Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new X-terminal offers a large user memory of 30Mb , and fits in with Forefront , Hitachi 's heterogeneous systems integration schema announced in February . |
| 2 | Although this freedom offers a better indicator than such things as matriliny or the worship goddesses , it also is not a clear indicator of the political and economic power , in spite of Engels 's belief to the contrary . |
| 3 | Once again , left ventricular function plays a key role . |
| 4 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 5 | This response represents the isomorphic struggle to resolve meaning , at the level of metaphor . |
| 6 | Mermaids have been sighted there and a ghost haunts a derelict bothy near the loch . |
| 7 | MacGregor 's bowerbird builds a complex bower of the ‘ maypole ’ type . |
| 8 | 16.14 In chapter 7 we say that literature plays an important role in improving abilities in speaking and listening , and in writing , as well as in reading . |
| 9 | For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies . |
| 10 | Because the scale is logarithmic , each whole number increment represents a tenfold change in acidity ; thus , solutions of pH 6 , 5 and 4 contain 1 , 10 and 100 microequivalents of acidity ( Hsup+ ; ) per litre respectively ( abbreviated u eq/l ) as illustrated in figure 4.2 . |
| 11 | In a glass case sits a shrivelled liver , which duplicates the function of an Energy Jewel ( 8 Magic Points ) . |
| 12 | The sudden appearance of glucose in the bloodstream and the corresponding rise in blood glucose level evokes a quick response from the pancreas and results in a brief state of apparent overabundance . |
| 13 | Since the Aberfan disaster in 1966 , the law requires that overburden be separated from other waste , and the dumping technique produces a new shape . |
| 14 | The National Curriculum represents a middle course — the present government believing that law by itself can not raise standards . |
| 15 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 16 | The Corporation Road building offers a wide range of options for the unemployed , including woodwork , motor vehicle engineering and needlecraft . |
| 17 | Only in the last 150 years have a number of these buildings been demolished , but even so it is only in Paris , Chartres and few other instances that an open space in front of the building offers a clear view . |
| 18 | The second and most important divining technique involves an oracular substance ( benge ) which is credited by the Zande with possessing the power of distinguishing between contrary propositions and thus solving human dilemmas . |
| 19 | Restructuring grant represents a specific commitment by the Government to the work force . |
| 20 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 21 | The contrast encourages the common view that Japan never alters . |
| 22 | The shell plays the same role for a snail as the stone house does for a caddis larva . |
| 23 | As she suggests , this supplementation produces a creative tension or uncertainty in the theory . |
| 24 | Needless to say , needless to say this deficit has not involved any additional call whatsoever upon the mission and aid fund of the church from which the Board receives an annual contribution of around four hundred thousand pounds towards its overall budget of twenty million pounds . |
| 25 | The platelet plays an important role in interacting with the coagulation system and certain intrinsic coagulation reactions occur preferentially on the platelet surface which appears to protect coagulation enzymes from inactivation by plasma proteinases and localises fibrin formation within and around the platelet plug ( Walsh , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Skerne Park offers no big supermarkets and no dentists , doctors or pharmacies . |
| 27 | The pretty Versiliana park offers a vast pine wood and Pietrasanta has some of the loveliest monuments in Versilia — a medieval cathedral , a church with three blind arches and an elegant gothic loggia , and ruins of a fortress . |
| 28 | Delapre Park offers a charming combination of an Elizabethan walled garden , parkland and woodland walks . |
| 29 | Ufford Park offers a stern test without being too physically demanding . |
| 30 | A balance of payments deficit involves a net outflow of currency . |