Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the algorithm may opt for a particular child C on the basis of the gradient of f at N , but the gradient is misleading and in fact f ( C ) is much less then f(N) . |
| 2 | Whenever the cost of such a path increases , the algorithm will backtrack to a better looking node . |
| 3 | The methods used for controlling debate are the power to apply the closure by a simple majority , though normally the majority must consist of a hundred members ; the power to send bills upstairs for their committee stage to a standing committee and the power , when bills are taken on the floor of the House or in committee , to impose a guillotine . |
| 4 | A police spokesman warned that the vandalism could result in a tragedy on the main line between Belfast and Dublin . |
| 5 | Since an average-sized woman would be eating 2,000–2,300 calories a day to maintain her normal weight , the reduction should result in a loss of about 2lb a week . |
| 6 | The chute will be replaced but the swings must wait for a future allocation of money . |
| 7 | The amount of the provision would depend on a number of factors such as : the length of the expected period during which there will be no sub-lessee ; the amount of rental any sub-lessee could be expected to pay in the prevailing market conditions ; the amount that the company would have to pay to dispose of the lease ; and the intentions of management regarding the vacant space . |
| 8 | This ensured that aircraft out on the routes at outstations lacking facilities for making the checks could fly to a place where it could be done . |
| 9 | Critics charged that the change would lead to a greater inequalities in the provision of welfare , but the shift of power back to the states was generally welcomes . |
| 10 | For certain orbits , the length of the orbit would correspond to a whole number ( as opposed to a fractional number ) of wavelengths of the electron . |
| 11 | The Sheffield United winger , Alan Roberts , is on the verge of moving to Fourth Division Lincoln City if the clubs can agree on a fee . |
| 12 | Without understanding the intricacies of these book-entries we can see the philosophy of the system : namely , that the accounts should present in a systematic and continuous way the comparison of budgeted amounts and actual spending . |
| 13 | The Galleries will act as a one million sq ft magnet to six million shoppers , not just from Birmingham , but from the entire West Midlands conurbation and beyond . |
| 14 | The award will consist of a lump sum to a maximum value of £5000 , designed to cover part or all of an economy class air or rail ticket and a subsistence allowance . |
| 15 | The new Saab CD 2.3 Turbo delivers everything a high-flying chairman of the board could expect from a luxury limousine . |
| 16 | The winner will stay in a top London hotel and receive top-to-tail grooming at Peter 's Posh Pets while his or her owner enjoys the human equivalent at Harrods . |
| 17 | The winner will train at a top agency , have a camera test and then be offered the chance to sign up as a professional model . |
| 18 | But the sentence can function as a satisfactory communication without either the hearer perceiving , or the speaker intending to convey , anything concerning the sex of the person referred to . |
| 19 | Perhaps he was too young to assume the purple , in which case the Senate would either appoint a Regent ( who usually proclaimed himself emperor and murdered his young rival ) or declare that , owing to an emergency ( the impending bankruptcy of the empire , for example , or yet another insurrection in Dacia ) , the throne would pass to a full-grown man . |
| 20 | Always ready to look on the bright side she expected that the remission would last for a long time , and there was a conspiracy between Maureen and her mother to conceal Julia 's suffering from her . |
| 21 | Foreign Minister Domingo Cavallo on Sept. 28 denied reports that Kuwait 's exiled leaders had contributed the US$22,000,000 needed to finance the Argentine deployment , stating that the money would come from a multinational fund managed by the UN . |
| 22 | But the department spokesman said the money should come from a community care grant to local authorities for the mentally ill . |
| 23 | The money will pay for a three year scheme to improve 334 houses and five bungalows on the 1960s built estate . |
| 24 | Mr Clinton will try to fudge the tax issue , arguing that most of the money will come from a wage-based premium , which will go straight to local health alliances rather than to the Treasury , and that much of the rest will come from ‘ sin taxes ’ — on alcohol and tobacco — which appeal to America 's Puritan conscience . |
| 25 | If you find one of those canvas military holdalls officers carry these days , the money could go in a false bottom of some sort . ’ |
| 26 | In The Money could run into a place . |
| 27 | ‘ We very much regret these redundancies but overall the reorganisation will result in a more targeted and focused research effort . |
| 28 | They had , however , the ‘ duty of making such inquiry as the circumstances of the case ought to indicate to a sensible man is , without difficulty , presently practicable ’ . |
| 29 | Legal experts predicted that the case could serve as a precedent in land claim cases where tribes alleged that treaties had been signed on their behalf by representatives of other language groups . |
| 30 | Lord Penrose said that the case should proceed to a full hearing of evidence on those points . |