Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 2 | Accordingly , the level of bargaining influences the distribution of internal union power . |
| 3 | So it may be that IgE-mediated allergy plays a role in more than 20 per cent of cases , when other types of allergen , besides food , are taken into account . |
| 4 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 5 | The answer to that may be that lowering cholesterol influences the level of serotonin , a neurotransmitter which affects mood . |
| 6 | I have already argued in this chapter ( p. 79 ) that the rat 's level of arousal can help determine the vigour of the OR ; and , theoretically more important , in this and in previous chapters I have argued that the decline of this investigatory response represents the operation of a process of habituation . |
| 7 | A pointer is touched against each point of intersection on the grid and the digitizer records the position in the computer . |
| 8 | As it is , a different worry confronts the West : how best to get the Bosnian Serbs to change their minds . |
| 9 | And my mum thinks a home she wants to take me to a psychiatrist or something . |
| 10 | You 've got some mate , do n't worry Mm , lovely bread mm , mm , mm Mum thinks the decoration it 's lovely , she said tell him you 've done a really good job , shush |
| 11 | The gardener bowerbird , for example , constructs the most remarkably complicated , hut-like bower , while the golden bowerbird builds a maypole bower up to 3 m ( 10 ft ) high , gluing the sticks together with fungus and then decorating the whole structure with fruit , flowers and moss . |
| 12 | This story involves a youth hostel in the town of Ramsey in the Isle of Man whose narrow-gauge railway has brought pleasure and fascination to many people either as holiday makers or railway enthusiasts since the 1870s . |
| 13 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 14 | There is no sense that the audience at either play represents the cutting edge of unorthodoxy , buzzing with the enjoyment of dissent . |
| 15 | Answer guide : A creditor represents an amount owing by an enterprise to a third party . |
| 16 | Sept. 20 : The French referendum produces a vote narrowly in favour of ratification of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 17 | At the moment the computer receives the pulse from the Light Rifle it compares the value of its scan registers with the screen position of the target and , if a match is found , the player has hit it . |
| 18 | Although in the Iliad the word dikē denotes a judgement given by a judge or an assertion by a party to a dispute of his rights , in the Odyssey it signifies ‘ right ’ or ‘ custom ’ . |
| 19 | This kind of decision fits the model of a ‘ weighing ’ of considerations ; we may think of the man as piling items pro and con on opposite sides of a balance and making his judgement after one side goes down . |
| 20 | It is estimated that some 30 per cent of the overhead and marketing budget represents the cost of production and distribution of brochures . |
| 21 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 22 | At the bottom level sits the SQL Server engine itself . |
| 23 | At the bottom level sits the SQL Server engine itself . |
| 24 | Such provision represents the Group 's share of the estimated liability for costs which may be incurred in removing production platforms and facilities at the end of the producing life of each field . |
| 25 | One Sunday morning after he had gone to his chapel and I to my church , he came back excitedly waving a newspaper and said ‘ Listen to this , ’ and he read the Dylan Thomas poem ‘ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ The force that through the green fuse drives the flower . ’ |
| 27 | Even the vegetarian has to cut the force , that through the green fuse drives the lettuce , in order to be able to live and say that meat is murder . |
| 28 | This change erodes the distinction between university and what were previously known as ‘ public sector ’ institutions , and may blur what Burgess ( 1977 , pp. 2332 ) has argued is a contrast between the ‘ autonomous ’ ( university ) and ‘ service ’ ( polytechnic/ college ) traditions . |
| 29 | The technique involves a network of irrigation pipes running from the store to a point on the headland . |
| 30 | The technique involves the partitioning of words in the text into classes based on certain similarities , and then further partitioning based on small word contexts . |