Example sentences of "a simple [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steering is provided by a simple rudder . |
| 2 | A simple consideration of human nature is sufficient to reveal the consequences ( unrecorded in the Gospels ) of Jesus 's behaviour . |
| 3 | A simple route up one bank of the river and a return by the other takes the walker through delightful Strid Wood , alongside The Strid — where the Wharfe is constricted through a deep , narrow channel — and the attractive High Strid . |
| 4 | It was a simple route , left on to the Strasse der Einheit , up to the Platz der Einheit , across the vast square and straight up the 97 . |
| 5 | Entrants will guide themselves to various fixed points on a simple route which sticks to tracks and existing paths . |
| 6 | If this were a simple conflict between attack and escape , it would have led to threat displays . |
| 7 | At first sight this appears as a simple conflict of competing demands upon a given quantity of surplus-value . |
| 8 | Cylinders of acetylene were believed to have gone up in what was originally reported as a simple barn fire . |
| 9 | Beyond it , protected by a high stone wall , was a small chapel in the grounds of which were a number of graves , each one marked by a simple marble marker ; some were actually decorated by headstones or crosses . |
| 10 | A simple pergola and screen provide light and shade . |
| 11 | Next Month : The construction of a simple Artwork Light-Box will round off this short series . |
| 12 | These are discrete behaviours and all they require is a simple tick every time they are observed . |
| 13 | From the above argument a simple hypothesis can be inferred : when these environmental uncertainties increase so the strain towards corporate criminal activity will increase . |
| 14 | A simple hypothesis that unifies these observations is that GGF-II ( or other GGFs ) stimulates Schwann cells to divide by activating the tyrosine kinase of p185 erbB2 or a closely related subtype of that receptor . |
| 15 | The next equation of the model formally states a simple hypothesis about demand in each market : where is the quantity of output demanded in the th market ; is the quantity of nominal money held by consumers in the th market in period t ; and α is a coefficient . |
| 16 | For a simple evaluation of intestinal bacteria we previously reported reliable results in animals with a PABA-UDCA test involving oral administration of PABA-UDCA which contains p -aminobenzoic acid ( PABA ) as a tracer group . |
| 17 | Neither approach seems entirely satisfactory , although the latter may have the advantage of facilitating a simple architecture , with a uni-directional flow of information from the bottom upwards . |
| 18 | Beasant let a Mark Walters cross slip through his hands , leaving Jamie Redknapp a simple tap-in . |
| 19 | But Everton were not to be denied , and they produced another brilliant move as Beardsley and Warzycha combined to allow Cottee a simple tap-in . |
| 20 | Oldham had gone in front after six minutes when Nick Henry and Ian Olney combined superbly to leave Scottish U-21 midfielder Paul Bernard with a simple tap-in on the line . |
| 21 | Laboratory and field tests have been conducted of course , but a simple look at their often gaudy hues , essential to their behavioural repertoire , is enough to tell us that they too , perceive fine gradations of colour . |
| 22 | Some of the figure drawing in these works is quite beautiful and there is a simple freshness in Rego 's use of watercolour and line . |
| 23 | My aim is only to point out that the situation is more complex than a simple division between ‘ Western monotheism ’ and ‘ Eastern polytheism ’ . |
| 24 | It must reject an analysis of Northern politics which consists of a simple division of people into Unionists and anti-Unionists . |
| 25 | In a simple instance , such as hunger , the stimulus is particularly noticeable to a hungry animal , which then works hard to obtain the food . |
| 26 | To take a simple instance : in the heyday of the Enlightenment , Homeric poetry would have been treated primarily like its Virgilian equivalent — as a work of a certain kind ( epic ) , embodying given characteristics of its genre or of poetry as a whole . |
| 27 | It calls on the speculative ability of a scientist ( for the so-called laws of sound-change such as Grimm 's Law and Verner 's Law are , like scientific laws , working hypotheses about the development of sound ) ; it also requires a workable memory and a simple ability to reason , to see logical consequences , an ability not always found among students of literature . |
| 28 | Now question is whether or not there is a simple ability to realise a capital receipt and use it I think , and if that were true , if what you 're saying is true and there was some net gain to be made very easily then I think we would have a hard time , perhaps , refusing what you 're saying . |
| 29 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 30 | Le Déjeuner — a simple midday meal after a morning in the fields . |