Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.

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1 The operating statement for the year shows a deficit of NZ$5.149bn on revenues ( mostly tax ) of NZ$27.3bn ( roughly , NZ$3 = £1 ) .
2 A research approach which regards placement as incidental to the achievement of specified goals for the child puts a different perspective on the social work task and directs attention to a wider range of dimensions related to the child 's current experience , longer-term development and future life-chances .
3 The author draws the conversation to a close with the comment that Murray was still too young to realise that ‘ fighting under any circumstances is a dreadful business , and that the person who gives the cause for the fight does a very wicked thing , utterly hateful in the sight of God .
4 Just For The Night stocks a wide range of evening dresses in sizes 8 to 20 , from the simple to the very glamorous .
5 Once assembled , they are welcomed by the captain and the judge for the day gives a short address .
6 When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance .
7 especially if you 're using theta for the angle looks a bit like theta .
8 Patrick Edgeworth 's Boswell For The Defence has a plot of sorts — the barrister 's defence of Mary Broad , an escapee from the penal colony at Sydney Cove — but , in the end , the form defeats any narrative thrust .
9 The interactional structure for the talker requires a sustaining of partner 's attention .
10 The Activity Book for the student contains a wealth of material which ensures that the maximum benefit will be gained from the video .
11 But one very rough guess by Paul Portney of Resources for the Future suggests a cumulative cost , in 1990 dollars , of perhaps $136 billion , roughly half of which will fall on the private sector and disproportionately on manufacturing .
12 CamHealth for the Environment features a number of facilities to help companies meet their obligations to the ‘ duty of care ’ and ‘ duty of aftercare ’ expressed and implied in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 .
13 For example , the Secretary of State for the Environment has a duty , not just a power , to compile lists of buildings of historic and architectural interest .
14 THE SECRETARY of State for the Environment has a duty — not just a power — laid on him by parliament , to compile lists of buildings which are of historic and architectural interest .
15 Suppose that the recording system maintained during the intervention shows a PB decrease and a CB increase .
16 A simple statistical procedure known as the z-score assigns a score to the strength of association between the lemma and each of its collocates .
17 Clearly a great deal of what religious traditions have to say about the Deity presupposes a personal God .
18 ‘ At the heart of many current discussions about the family lies a model with which present ways of life are contrasted .
19 Like other key notions in psychoanalysis , the sense of desire as a quest for an always impossible self-completion in or through the other has a long though oft en unrecognized history .
20 Of course , transmitting values through the curriculum assumes a degree of consensus , the existence of which is questionable in a pluralist society .
21 Radiating out from the speaker are a number of concentric circles distinguishing different zones of spatial proximity ; through the speaker passes a " tame line " , on which events prior to his present utt rance , and events prior to those , can be linearly arranged , and similarly events at points and spans in the future ; while the discourse to which the speaker contributes unfolds along this same time line .
22 The hole through the middle has a diameter of 16Å .
23 The bending and difficulty for the plant of getting sap through the restriction constitutes a threat , and the reaction to this is to try to make sure of the perpetuation of its own species by making seed — which , of course , has to be preceded by flower , and lots of it !
24 A severe hangover Whoever runs the economy after the election has a job on their hands .
25 RECOVERY A severe hangover Whoever runs the economy after the election has a job on their hands .
26 In many ways , the area at the top of the tree parallels a structure called the ‘ Spectrum of Response ’ which I described in 1985 .
27 The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern .
28 In order to store a piece of information , it is placed in the SDR ; the address at which it is to be stored is placed in the SAR , and the control unit of the computer sends a ‘ write ’ signal to the store .
29 The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table .
30 This remained a problem throughout the lifetime of the scheme , though the magnitude of the problem remains a matter of some controversy .
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