Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark reminds his readers that discipleship makes a total demand . |
| 2 | They are best told apart by the differences in head shape — labiatum has thicker lips and citrinellum has a larger hump resulting in a steeper forehead profile . |
| 3 | Detection of genetic alterations in ulcerative colitis associated carcinomas and dysplasia provides a range of potential markers for early diagnosis . |
| 4 | Somerset Maugham 's Cakes and Ale mocks a vain middlebrow bestseller called Alvin Kear , modelled on Hugh Walpole . |
| 5 | 2 Inner cities and employment includes a comparison of employment and economic regeneration in the inner city between London and Birmingham , a study of health and safety issues for black workers , a study of economic aspects of equal opportunity initiatives in employment , and a study of the effects of welfare restructuring on black communities and the potentialities and limitations of the voluntary sector in welfare provision for black people . |
| 6 | If we accept that the ratio of assets held by institutions is a matter of careful choice and that normally their asset portfolio is in equilibrium , then it follows that the loss of notes and coin produces a secondary effect . |
| 7 | The radiation of the African great apes and man represents a set of adaptations by a common stock , the Dryopithecine apes , to differing ecological conditions . |
| 8 | ‘ Police officers may also be working in stressful conditions and stress plays a part in back pain , ’ she said . |
| 9 | The FASB plans , however , to retain the current practice of using the amortised cost method for debt securities that management has a positive intent to hold to maturity . |
| 10 | This is a good time to give ponds , bubble fountains and water sprouts a seasonal check , and prepare them for winter . |
| 11 | For example , while sexual dimorphism in size is likely to evolve where variation in male success is greater than female success and a given increment in body size has the same effect on breeding success in both sexes , it will also evolve if variation in reproductive success is similar in both sexes but size has a greater influence on success in males or even if variation in success is greater in females but the effects of size are greater among males . |
| 12 | The layout of controls and switchgear takes a while to assimilate , though . |
| 13 | This music is simplicity itself , yet the skilful use of pairings and imitation yields a vital expression which has both subtlety and intellectual appeal . |
| 14 | During the summer weekends and bank holidays a locally organised ‘ voluntary wardening scheme ’ comes into action . |
| 15 | The purpose of information is to enable people to make better decisions and accounting plays a major role in the vital area of decisions about finance and investment . |
| 16 | The third concept we take to be well in advance of what is practically possible at the moment , though the long-term impact of the project and of such innovations as GCSE remains a matter of conjecture . |
| 17 | These normally private functions can assume unusually large proportions if illness limits a person 's capacity for self care . |
| 18 | Doctors in the UK have recently been warned that RSI may soon reach epidemic proportions as public recognition increases and compensation becomes a reality . |
| 19 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 20 | Conventional psychological method 's association of women and sociability recognizes a specifically female psychological orientation . |
| 21 | Twice a week we have an assembly and , as a rule , assemblies are about the only occasions that Christianity gets a mention at school . |