Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A difficulty may occur in the interpretation of metabolite concentrations and pain response . |
| 2 | Quantum mechanics puts me in the position of a canny bookmaker who can calculate the odds that a horse may win in the course of the season but not in the position of Our Newmarket Correspondent who claims to be able to forecast the outcome of a particular race . |
| 3 | The fundamental underlying principle of homoeopathy is that what a remedy can cause in the way of symptoms and signs it can also cure — that is , the principle of treatment by similars . |
| 4 | Treatment of like by like ( the similimum principle , or the law of similars ) : that what a remedy can cause in the way of symptoms and signs , it can also cure . |
| 5 | First , it may be recalled that in Chapter 2 , I concluded discussion of habitation by allowing the possibility that simple exposure to a stimulus might result in the formation of an increasingly detailed and well-specified representation of it . |
| 6 | Although a plateau will develop in the overall incidence of AIDS , there are strikingly different predictions for each exposure category . |
| 7 | Anorexia , where self-image and reality can be so at odds that a girl can look in the mirror and see someone hugely fat when in fact she is skeletal , is growing amongst teenage girls , and beginning to affect more Black and Asian girls living in Britain . |
| 8 | Essentially a director must believe in the person he is guiding . |
| 9 | Council officers believe part of the explanation for such a difference could lie in the relative affluence of North Yorkshire in comparison to other parts of the North-East . |
| 10 | Indeed , you have all the excuse , dear Mr. Belville , that a gentleman can have in the object of your preset passion . |
| 11 | The more supple a line the more natural a bait will behave in the water . |
| 12 | I have explained how easy rabbits are to deal with in a dead-end , but a blockage can occur in the middle of a burrow when a number of rabbits have accumulated one behind the other . |
| 13 | It is hoped that a bond will develop in the future with the ‘ Safer Edinburgh ’ initiative as they are targeting the age group in relation to crime prevention . |
| 14 | They were waiting to pounce , I know it ; that 's how they live ; they hang about in the dark , watching ( such a creature will see in the dark , never fear ) and listening and feeling for the minuscule rise in temperature and small vibrations which signal a passing vascular system , then they hop on board and they … suck . |
| 15 | Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point . |
| 16 | Herr Alpeter , addressing a meeting in England , was asked what happened to dogs who did not fulfil the required standard for breeding in Germany ( a dog can win in the show ring and still be useless for breeding ) . |
| 17 | Even the largest vehicles in a flight will fit in the USAF 's standard transport aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules , C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy . |
| 18 | Another discourse analyst , providing a second opinion , might report that it is about something else entirely , and a debate would ensue in the discourse analysis literature . |
| 19 | A log might shift in the grate and the fire breathe out a puff of blue smoke . |
| 20 | The pragmatism of field staff places much greater value on what a man can do in the field : his practical knowledge , his capacity to make decisions on the spot , his ability to talk to people . |
| 21 | .. made its way below , a hole would burst in the ship ; not that they feared the ship taking fire , but they thought the light was the work of evil spirits ... ’ |
| 22 | What toys the daily reading of such a book may work in the will of a young gentleman , or a young maid … wise men can judge and honest men do pity . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot will go in the forces like us and there 'll be jobs in ordnance factories and other places . |
| 24 | However , it is a big jump from saying what a system can do in the absence of the visual cortex to describing its functions in the normal , intact brain . |
| 25 | Estimating comparative levels of per capita GNP between various nations is probably best done by assessing relative levels of purchasing power — what a currency will buy in the country in which it is issued , using comparisons between particular products . |
| 26 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 27 | A major technical worry about the PWR design was what would happen if a leak should occur in the high-pressure water-cooling circuit which constantly withdraws heat from the reactor core . |
| 28 | It is recommended that a solicitor should assist in the completion of the appropriate application form , for which green form assistance is available . |
| 29 | A fire can start in the home and it can start very very easily . |
| 30 | On a smaller scale , the electrical forces that cause the electrons to orbit round the nucleus in an atom would behave in the same way as gravitational forces . |