Example sentences of "a [adv] occurring [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poison , which is a naturally occurring by-product , is found mainly in the liver , intestine and reproductive system and finds its way into the eggs . |
| 2 | This is a naturally occurring colour , comprising 5–10 per cent of the wild population in the UK , that is bred into minks . |
| 3 | It may not be possible to adequately define ‘ damage ’ to the environment , or even to detect it , when the environmental impact of a genetically engineered bacterium may be as undramatic as replacing a naturally occurring species of bacterium . |
| 4 | It was closely related to a naturally occurring substance . |
| 5 | There must be a naturally occurring substance which acts on the receptors , and , if so , it was likely that it was made and , when appropriate , let loose close to the opiate receptors , especially in the brain . |
| 6 | They were used in the development of the syntax and collocational components of RM1 and provide data on which these should do well , while offering a naturally occurring distribution of segments . |
| 7 | Finally , while Chomsky assumed that without a priori knowledge , a distributional analysis of a naturally occurring language sample would inevitably fail to identify correspondences between words and their respective lexical roles , more recent studies have suggested that this view may have been unduly pessimistic ( Maratsos 1983 ) . |
| 8 | Water vapour is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas but the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by human activities . |
| 9 | Every living cell has a naturally occurring vibration which relates not only to its level of energy , its mass and its form but to the nature of the medium in which it vibrates — its environment . |
| 10 | The next extension from such situations to increase the realism is to show arousing situations in a naturally occurring context , for example by showing the build up to a crime or road accident . |
| 11 | In this context , a concept is regarded as a word which summarizes a regularly occurring process within the subjects taught in the Modern Studies syllabus . |
| 12 | One of these is that foot ( in the relevant sense ) demands the presence of a specific lexical partner ; pronominal anaphoric reference to a previously occurring bill apparently will not do : |