Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the hall mark of a contract of sale that seller and buyer each enter a commitment that there will be a transfer of ownership from the seller to the buyer . |
| 2 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 3 | US West Inc , which last week was talking about the multimedia database system it is developing with Oracle Corp ( CI No 2,166 ) , is stepping up its commitment to infotainment by agreeing to pay $2,500m for a 25% stake in Time Warner Inc 's Time Warner Entertainment affiliate — in which Toshiba Corp and Japanese trader Itochu Corp each has a stake — to seal a deal under which the two companies will collaborate to develop electronic superhighways — full-service cable networks offering interactive programming , entertainment and information . |
| 4 | In the first instance this includes a literature review . |
| 5 | What we did : Hair was cut quite a bit shorter using a razor and texturising shears for an asymmetric feel . |
| 6 | As a description this has a lot of force but description must not be confused with prescription . |
| 7 | In due course this became a grievance and from early days , no doubt , it could be commuted for payment in money . |
| 8 | In part this reflects a reluctance to let outsiders interfere with the job of policing , as well as a suspicion about soci — ology , which for many policemen sounds too much like the word ‘ socialist ’ ; social work suffers from the same association . |
| 9 | It is sometimes argued that indirect taxes are , in welfare terms , preferable to direct taxes , as they leave the taxpayer free to make a choice . |
| 10 | Figure 4.10 shows a bar.code for a book and for a pupil . |
| 11 | To illustrate these concepts , Figure 1.2 gives a section of program to compare the contents of locations 100 and 101 , and store the larger value in location 102 . |
| 12 | figure 2.3 paints a sketch of the business universe having a number of major subsystems and environmental systems which relate to the business . |
| 13 | Figure 2.3 illustrates a production flow in the TV industry with just three stages , but these would have to be extended many times to include all the firms involved . |
| 14 | Figure 8.4 shows a radar beam travelling from Earth ( E ) to Venus ( V ) and passing a distance b from the sun . |
| 15 | Figure 9.13 Creating a value for t |
| 16 | Darlington Memorial Hospital should see increased income from GP fund-holders in the coming year with a North Yorkshire practice due to become a fund-holder from April 1 . |
| 17 | Figure 6.10 depicts a theory of labour market adjustment which is , to all intents and purposes , indistinguishable from that of A. C. Pigou and his classical contemporaries . |
| 18 | The pianist due to play a concerto in public spends many hours in practising the techniques of using his instrument that the piece requires . |
| 19 | Figure 5.12 shows a part of the image in Figure 5.3(a) magnified by a factor of 4 . |
| 20 | This trend has been even more marked for rural areas ; figure 6.1 shows a decline of some 29 per cent in passenger journeys by rural buses between 1965 and 1975 . |
| 21 | Social Anthropology 2 addresses a range of current issues in social anthropology including symbolic classification , witchcraft and magic , environment and society , gender , and ethnicity and conflict . |
| 22 | Figure 8.2 provides a summary of the present pattern of local government in England and Wales . |
| 23 | Figure 2 shows a compilation of age determinations indicating times of high lake levels for the Kenya rift valley in comparison with results from the present study . |
| 24 | Figure 2 shows a design where both the background and the second colour are changed periodically and Sample 2 shows a section of knitted fabric created in Norwegian jacquard . |
| 25 | Chapter 2 contains a discussion of alternative data structures for spatial data . |
| 26 | Chapter 2 contains a list of the practical strengths of various materials . |
| 27 | We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding . |
| 28 | Chapter 12 contains a discussion of the possibility of quantizing the gravitational force in the same way that the electromagnetic and other forces are quantized . |
| 29 | To provide more easily quantifiable measures of memory performance , Study 2 used a recognition paradigm . |
| 30 | In practice this means a regularity in mealtimes , times of physical and social activity , and times of going to bed and rising . |