Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 2 | Robertson 's text offers an analytical if dry survey of the main trends of the Cardinal 's interests , but there is little revelation of his character : surely Haskell 's great example in Patrons and Painters proved the need for obeisance at the shrine of personality . |
| 3 | The second and most important divining technique involves an oracular substance ( benge ) which is credited by the Zande with possessing the power of distinguishing between contrary propositions and thus solving human dilemmas . |
| 4 | Needless to say , needless to say this deficit has not involved any additional call whatsoever upon the mission and aid fund of the church from which the Board receives an annual contribution of around four hundred thousand pounds towards its overall budget of twenty million pounds . |
| 5 | The platelet plays an important role in interacting with the coagulation system and certain intrinsic coagulation reactions occur preferentially on the platelet surface which appears to protect coagulation enzymes from inactivation by plasma proteinases and localises fibrin formation within and around the platelet plug ( Walsh , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | The long-gilt contract trades an imaginary or notional 20-year gilt with a yield to maturity ( YTM ) of 9 per cent . |
| 7 | Since then , the Conservatives ' system for electing a leader has effectively removed this power from the monarch , and providing each election produces an outright winning party , her actions are pretty well preordained . |
| 8 | Faith plays an enormous part in healing . |
| 9 | Consumer protection represents an important plank in the evolving structure of Community law and several Directives have been issued in this field , including Directives relating to consumer credit and doorstep transactions . |
| 10 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 11 | As a consequence there will be a force qv X B acting on the charges in the wire ; the mobile charges will be displaced until the arising electric field produces an equal and opposite force . |
| 12 | The Grey Corries ridge offers an uncomplicated viewpoint . |
| 13 | Subjective ( human ) judgement plays an important role in executive decision making . |
| 14 | Calcium plays an important role in the recovery of the rod outer segment to its dark state by regulating the resynthesis of cGMP by guanylate cyclase . |
| 15 | One further variation is to operate the motor with alternate one and two-phase-on excitation , i.e. A , AB , B BC , C , CA , A , --- Each excitation change produces an incremental movement which is half the length of a normal step and therefore this excitation is known as the " half-stepping " mode of operation . |
| 16 | What is significant for understanding why to is used with the infinitive of reaction is that the notion of " evaluation " implies a judgement as to whether the event was opportune or not , and this judgement involves an implicit reference to the situation as it existed before the infinitive event occurred , i.e. to the factors making its occurrence either opportune or inopportune . |
| 17 | The Monte Carlo simulation technique offers an effective means of identifying and demonstrating the effects of data uncertainty in a number of case studies drawn from the natural and social sciences . |
| 18 | In this typical example of scientific doublespeak , the burden of proof is , as usual , thrown on to conservationists to show that a fishing technique has an unacceptable effect , rather than on the fishing nations to show that the method is ecologically sound . |
| 19 | Strictly nocturnal predators like the eagle owls can entirely miss a common rodent species if that species is diurnal , and in these cases the prey assemblage has an unbalanced species composition compared with the small mammal community actually present . |
| 20 | Here it will suffice to note that this kind of investigation , employing techniques quite alien to the dominant tradition in linguistics , has revealed that conversational interaction has an elaborate and detailed structure of which we have very little conscious awareness . |
| 21 | British Rail has an ancient obligation to pay for its own police force . |
| 22 | The male has an extra pair of legs at his front end , called ovigerous legs . |
| 23 | Microscopic : The male has an asymmetrical dorsal lobe and barbed spicules ; the female usually has a vulval flap . |
| 24 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 25 | This story has an added interest . |
| 26 | The new AB TGI for 1991 has revealed that the Sunday Express has an outstanding level of coverage of AB Adults with sizeable amounts of savings and investments . |
| 27 | Application packages and command driven data management systems are two attractive approaches — the choice between then depending mainly on whether the user wants an instant solution or a tailored system . |
| 28 | 2911 built in 1920 was No 45000 , a saloon for Railway Officers , and originally the Chairman 's saloon , an LNWR body fitted to a MKI underframe and mounted on B4 bogies in 1967 ; this saloon has an all-wood body . |
| 29 | Each input-output processor has an extra 4Mb of memory that is accessible from the VMEbus and node . |
| 30 | While all this is happening the computer compiles an historical record of what goes on — a valuable data base from which lessons can be learned . |