Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [is] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in the optimum method a computer is required to scan all elements available , i.e. unc in successive steps , while in the second variant only m , ( n — 1 ) , … , 1 need scanning . |
| 2 | A computer is needed to convert these images from numerical to viewable form , either as a picture on a TV monitor or as a conventional photograph . |
| 3 | Erm however erm a company er a car is needed to do this job so I I home in on that . |
| 4 | If a Shusui 's Doitsu scales are going to turn greyish black , rather than a sky blue , or if a Kumonryu is going to lose all its black and turn into a valueless Doitsu Shiromuji , it will have done so in adolescence . |
| 5 | In this sense they also help to pin-point gaps in experience or competence , when a child is considered to have some areas of developmental concern … |
| 6 | ‘ Do you really think a strike is going to do any good ? ’ |
| 7 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 8 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 9 | If a manager is told to increase some measure of productivity , the manager will tend to distort things in just that direction . |
| 10 | At levels that betray the actual position of atoms , the surface of a crystal is seen to have all the regularity of a machine-woven piece of herringbone tweed . |
| 11 | After calculating the angles for each , a protractor is required to draw these angles . |
| 12 | A COMPANY is threatening to axe half its workforce unless it is paid more than £20,000 claimed to be owed them by Liverpool City Council . |
| 13 | Where a partner is permitted to work less than full time , this should be set out clearly ; ( b ) the extent to which a partner must not just be available to do work for the firm but is put under some positive obligation to promote the interests of the practice . |
| 14 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 15 | These corporations are non-elected and , although an attempt is made to ensure some representation of different interests at board levels , their tasks are clearly defined in advance in terms of development and infrastructure . |
| 16 | To this end each transput device has an associated one-bit register , which is cleared as an operation starts and is set to one when it terminates ; an instruction is provided to read this register , and thus the programmer can establish when a transput operation is complete . |
| 17 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 18 | A lot will depend on your current theatre experience and whether you have done much acting , but finding the right kind of character to work in an audition is going to mean some careful thinking and planning . |