Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now a FastFormat icon which works like a ‘ paintbrush for text ’ and gives a quick way of applying a text attributes from selected text already in your document to any other area you then select . |
| 2 | A correspondent knows of one witness to the February 1992 sighting in Mrs Topliff 's house , and this person stated that it was merely a large domestic cat . |
| 3 | A difficulty arises on various occasions in connection with numbers in the Bible . |
| 4 | Stansfield 's own personal antipathy to medical involvement in the contagious diseases acts , together with his ignorance of scientific matter she knew as much of science as a cow does of conic sections , according to one contemporary — may have exacerbated Simon 's problems at the board . |
| 5 | A play runs for two weeks , but books stay up there on the shelf . |
| 6 | Then the distribution of the number r ab of clones which hybridise to both probes conditional on n ab clones hybridising to either probe is binomial B ( n ab , 1- d ab ) , since the clones are independent and the probability that a clone hybridises to both probes given that it hybridises to one is 1- d ab . |
| 7 | For the distinctions a conception draws between legal rights and other forms of rights and between legal arguments and other forms of argument , signal the character and limits of the justification it believes political decisions provide for state coercion . |
| 8 | When a horse suffers from chronic anxiety , its body is in a continual state of arousal for physical action with the result that the horse will over-react to any stimuli and it may be constantly jittery and nervous . |
| 9 | But before we get to this point Griffith has given us what a reviewer describes as Millet-like scenes of rural labour and urban scenes in which great wealth alternates with breadlines and poverty . |
| 10 | The record held by a Frenchmen stands at 44 knots that 's around 50 mph . |
| 11 | The spatial query language tools which a GIS uses for general interaction with spatial data and for the elucidation of spatial relationships have also been the subject of recent research ( Egenhofer 1989 ) . |
| 12 | Where a programme calls for aerobic work , weight training should not be considered an aerobic exercise . |
| 13 | Our concern , however , is not with the difficulties of aesthetics , but only with what a critic writes of aesthetic experience , and how useful such an account may be . |
| 14 | A tension exists between those strands in antiracism which are primarily anti fascist and those which work with a more extensive and complex sense of what racism is in contemporary Britain . |
| 15 | Suppose that a transformer has to 6 volt 250 milliamp secondary windings . |
| 16 | It might seem self-evident that the commission of a crime amounts to unlawful means , but this is not so , at least where the crime is created by statute . |
| 17 | To suggest that what they were doing before was of low priority is a misleading simplification — could one for example conclude that if a professor moves from one department to another he does so because the former is of low quality ? |
| 18 | And entering upon a marriage calls for human decision . |
| 19 | The important point to stress is that humans appear to possess an innate capacity for finding common cause in a great number of cultural activities , a capacity Carrithers in this volume calls ‘ sociality ’ . |
| 20 | When a child arrives in this country unaccompanied and seeking political asylum — in some cases , it is extremely obvious why they are seeking political asylum — it is very important that the child is treated properly , as any homeless or friendless child should be treated . |
| 21 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 22 | What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . ) |
| 23 | A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections . |
| 24 | I can see this in my own case , where losing a job or a home has in certain instances reopened old wounds . |
| 25 | Copyright in a work lasts for fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which its author or composer dies . |
| 26 | Combining the body-building power of mousse , the sculpting ability of gel and the fixing strength of spray , it 's all a girl needs for fabulous hair every time ! |
| 27 | A committee deals with each case . |
| 28 | Bream are strictly shoal fish , and the size of a shoal depends upon many things , but it can generally be taken that the bigger the bream the smaller the shoal . |
| 29 | The Judge said , " You may not be hanged for your crime , you must be sentenced to seven years to his Majesty 's colonies in Virginia , where your bond will be purchased , and you will work as a purchaser directs for seven years in Virginia . " |
| 30 | Here a failure calls for immediate action if you are to level out into normal flight and so prevent a stall . |