Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We therefore attempt to hold the current program " context " in the fast accumulators as the program is executed ; since it may be difficult for a programmer or compiler to establish such a current context at each point , it has been proposed that the accumulator array be replaced by an associative store , and this is discussed in 5.5 . |
| 2 | In order to appreciate the factors which motivate a writer or speaker to make this kind of selection , one needs to think of the clause as a message rather than as a string of grammatical and lexical elements . |
| 3 | Malcolm was presented with a watch and certificate to recognise this achievement by Hugh Gibson , managing director of Rolls Wood Group . |
| 4 | This involves a recognition that societies have some kind of pattern and that certain features of a society appear to ‘ hang together ’ . |
| 5 | Marschalek ( 1983 ) has noted that children generally attend to only a portion of the information contained within a stimulus whereas adults include more dimensions as well as a consideration of structural aspects . |
| 6 | No , cos Julie wanted a boy and Andy wanted another girl ! |
| 7 | Company magazine backs a campaign and petition to keep all brands of the Pill available free on prescription in its latest issue . |
| 8 | The need for a husband and wife to have some part of the evening alone should be discussed openly and accepted as being important , for this is another ‘ danger ’ period when tensions can build up between in-laws . |
| 9 | That is a reminder that fairness has many faces . |
| 10 | While the whole theological context of that chapter was important , we may note here especially the stress on the priesthood of all the faithful — a theme that Luther made much of , but which Catholic tradition had downgraded ever since . |
| 11 | A person or animal inherits half its genes from each parent . |
| 12 | In 1713 , at the election for the City of London ( where the franchise was vested in the liverymen ) , " a great Mob of Weavers and such people " ( who were presumably not enfranchised ) turned up at the Guildhall in support of the Whigs , and " made a disturbance and caus 'd much fighting and quarrelling " , although the four Tory candidates eventually carried the day , " notwithstanding the Rabble " . |
| 13 | She had , only the other day , seen a policeman and -woman exerting more force than had seemed strictly necessary on a man in the street : at the time she had assumed that he had offered fierce resistance until she had turned the corner , at which moment he had been subdued . |
| 14 | Lastly , on 6 June 1985 the first five plaintiffs entered into a guarantee and debenture charging all their assets to secure moneys owed by them , or by others of the first five plaintiffs , to the first defendant . |
| 15 | Okay , so on Friday we were looking at erm a model of agricultural supply and response that incorporated erm , a notion that farmers take some time er to react to changes in er in prices erm due to psychological acquiring fixed factors and so on |
| 16 | The higher-level activity itself can , of course , become automatised , and whereas in the case of skills such as riding a bicycle or tying shoelaces this is advantageous , when it happens to writing or reading the consequences are unfortunate . |
| 17 | Manager Ian Porterfield is to buy a replacement after Beasant had another nightmare match in the 3–2 home defeat by Norwich . |
| 18 | Labour , post-Kinnock , is saddled with a fundamentally undemocratic trade union link-up ; an autocratic structure , which , in the absence of the autocrat , sees power pass to the autocrat 's ( unelected ) nominees ; and a policy and decision-making process that is as devoid of inspiration and new ideas as it is of input from the wider constituency of party members and supporters . |
| 19 | What is more plausibly infallible is a belief that things look that way now to me . |
| 20 | In a small hotel ( Fig. 1.1 ) the organisation is comparatively simple , with a manager or manageress supervising all the areas of operation . |
| 21 | You can use a submersible pump , which you 're using for a fountain or cascade to empty most of the water , but only do this to the level of the pump intake — then it 's a matter of bailing out with a bucket . |
| 22 | One crucial factor was whether the king in appointing a count or missus had any real choice : for instance , as between kinsmen , or between an outsider and a local man . |
| 23 | Tightening the mainsail , he continued pleasantly , ‘ Just behind the old port there 's a restaurant that serves swordfish steaks with a herb and lemon dressing that 's out of this world . |
| 24 | A pipe or cigarette burns all the time , and just wastes smoke when the user is not drawing on it . |
| 25 | From this work , a substantial research report was published in September 1992 on how income and environment affect health , on a scale and depth approaching that of the Black report in Britain . |
| 26 | Except at the cinema , I never saw a man and woman kiss each other , until I was grown up . ) |
| 27 | You should recognise a level-crossing , a tunnel , and a road or railway crossing another road or railway , and be able to identify a single , double-or-more track or disused railway . |
| 28 | Sometimes a novel or poem gains some of its meaning by quoting or referring to another text . |
| 29 | And this , according to Brian Baxter , is all the work of Terence Davies , a ‘ potentially great artist ’ who has ‘ evoked memories and then shaped them , as a painter or poet distills such images , into a coherent whole ( Films and Filming , October 1988 ) . |
| 30 | Only when they came close was it possible to make out the dark shadow of a hand and arm carving each one , the sketchy outline of a black body behind , and above , a ghoulish half-lit face with gaping shadowy craters for mouth and eyes . |