , entrances and exits from behind the Christmas tree . |
| 16 | Since Gift Aids applies to a single gifts it can be a very useful means of making a charitable gift towards the end of the tax year when your taxable income for the year can be estimated with some degree of precision . |
| 17 | For the moment though — in between looking after 15-month-old son Joss while wife Martha works as a teacher — he 's simply enjoying a fabulous season . |
| 18 | The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double . |
| 19 | On all the evidence it is highly improbable that overvaluation was the dominant constraint ; particularly since import penetration occurred in a ratchet-like fashion . |
| 20 | In addition the questions of whether computer technology leads to a division between technician and professional level engineers , and a greater integration of design with other organisational activities , is explored . |
| 21 | It is impossible to gauge whether Zealot activity originated from a single headquarters , or whether it consisted of a multitude of groups operating independently . |
| 22 | After graduation psychologists work in a variety of areas . |
| 23 | THE PURPOSE OF the study was to see whether gender differences existed in a range of formal and informal exchanges between teachers and pupils according to gender . |
| 24 | From the diagrams we can readily trace the full dynamic path of the economy , and examine whether equilibrium paths converge to a steady state . |
| 25 | As Punk Rock codified from a post-modern art movement — very similar , in late 1976 , to a United Kingdom version of Andy Warhol 's Factory — into a ‘ public ’ movement with a crudely ‘ tough ’ style , it nevertheless delivered a disturbingly accurate political polemic . |
| 26 | As shopping centres prepared for a busy Saturday , anti-terrorist chief Commander David Tucker warned the IRA could strike in any major city . |
| 27 | His pledge was derided as ‘ a grievance procedure for Christians thrown to the lions ’ when opt-out heads met for a somewhat valedictory national conference last week . |
| 28 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 29 | PALESTINIAN gunmen shot and wounded an Israeli soldier in the occu pied West Bank yesterday , as army patrols searched for a kidnapped border guard . |
| 30 | Just when world abolition looked like a certainty . |