Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also notes that the fact that transcendental meditation changes one 's brain waves does not imply that it is in any way helpful ; he might have added that the brain waves during meditation show a remarkable resemblance to those of someone who is drowsy or even asleep . |
| 2 | It is important to understand that there are two different ways of approaching this question , one being to consider what the speaker does in producing stressed syllables and the other being to consider what characteristics of sound make a syllable seem to a listener to be stressed . |
| 3 | Do methods of communication play a part in the creation of this desirable environment ? |
| 4 | It is a truth universally acknowledged that readers of Business have a wide range of abilities . |
| 5 | If not , will halls of residence pay a business rate only during the recesses ? |
| 6 | Four sparse squares of grass surround a clumsy stone plinth with the incongruous bust of Miguel Grau , a seriously mutton-chopped Peruvian hero , sitting sternly on top . |
| 7 | It can be gathered from every conversation that the people 's comrades from all walks of life want a return to the living standard of the pre-war era as soon as possible , and do n't lay the slightest value on going down in history . ’ |
| 8 | No modern anthropologist doubts the uncomfortably revolutionary conclusion that all aspects of society form a whole and that none is independent of the moment of history characterized by this transitory , all-embracing system . |
| 9 | And since at least some aspects of deixis make a difference to truth conditions , we may hope that this shift will coincide with the decision to restrict semantics to the truth-conditional aspects of meaning . |
| 10 | Thick swathes of greenery give a luxuriant festive touch — drape them around apiece of furniture , around a beam , or twist around the handrail of the staircase . |
| 11 | Call-note of drake a whistling ‘ crrick , crrick ’ , of duck a short , high-pitched quack ; courting parties in spring utter a chorus of bell-like notes . |
| 12 | He estimates it is ‘ cheaper to discard books already in stock , rather than building additional storage space of reader access quality , if the books in question have a prospective frequency of use that has fallen below once in about 13 years ’ . |
| 13 | Some books on conveyancing have a chapter on searches such as Conveyancing by I R Storey ( Butterworths ) geared to the Law Society 's conveyancing course and examinations . |
| 14 | Thus , protestant loyalists fight incorporation into a united Ireland for the reason that their perception of protestantism and their values of polity contain a powerful rejection of catholic monopoly , which they identify with catholicism tout court . |
| 15 | Drawing on the re-evaluation of emotion characteristic of contemporary feminist theory and practice , she argues that feminist conceptions of emotion constitute a critique of dualist conceptions of mind found in much Western philosophy in the English-speaking world and elsewhere . |
| 16 | Its accounts of anorexia , for instance , are dominated by descriptions of how dominant discourses of femininity link a narrowly defined physical attractiveness to female sexuality and success . |
| 17 | Many cases of induction involve a signal from the cells underlying a cell sheet . |
| 18 | The two houses of Congress employ a bureaucracy with a huge appetite for independent research . |
| 19 | The staunchest opponents of reform strike a revealing pose : rather than argue against it , they seek to undermine it by espousing an extreme version . |
| 20 | Any visible signs of inflammation indicate a more serious scalp problem which needs special treatment ( see below ) . |
| 21 | The survey by accountants Price Waterhouse and Manchester Business School says definite signs of recovery include a greater degree of confidence in sales growth , and a rise in companies planning to increase capital expenditure . |
| 22 | The rules of court contain a table which lists the various applications which may be made under the Act and specifies who must be named as a respondent ( FPCR , Sched 2 ; FPR , Appendix 3 ) . |
| 23 | Notice that the times of waking become a little later each day and this indicates that the cycle length is greater than 24 hours , about 25 hours in the case shown . |
| 24 | embryos the patterns of expression undergo a series of modifications between 8.5–10.5 d.p.c. , as indicated by the series of sketches . |
| 25 | While the younger generation will all know and use London English and the older generation will have knowledge of a Creole variety , the actual patterns of use involve a complex interplay between these varieties and others . |
| 26 | To suggest that some oral forms of education involve a use of words that lack ‘ classificatory and analytic isolating functions ’ , as Greenfield does , is meaningless . |
| 27 | What lends the work a more than merely programmatic cohesion is , I think , the extreme sensitivity of Mason 's ear for harmony : the strangest agglomerations of texture have a vertical consistency in terms of pitch that identify them all as integral parts of the same piece . |
| 28 | Given the limited scope of a paper , I will for reasons of economy develop a critique of the concept ‘ profession ’ in relation to the work of Terence Johnson ( 1972 ) . |
| 29 | Birds of prey cause a lot of argument on a walk . |
| 30 | Birds of prey have a wild side no matter how calm they look or how tame they appear to be . |