Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that thought in mind we have produced a chart which reveals the extent to which business involving the recording of Irish bands and artists has gone abroad in recent years . |
| 2 | Explosives experts therefore use a fuse which ignites a firing cap , made of fulminate of mercury . |
| 3 | ‘ On top of that , we are still in the middle of a recession which brings the fear of unemployment and unwillingness to take on commitments like mortgages . |
| 4 | A function which converts a character string representing a number into numeric form . |
| 5 | A function which gets a byte from the data file whose file handle is its argument . |
| 6 | A function which allows a machine code routine to return a value directly . |
| 7 | A function which opens a file ( or device ) for reading and returns the file handle of the file . |
| 8 | A function which opens a file ( or device ) for writing and returns the file handle of the file . |
| 9 | A function which opens a file ( or device ) for update ( reading and writing ) and returns the file handle of the file . |
| 10 | A function which reads a byte of data from the file opened as " fnum " , from the position pointed to by PTR#fnum . |
| 11 | A function which applies the interpreter 's expression evaluation program to the characters held in the argument string . |
| 12 | A function which returns a string of length 1 containing the ASCII character specified by the least significant byte of the numeric argument . |
| 13 | A function which returns the position of a sub-string within a string , optionally starting the search at a specified place in the string . |
| 14 | The first example below defines a function which returns the average of 2 numbers . |
| 15 | A function which returns the value of the first free location after the end of the current program . |
| 16 | A function which returns the length of the argument string . |
| 17 | BSAC medical officer Dr Peter Wilmhurst , of St Thomas ' Hospital , London , says : ‘ Divers are entitled to treatment under the NHS Act in the same way as a skater who breaks a leg on the ice or a rider who breaks his back falling off a horse . |
| 18 | Perhaps with the taint of a half-smile they named the camps of Mordovia after the pretty , sun-dappled forests around Moscow where they took their family picnics and holidays . |
| 19 | It may be possible to distinguish the lawyer/client cases from a case which involves the provision of financial services . |
| 20 | 3.11 When there is some particular feature in a case which aggravates the degree of suffering it need not arise from the plaintiff 's concern about himself . |
| 21 | It is desirable that the committal order be served as a matter of urgency although in a case which merited a sentence of six months ' imprisonment — and the contrary was not argued on M. 's behalf — there is much less urgency than in the case of a short sentence of imprisonment . |
| 22 | I 've no brief for management and by and large I do n't find many managements very efficient , but I 'll say this , Imperial Typewriter management are soft and if we have got a case we have no difficulty in winning it , no difficulty … |
| 23 | walking keep you fit its a bit you had a hair cut last week if you 'd of left , if you had n't of had it done you could of taken this thing down |
| 24 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 25 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 26 | The advances would be at a level which enables the artist to live and concentrate on improving his or her writing skills . |
| 27 | To alleviate this the amount taken from the stock bottle is reduced to a level which creates no discomfort and the remedy is continued using that dosage routine until an increase in dose is appropriate §282 . |
| 28 | Production systems will have to be intensified in ways which do not deplete fertility ; areas which are now under-populated will have to be used more productively ; the organizations which serve small farmers , including relevant agricultural research institutes , will have to be strengthened ; and finally , agricultural prices will have to be maintained at a level which provides an incentive . |
| 29 | The jokes/anecdotes/stories can be short or long and , as an example , I will tell the tale of a branch who loaned a customer a sum of money so he could undergo plastic surgery . |
| 30 | One was that the microphones were stolen from the school during a burglary which made the recording process more difficult and less rewarding . |