Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with other invertebrates the combination of brachiopod types in an assemblage gives a quick clue to the age . |
| 2 | A successful pitch played from an upslope demands a careful assessment of the shot before you even stand to the ball . |
| 3 | Therefore , if a clause giving a reason for such an action has a pronominal subject , we expect it to refer back to the questioner . |
| 4 | Failure to record an electroretinogram suggests a global insult to the retina , compatible with drug toxicity . |
| 5 | If an applicant has a good explanation for his claim it may , far from harming him , enhance his credibility . |
| 6 | Unless an applicant has a satisfactory explanation , his credibility will be reduced if untrue claims are made on his behalf by his agent or representative . |
| 7 | If an agent does a good job with the first one , and builds a successful relationship with the manager , there is no reason why that agent ca n't deal with all of a manager 's acts . |
| 8 | Just because an industry desires a convenient method of cartel formation , that does not mean it will necessarily get it . |
| 9 | An initiator transforms a normal cell into the seed of a growing cancer ; it is a necessary but not sufficient factor for malignant change . |
| 10 | When an ant shares a common border with an elephant , it makes a lot of sense for the insect to stay well clear of the animal 's footsteps . |
| 11 | Similarly , in some modern construction contracts disputes are referred to " adjudication " under which a named individual designated to act as an expert makes a preliminary finding which is then subject to review by arbitration . |
| 12 | If we use the criterion invoked for the characteristic activity sense of the progressive , namely that the admissibility of an adverb signals a different sense , then we would have to increase the subcategories of meaning associated with this particular aspectual form of the verb . |
| 13 | This is a fiction composed by university graduates — the first such school of fiction in English — and its primary emphasis , only remotely Cervantic , is on the dangers of false intellectualism and simplistic theories , and above all the arrogant notion that membership of an intelligentsia constitutes a credible claim to superior wisdom or superior virtue . |
| 14 | They pick on an accountant because an accountant needs a good name and has been partly in control of the funds anyway . |
| 15 | Sometimes an intervention provides a useful impetus to try to articulate what they are doing , and in the process , see things more clearly for themselves . |
| 16 | And a discrete gift it is too ; either an organism has a reverberant feedback system , or it does n't . |
| 17 | However , such an event produces a corresponding decline in competition performance for males . |
| 18 | Although born out of a concern for the economic decline of Britain , such an emphasis provides a sad irony in the 1980s with massive youth unemployment . |
| 19 | The point is that the idea of criteria is itself in need of elucidation , and an attempt to provide such an elucidation presupposes a basic understanding of the concept whose explanation is being sought . |
| 20 | However , the owners may win because they are more prepared to fight it out than the intruder ; when an owner beats a non-territorial intruder , he may win simply because he is stronger . |
| 21 | Such an arrangement requires a high degree of trust and confidence between the parties involved , a situation , perhaps , reached after several years of trading . |
| 22 | The change from being a child to an adult involves a great deal more than physical and biological change . |
| 23 | One point , though , that is clearly understood is that legal measures alone are not sufficiently effective and must be supplemented by infrastructural measures , which have the advantage that the spatial layout of an area has a direct influence on the behaviour of road users . |
| 24 | In some computers underflow in an operation forces a true zero result with no error indication . |
| 25 | An operation adds a single property to one of the two sets . |
| 26 | Answer guide : An asset gives a future benefit whereas with an expense the benefit is used up . |
| 27 | Answer guide : The major point to drive home here is that an asset gives a future benefit . |
| 28 | Such an approach represents a deliberate self-limiting on the part of God in order to speak in understandable terms and with perceived relevance on the part of the hearer . |
| 29 | Such an approach treads a thin line between the traditional pluralist and Marxist divide in media studies . |
| 30 | When an application receives a major change in code , often to correct previous errors , users should not be expected to re-buy the product to pay for the inefficiency of the authors . |