Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [v-ing] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curve in one direction needs balancing by a curve or curves in the opposing direction . |
| 2 | Compulsory labour involves working at a site designated by the authorities , where prisoners are under surveillance and restricted in their movements . |
| 3 | Where the engagement involves acting for a client in an acquisition search , steps should be taken to ensure that the client is a serious acquirer with specific acquisition criteria ( which MAS may help to develop and refine ) and that there is a reasonable likelihood that the firm can discover potential acquisition candidates . |
| 4 | Although the computer industry enjoys getting into a tizzy about the ever-increasing number of processors , anyone buying a 386SX 18 months ago would have wanted it to last at least three years . |
| 5 | This chapter defines planning as a broad process which involves the establishment of objectives and the formulation , evaluation and selection of policies , strategies and actions needed to achieve the objectives . |
| 6 | ( Confidingly ) Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the Rape of the Sabine Women — or rather woman , or rather Alfred — ( Over his shoulder ) Get your skirt on , Alfred — ( The BOY starts struggling into a female robe. ) … and for eight you can participate . |
| 7 | In 1978 Foucault suggested that post-war French philosophy divides according to a line ‘ which separates a philosophy of experience , meaning and the subject from a philosophy of savoir , rationality and the concept ’ : in other words , Sartre and Merleau-Ponty , against Cavaillès , Bachelard and Canguilhem , or the return-to-Hegel of Kojève in the thirties , versus the return-to-Rant initiated in the philosophy of the sciences by Léon Brunschvicg in the late nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Not only that but where the nature of the work requires working in a team then how is the performance of the individual team member assessed ? |
| 9 | This sequence is carried out by hardware , which also checks that the stack pointer remains pointing at a location within the stack area . |
| 10 | Sometimes , the variables are not connected by a simple linear relationship , the nature of their relationship is non-linear ( curvilinear ) , i.e. , its description requires fitting of a curve ( exponential growth curve , logistic , etc. ) instead of a straight line . |
| 11 | A compass indicates a direction and compass orientation means moving in a set direction relative to a compass ; for example , the animal might always fly southwards , regardless of starting point it would need some internal ‘ compass ’ sense but nothing more . |
| 12 | Part of my role involves acting as a tutor to them . |
| 13 | In those days the government assessed local authority needs according to a very in the grant related expenditure assessment , G R E A , greas and this is much more complex and sensitive measure of how much it costs to run a city and in those days what the government thought we should be spending and what we thought we should be spending seemed in fact to be very close indeed . |
| 14 | But tactical or not , the argument remains striking as a passing diagnosis , if unpersuasive as a programme . |
| 15 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 16 | Your speedo needs changing for a LWB or recalibrating by a specialist company . |
| 17 | To realize this the corporatist state operates according to a number of principles of administration . |
| 18 | This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile in terms of the following parameters : |
| 19 | Her latest pester-the-public project involves hanging outside a shoe repair shop and testing people 's trust by asking to take a copy of their house key . |
| 20 | It is quite possible to put a 4 cylinder engine into your 6 cylinder Land Rover The gearbox bell housing needs changing for a 4 cylinder version and the engine mountings must be cut off the chassis and moved backwards 6 inches Use a 4 cylinder exhaust system and cut 6 inches from the front pipe Use the 6 cylinder clutch Throttle linkage can be adapted from 4 cylinder cable , fuel pipes need modifying and the electric fuel pump removed Water pipes can be lengthened or use One Ten pipes cut to suit . |
| 21 | After that going for gold involves participating in a wide range of activities over a period of at least 18 months . |
| 22 | As shown earlier , calcium phosphate starts precipitating at a pH of about 6 . |
| 23 | The dialectic of autonomy is one in which a constant ( but never static or final ) search for control and coherence needs balancing against a realism and tolerance born out of efforts to understand ourselves ( and others ) better . |
| 24 | They concluded that while different professionals and agencies use quite different definitions of the problem , on the whole the system operates according to a ‘ rule of optimism ’ whereby , wherever possible , the most favourable interpretation of family , particularly parental , circumstances is made and hence situations of actual and potential abuse are kept to a minimum . |
| 25 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 26 | Among African baboons , males transfer between groups and a powerful male begins travelling with a stranger troop , gradually gaining acceptance as a member . |
| 27 | The family goes foraging as a group within a large home range and establishes a variety of bases for refuges which seem to be used at different times of the year . |
| 28 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 29 | Moderation means drinking at a level which is enjoyable and harmless , without suffering from short-term drunkenness or long-term health hazards . |
| 30 | Gracious living at maison Rosenbloom means eating from a plate instead of straight from the takeaway container . |