Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adj] device " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 4-megabit chip ought to sell for five times as much as a 1-megabit device , the price premium justified by the smaller space and lower power needed to provide four times the amount of memory . |
| 2 | The big difference of course between Designaknit Professional and a charting device , is that Designaknit Professional is a computer program rather than a knitting machine attachment . |
| 3 | Later though , a personal inspection is necessary , the man inside the suit never sure if a second device is timed to go off . |
| 4 | Evidently he thinks of the distinction as being no more than a useful device for developing and explaining his claim , that all ideas derive from experience . |
| 5 | . Whether this manoeuvre is more than a technical device is dubious . |
| 6 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 7 | As far as he was concerned she was nothing more than a time-and-labour-saving device required for the voyage . |
| 8 | There is no hint that dreaming , in this context , was any more than a poetic device , with no connotation of the supernatural simply from the fact that it was a dream . |
| 9 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 10 | In the countries of advanced capitalism , on the other hand , sub-central government is rather more than an administrative device . |
| 11 | But to attempt to isolate them , in practice , can be no more than an illustrative device since the language-game we use of human beings encapsulates the possibility that at any moment Mary can be summoned from such a state , or summon herself , to one of reflection about her reasons for adopting this or that tactic . |
| 12 | It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 13 | Three fire bombs had already been found and made safe when the first device went off , shortly after two this morning . |
| 14 | A p-channel transistor , relying on hole mobility , is usually slower than an n-channel device . |