Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1987 , BRAC tested its newly formulated Rice-Salt Oral Rehydration Therapy ( RSORT ) in a field trial covering a population of around 63,000 people . |
| 2 | In this case , a computer programmer developed a computer program which was similar to one he had written for his previous employer . |
| 3 | There would be nothing , in principle , to prevent an ex-employee computer programmer writing a similar program by the exercise of his own mental effort provided he did not simply plagiarize his previous employer 's program . |
| 4 | MB 's building products division has a large overlap with Caradon 's operations . |
| 5 | In 1971 , the Agricultural Research Council ( ARC ) and the agriculture ministry launched a research programme to find a way of turning the problem into a resource . |
| 6 | Among other things , they found that the daily volume of trading in the S&P500 futures contract had a significantly positive effect on the volatility of the corresponding future , as predicted . |
| 7 | Next , the issue of whether the return on a futures contract includes a risk premium is examined . |
| 8 | This indivisibility problem will tend to be smaller if each futures contract has a small nominal value , and the total value of the arbitrage transaction is very large . |
| 9 | The base component produces a deep structure tree . |
| 10 | The S/NVQ framework provides a challenging new route whereby those working in the industry can gain a qualification which recognises competence in the workplace . |
| 11 | NCR Corp filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Microbilt Corp , a subsidiary of First Financial Management Corp , alleging that Microbilt willfully infringed NCR 's patent on a handwriting capture device used at retail checkouts for customer signature verification . |
| 12 | NCR Corp plans a $12.1m remodelling of its Dayton , Ohio headquarters complex : $9.1m will go to turn its former financial terminals plant into office and support services space , $1.4m to tart up US Marketing Group headquarters , $1.6m to demolish a building . |
| 13 | In 1984 Clare Bradley of Sheffield University published a persuasive paper ( Bradley 1984 ) arguing that sex bias affected the assessment of student projects . |
| 14 | Loughborough University offers a four-year joint degree in Education and Library Studies , taught concurrently , and leading again to full dual qualification . |
| 15 | West Knitting fleece had a disappointing year , aggravated by the unfortunate coincidence of late product specification by a major customer with the launch of new screenprint brand which caused severe production and delivery difficulties . |
| 16 | NIRVANA made a shock 11th hour decision to cancel a major home-coming show in Seattle last Sunday . |
| 17 | The wide angle X-ray diffraction patterns obtained from pastes of either artificial granules of PHB-rich whole cells of Alcaligenes eutrophus show only an amorphous halo , whereas crystalline PHB powder gives a series of sharp peaks ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 18 | Nycodenz gradients show that the PHB particles have density 1.18 g cm -3 , the same as native granules and pure amorphous PHB ; crystalline PHB powder has a density of 1.241 g cm -3 ( ref. 8 ) . |
| 19 | Superintendent Dunlap of the Metropolitan Police and Inspector Arnold of Whitechapel Division argued a convincing case before the Lords ' Committee on the advantages of greater state powers . |
| 20 | Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement . |
| 21 | The Thunder Board has a 11 voice FM music synthesiser that is fully AdLib compatible a very large library of games support this standard . |
| 22 | As a result the X-ray absorption spectrum contains a precise signature of the atomic environment of a particular element . |
| 23 | Once this condition is reached , say with potential difference , balance is approached much better by adjusting the quadrature component to reach a new range to that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from some new much lower minimum . |
| 24 | Orient Express announced a loss of $5 million for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 25 | It is a fairly uncomplicated system that avoids any conflicts about objectives and the methods of achieving them , particularly when budget preparation follows a tight timetable . |
| 26 | Part of the system of plea bargaining involves a discount for an early plea of guilty , if prosecution costs and time are saved . |
| 27 | Conversely , the observable spectrum function has a value at wavenumber κ χ influenced by all eddies smaller than ( for reasons arising from the fact that only one-dimensional spectra can be observed . |
| 28 | A home-owning pensioner over 75 who does not qualify for income support gets a mere 50p a week extra rate . |
| 29 | When the policy was first implemented , there was no question but that those who were then on supplementary benefit and are now on income support gained a first-class service from the homes . |
| 30 | Income support makes a person 's income up to a level set by the Government . |