Example sentences of "[noun] attached to a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The most keenly felt was a condition attached to a large scale loan from the International Monetary Fund in 1976 requiring a reduction of £1 billion in public expenditure to support the external value of sterling .
2 Each organ consists of sensitive hairs attached to a jelly-like rod , which bends in the direction of any water movement .
3 The Mechrolab osmometer , shown schematically in figure 9.3 , consists of a solution + solvent cell of volume approximately 1 cm 3 , with the solvent side connected to a reservoir attached to a servo-driven elevator .
4 A saw cut in the end of each 1½ × ¾in ash runner has the effect of reducing the thickness of each piece to be bent , in effect allowing a laminated curve attached to a solid straight runner .
5 When pH was outside the calibrated range ( 6.838 to 7.382 ) it was recorded manually by a glass electrode attached to a standard pH meter ( PHM 82 , Radiometer , Copenhagen ) and calibrated by standard buffer solutions at pH 4 , 7 , and 10 .
6 PREVIOUSLY uncatchable fish are being suckered into grabbing baits and flies attached to a new ‘ invisible ’ line .
7 So there are occasions when it is important to check the meaning attached to a particular word .
8 The latter is concerned with the duties and rights attached to a particular job title .
9 N.B. It should be noted that in Austria twin beds often consist of two separate mattresses attached to a single frame or headboard and they can not be separated .
10 Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator .
11 Train ivy , variegated for choice , into a spiral shape by trailing the plant around a heavy wire spiral attached to a stout stake .
12 He was a permanent staff instructor attached to a local Territorial Army unit .
13 Eventually I threw up into a litter bin attached to a crowded bus shelter on St George 's Road .
14 He found the tape recorder attached to a small alcove carved out from underneath the desk .
15 A cheap alternative to a radio microphone that produces acceptable recordings of one speaker is to use a small tape recorder attached to a tie-clip microphone .
16 The b -boundary is the projection into a space-time of a natural boundary attached to a higher-dimensional Riemannian manifold .
17 As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body .
18 Not all have done so ; most have designated the Central Authority ( including in the case of the United Kingdom the subsidiary authorities in each part of the U.K. ) , but others have specified the president or registrar of or public prosecutor attached to a local court within whose area the addressee is to be found .
19 The electrons are deflected down on to the specimen by a pair of adjustable magnets attached to a movable carriage on the top of the specimen chamber .
20 Then insert the flushing needle attached to a 1 ml syringe filled with M2 + BSA .
21 The coercive approach to moral reform , however , seeks either to change the law , or at least , to invoke legal sanctions in its attempt to reaffirm the status attached to a particular social group or class .
22 So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power .
23 This was a deaf unit attached to a Central High School .
24 Thus , there are parish boundaries defining land attached to a particular church ; more recently , civil parishes , which in many cases only vaguely now relate to religious parishes , have been defined for administrative purposes .
25 It 's a Roman Catholic boarding school attached to a Benedictine Monastery .
26 She was out running , wearing a pair of headphones attached to a personal cassette recorder , and could not hear small sounds around her because her ears and mind were filled with music .
27 So , an enterprising chap by the name of Len Middleton came up with an idea that would present the bait on fine , supple line ( the hair ) , and yet still have a strong hook attached to a strong , somewhat rigid line .
28 We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again .
29 There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 .
30 His house , into which he welcomes his visitors with open hospitality , is a charming , three-storeyed Victorian building attached to a smaller unit which acts as the atelier for his lifelong friend , the sculptor Morton Rosengarten , and his charming painter-wife , Violet .
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