Example sentences of "each [noun sg] [be] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before .
2 Generally at the head of each department is a chief officer with appropriate technical qualifications who advises councillors and implements policy in fields relating to his specialism .
3 Each boat is faster , and each change made to each boat is a progressive improvement .
4 Each bid is a separate offer and a contract is not made until the auctioneer accepts one of them .
5 By each terminal was a prominent notice displaying " OKAPI '86 is an experimental computer catalogue for subject searches …
6 Each work extends the ‘ augury ’ of Finnegans Wake : each work is a postmodernist paradigm , a prophecy of the self-reflexive foregrounding of language and fiction-making which has become a central , distinguishing characteristic of postmodernism .
7 Each column was a solid formation of men aimed like a battering ram at the Dutch line .
8 For fast-moving animals , such as flies , bees and dragonflies , however , the ability to take in many images each second is a great advantage .
9 Each machine is a large protein molecule , put together under the influence of a particular stretch of DNA .
10 At the base of each projection is a basal body of nine fibres , from there nine rootlet fibres pass into the deeper layers of cytoplasm .
11 Situated around the base of each wing is a variable number of articular sclerites which consist of the tegulae , the humeral plate and the axillaries ( Fig. 27 ) .
12 In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure .
13 The part of the city through which they were walking reminded Zen of Venice , but a Venice brutally fractured , as though each canal were a geological fault and the houses to either side had taken a plunge or been wrenched up all askew and left to tumble back on themselves , throwing out buttresses and retaining walls for support as best they could .
14 each record is a complete information about one item on the file .
15 Associated with each vacancy is a fixed wage w which is a random draw from the density , which is assumed to be constant over time and known to the searcher .
16 The action chosen by the long-lived agent in each period is a linear function of its type .
17 Although the existence of monopoly power may provoke a government investigation , each investigation is a cost-benefit analysis attempting to identify the costs and benefits on a case by case basis .
18 Inside each drum was a designated quantity of radioactive waste .
19 I often think that our sociological relationships are like an action in which each person is a small knot so that we can influence the common situation in four directions .
20 However , if each enterprise is a different company , each company being in itself a separate and distinct legal entity and thus taxed separately , the balancing of profit and loss between the enterprises so as to minimize overall tax liability can not be achieved .
21 To regard them as rival teams which are first constituted and then begin to play against each other is a serious mistake .
22 Faith in each other is a lifelong process , beginning with trust in God .
23 Making clothes for each other is a traditional pleasure for Pakistani women .
24 And the idea of making everyone look like each other is a communist idea , yes ?
25 In the Bell-Szekeres solution , it has been shown that the hypersurface on which the opposing waves mutually focus each other is a Cauchy horizon rather than a curvature singularity .
26 However , if you need to work particularly closely with specialist or local media it does make sense to get to know the organisations and their needs , and meetings with editors and journalists to see how you can best help each other are a good idea .
27 That the four lead artists got on so well with each other was a distinct advantage in coping with the pressurised working schedules they were expected to maintain over the next year .
28 The basic concept of a Streamline Student 's Book is that each page is a complete unit and in most cases the unit has one central teaching point .
29 When church statistics paint a picture of general decline , a movement which grows at the rate of two congregations each week is a striking feature .
30 The effective operation of an Individual programme plan ( IPP ) for each woman is a major casualty of the haphazard delivery of services .
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