Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb mod] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signal averaging is a technique used to decrease random noise in the amplified ECG in order to enhance the detection of signals only a few microvolts in amplitude . |
| 2 | … is a technique used to identify potential customers and their needs . |
| 3 | And the move , if successful , would be part of a package used to attract new businesses to Darlington . |
| 4 | The pagan world was familiar with the widespread beliefs that sexual contact between man and woman hindered the soul 's rise to higher things , and even that one who has been favoured with the love of a god ought to forgo mortal love . |
| 5 | There is a sense in which a dog ought to have four legs — if it does not , it is imperfect , ill-formed , not fully functional . |
| 6 | A man ought to have more self-control . ’ |
| 7 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |