Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suction could have been provided overnight only when clinically indicated and an assessment tool used to give the patient a longer rest period between interventions . |
| 2 | An eating plan should give a weekly gain of about 1.5 kg . |
| 3 | It must be fused as an insulation failure would burnout the alternator . |
| 4 | An enemy unit may charge a Squig Hopper and fight it in hand-to-hand combat exactly as if it were a normal cavalry model . |
| 5 | Jalal Talabani , secretary-general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , believes that the creation of an opposition coalition should open the way to outside help . |
| 6 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 7 | For instance , an operating theatre would need a level of over 10,000 lux , a boxing ring 2,000 lux , kitchens 300 lux and bathroom 100 . |
| 8 | The term was originally used by Hader and Lindeman to refer to work done in industrial consultation committees where some members of the committee were trained to observe in detail what happened at meetings and were then questioned afterwards by research workers — rather like an intelligence officer might question the crew of an aircraft after a raid . |
| 9 | But how useful would such a right be anyway , if an intelligence agency can drive a coach and horses through it ? |
| 10 | To appreciate how an s-plane diagram can reveal the Fourier spectrum of a signal , first consider for simplicity the Laplace transform corresponding to an exponentially decaying signal . |
| 11 | There an Investigation Officer will consider the documentation and decide whether the solicitor about whom the complaint has been filed has a case to answer within the powers of the SCB . |
| 12 | Even an A-level student might want a little more in the way of interpretation . |
| 13 | Furthermore , an instruction set could provide an arbitrary collection of operations which seem likely to be convenient , or we can attempt to group the operations and provide some structure in the set of instructions provided ; the instruction set of the Pegasus ( Elliott , Owen , Devonald , and Maudsley 1956 ) is a good example of the latter . |
| 14 | No proper review of an education system should ignore the role of the teachers . |
| 15 | By the middle of the century , an engineering firm would have a large drawing office ( which by the end of the century might include women draughtsmen ) in which detailed plans indicating exactly where rivets must go , and more highly finished drawings for the client , were prepared . |
| 16 | An engineering drawing may contain a circle amongst the many thousand entities laid down in its generation . |
| 17 | However , someone other than the purchaser could be injured on account of the article 's negligent manufacture and an exclusion clause would provide no defence in an action brought by him against the manufacturer . |
| 18 | The significance of the TDA 1968 is that it applies , in auction situations , strict liability to a false trade description which can not be excluded by a disclaimer even though , as a matter of civil law , such an exclusion clause could satisfy the reasonableness test under UCTA 1977 ( see Derbyshire County Council v Vincent ( 1990 ) The Times , 19 June ) . |
| 19 | In other cases an emission standard may control the nature of the fuel burned : for example , in the case of sulphur dioxide emissions , an emission standard to limit the sulphur dioxide emitted per unit of fuel burned specifies the use of coal with a low sulphur content-say , 1 per cent by weight . |
| 20 | The question as to whether an unchaste priest might celebrate the mass became important . |
| 21 | Surely an insurance company would need a professional valuation ? |
| 22 | Too slow an attack time would cut the sharp percussive effect of a snare drum sound , for example , but might suit softer , synth pad sounds . |
| 23 | An Information memorandum should include a form of wording emphasising that it is not a prospectus , that the information it contains is confidential and that neither we nor the directors of the company concerned accept responsibility for it . |
| 24 | In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing . |
| 25 | An X-ray picture should reveal the extent of the defect associated with the hip joints . |
| 26 | Government policy was aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country and an advertising ban would go a good way to achieving this , he said . |
| 27 | Before World War II , an ammonia plant would demand a workforce of 1000 or more . |
| 28 | As a result , an alumina implant can shield the surrounding bone from the stresses generated by normal activity , and the bone loses the stimulation which is necessary for it to remain healthy . |
| 29 | The mass of estuaries and inlets that make up the coastline mean an oil spill would cover a lot bigger area . |
| 30 | A typical example of this type of agreement is when an airport hotel will hold a set number of rooms for the airline pilots and stewards/stewardesses who have stop-overs between flights . |