Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [am/are] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the chances of a woman developing rheumatoid arthritis after a delivery are small , the researchers have nevertheless provided new evidence that hormones do play a role in some cases of the disease . |
| 2 | Those unfortunate enough to be carried away after a crackdown are uncertain whether they will return alive . |
| 3 | The sources of a convention are open-ended and diverse . |
| 4 | The Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 expressly recognizes that works produced by or with the aid of a computer are worthy of copyright protection . |
| 5 | The studies using arousing stimuli with many components and exploring memory for different aspects of the stimuli separately ( e.g. Christianson & Loftus , 1987 , 1991 ; Christianson et al. , 1991 ; Heuer & Reisberg , 1990 ) have the additional problem of deciding a priori which aspects of a stimulus are central and which are peripheral . |
| 6 | The effects of a drug are dependent upon the relationship of three factors — the pharmacological properties of the drug , the mental state of the drug user , and the setting in which the drug is taken . |
| 7 | incorrect or ineffective decisions may be made , due to the fact that members of a committee are unfamiliar with the deeper aspects of issues under discussion . |
| 8 | All these features of a culture are apparent in the academic community . |
| 9 | The skulls of an elephant and of a man are different shapes , but this is not because the molecules which fit together to make an elephant 's skull are a different shape from those that make a human skull . |
| 10 | As a result the science , education , art , technology and institutions of a society are dependent on its religious motive . |
| 11 | Where the partners of a firm are numerous , frequent meetings of the full body become impracticable . |
| 12 | Short-term or emergency policies to try to reduce the pollution levels during a smog and to cope with the adverse health effects and economic disruption of a smog are complex . |
| 13 | Furthermore , external auditors are left with a very difficult decision as to whether they should report to a third party if they suspect the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 14 | The panel would have responsibility for counselling the external assessors on whether they should report to a third party when they suspect that the directors of a company are involved in fraud or other illegal activities . |
| 15 | So it is not only the inward patterning of particular species which makes creatures different , but individual members of a species are different , too , and most species can distinguish fellow members of their kind by sight , sound , smell or other senses and probably by behavioural patterns too , just as we do among our fellow humans . |
| 16 | This quadratic form is not , as previously , a sum of squares ; but provided it is not zero we could choose di to make the element unity , when we should have ( with X for Xd ) unc On account of the properties established here , it is usual to say that the modes of a system are orthogonal to each other . |
| 17 | It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms . |
| 18 | These findings raise another problem with stimulation methods , which is that the effects of stimulating at individual points in a system are only readily interpretable when the effects of activating separate parts of a system are additive . |
| 19 | : where the users of a system are likely to be casual or perhaps untrained in keyboard skills ( a situation that is becoming increasingly more commonplace ) , the use of speech or handwriting may be more appropriate than typed input ; |
| 20 | The essentials of a partnership are present from the start : the process is carefully planned , outcomes are clear , ownership is shared , and a coherent set of available quality measures exists . |
| 21 | But his chances of a fullrecovery are slim |
| 22 | Because chemical methods are rather limited , the most widely used techniques for measuring the molar mass of a polymer are physical . |
| 23 | This test is based on the following implications of the hypothesis : if expectations of a variable are rational , they are formed in accordance with the process determining that variable and therefore they will depend upon any set of past variables in exactly the same way as the variable itself depends upon that set of past variables . |
| 24 | The essence of it is that if expectations of a variable are rational they will be determined by the process governing that variable . |
| 25 | Not only will it alter but the spectrum might be reduced to one ; a court could say that although hypothetically varying interpretations of a term are possible , they are convinced that their view is the correct one . |
| 26 | It is unlikely , however , that a traveller will bring luggage to the inn , and since the traveller 's car and goods contained therein can not be the subject of a lien , cases where the lien is exercised over the property of a traveller are rare . |
| 27 | FEW PEOPLE WAITING EXPECTANTLY to board the passenger liner QE2 for the holiday of a lifetime are likely to give much thought to the part that ICI 's Chlor-chemicals business will be playing in their journey . |
| 28 | We could not claim , as part of the explicit extension , that if the words of a statute are clear in themselves the law contains that clear meaning , for example . |
| 29 | When the properties of a material are uniform in all directions , the material is said to be isotropic . |
| 30 | The advantages of using your own transport or having electricity available at the flick of a switch are obvious , but are the benefits of the chemical industry really recognised , or do we take for granted the improvements it has brought to our life-style ? |