Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 2 | However , Sukenick has been equally consistent in rejecting the view that such a direction marks a narcissistic introversion of fiction , arguing instead that he has engaged more directly with his culture . |
| 3 | To emulate him , they proclaimed , ‘ a runner needs a unique constitution and a unique personality ’ . |
| 4 | A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself . |
| 5 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style . |
| 7 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 8 | The person using the system to work out the cost of a building brings a substantial degree of skill by deciding whether the standard prices are applicable , and if not , by building up new prices and entering them into the database . |
| 9 | A sodium azide-based gas generator inflates the bag with nitrogen in a fraction of a second when a sensor detects a sudden deceleration . |
| 10 | Such matters are to a great extent determined conventionally by syntax , and become noticeably expressive only when a writer makes a graphological choice which is to some degree marked or unconventional , such as a deliberate misspelling . |
| 11 | Perhaps the most telling sentence in the book is ‘ Remember , your own doctor or chemist may not always be able to tell you whether a drug contains a banned substance . ’ |
| 12 | If a computer spends a significant portion of its time in carrying out a particular sequence of steps , then performance could be improved by replacing these steps by a single instruction implemented as a microprogram . |
| 13 | The basic way a computer performs a geometric transformation relies on the Cartesian coordinate system , an invention of the French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes in the 17th century . |
| 14 | If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut . |
| 15 | Mermaids have been sighted there and a ghost haunts a derelict bothy near the loch . |
| 16 | For instance , the reason that to pull someone 's left leg and to kick the large bucket have no normal idiomatic interpretation is that leg and bucket carry no meaning in the idiom , so there is nothing for left and large to carry out their normal modifying functions on ( in general , a modifier needs a semantic constituent to modify ) . |
| 17 | When a honeybee finds a new source of food , it senses the direction from the hive to the food using the sun as a compass . |
| 18 | A retailer receives a monthly statement giving the following information : |
| 19 | On registration by the company a buyer receives a new certificate and the seller a balance certificate for any shares he retains . |
| 20 | The way a scientist views a particular aspect of the world will be guided by a paradigm in which he is working . |
| 21 | Remember , use of a reserve requires a new notice of the fighting order . |
| 22 | The camera section of a camcorder has a photographic lens which forms an image of the subject on a sensing device . |
| 23 | Where a user makes a specific request to exercise their statutory right for an eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician , either as an alternative to or in addition to the voluntary screening programme , then the request should be accommodated and during this interim period the user permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their choice . |
| 24 | An accurate drive is crucial because a hook means a certain bogey , or worse . |
| 25 | Each character in a font takes a precise amount of space on the page when it is printed . |
| 26 | Not wanting to say that it has an immaterial soul , they allow that a horse has a continued identity despite changes of matter . |
| 27 | What is the ‘ essence ’ or ‘ nature ’ of a horse , and why does it follow from this that a horse has a certain type of head or feet , or lives to the age it does ? |
| 28 | If a horse encounters a strange object and is lacking in confidence , it will extend his head and neck to allow investigation of the object . |
| 29 | If we take Cournot 's time-honoured example of the mineral water duopoly , with the exception that we suppose developing a spring involves a fixed cost F , after which all the water desired can be extracted at a constant marginal cost ( of c , possibly zero ) , then we have a natural monopoly in the sense that average cost is continually declining . |
| 30 | Unfortunately jumping to conclusions as a practice has a poor track record since , so frequently , they are proved to be inadequate or wrong . |