Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The lower status of general courses may be more a function of the students who take them than of their content and the association with ordinary rather than honours degrees . |
| 32 | The motivation to perform is seen as a function of the beliefs that individuals have concerning future rewards multiplied by the value they place on those rewards . |
| 33 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 34 | One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation . |
| 35 | Equation ( 5.4 ) is a respecification of the process driving the quantity of money : it assumes that the quantity of money in period t equals its value in period t - 1 plus a constant , g , plus a function of the shocks to aggregate demand in periods t - 1 and t - 2 . |
| 36 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
| 37 | The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled . |
| 38 | The performances of the two groups of readers were then compared as a function of the features which might be predicted to increase the difficulty of the sentences . |
| 39 | The amount of radiation absorbed is a function of the concentrations of pigments and their arrangement in the chloroplasts . |
| 40 | A hurricane in the mid-1970s cause much damage and the fuselage was turned into a superb house-boat by David Drimmer . |
| 41 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 42 | A squadron of the planes will spend the week at their old base at RAF Fairford . |
| 43 | It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory . |
| 44 | This therefore suggests a unity between the fundamentals of the existing structure of company law and the interests of society , as they have been provisionally defined . |
| 45 | The notion of legitimate expectation concerns whether the applicant has a case on the merits , but the claim that such an expectation exists , provided it is not prima facie ludicrous , will give the claimant standing to argue the merits of the claim . |
| 46 | However , the statistics seriously underestimate the incidence of rape , since the majority of women do not report cases to the police , considering that they have faced quite enough distress without taking such a case through the courts . |
| 47 | Before taking a decision on whether to take a case to a Children 's Hearing , the Reporter has to consider the reports from all the appropriate agencies . |
| 48 | It is a case of the outlaws who have become outcasts staying in the outhouse . ’ |
| 49 | Focusing on the ‘ ideological cracks ’ e.g. internal contradictions of the film text , they made a case for a women 's discourse where it was previously thought none could possibly exist . |
| 50 | The costs of even preparing a case for the Commissioners , let alone taking it , would more than nullify any tax relief gained . |
| 51 | This was n't yet a case for the police , least of all for him . |
| 52 | At this stage , Salford Council provided the Campaign with a furnished office which was then equipped with all the technology by companies and members , necessary for the purpose of building a case against the incinerators for presentation to an enquiry . |
| 53 | When you have read a case in the reports or in a case book , do your best to convey this fact by referring to some apposite passage in the judgment or some other relevant detail of the report which will indicate that you have not merely relied on a textbook . |
| 54 | Although there are also other Gaelic names for hemlock , the Biblical reference in Hosea X. 4 uses this name : ( Thus judgment springeth up like a hemlock in the furrows of the field ) . |
| 55 | I think some of the older managers and tenants have been bending his ear a bit about the problems of setting up catering . |
| 56 | So parents tend not to hear about the things that really go on a lot of the time in nearly all schools and they do hear a bit about the things that are a little bit different , so they can get quite a distorted picture of , of what 's going on . |
| 57 | ‘ A lot of casino guys do n't care a bit about the townsfolk . ’ |
| 58 | Sounds a bit of a balls-up . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ We had a bit of a knees-up last night . |
| 60 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |