Example sentences of "each [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 First year pruning will take each stem of a bush rose down to no more than 3–4 inches ( 8–10cm ) , cutting where possible to suitable outward-pointing buds .
2 Join the highest point of each strip with a chalk line to form a curve .
3 Raoult 's law is a useful starting point and defines an ideal solution as one in which the activity of each component in a mixture a i is equal to its mole fraction x i .
4 whether they 're correctly or incorrectly go through it , each each bit at a time , show me how you 're checking it .
5 each bit at a time .
6 This second point suggests that the interpretation of the two utterances is bound together in the sense that they are each part of a text which is , as a whole , consistent with the principle of relevance .
7 A crystal grows , to be sure , but each part of a crystal is simply a repetition of every other part ; the same monotonous pattern of atoms , repeated over and over .
8 Not only do you have to complete lines of blocks , without leaving gaps but if you can make the numbers , which are displayed on each part of a block , add up to the target figure you get a bonus and a bomb .
9 A new report claims that twelve people die each hour as a result of smoking , at a cost to hospitals of four hundred and thirty-seven million pounds .
10 The placing of each housewife in a satisfaction category was done by the interviewer-researcher , on the basis of the overall interview response ; further details for the methodologically curious are given in Appendix I.
11 Whether or not Woolwich can claim to be awarded that interest depends on whether it had a cause of action to recover each payment as a debt due it on the date when it was made .
12 Not a conventional time-piece , this clock has a second hand only , recording each segment of a minute with solid , definite clicks .
13 The molecule can now be placed on the lattice , segment by segment , bearing in mind the restrictions imposed , viz. the connectivity of the segments , which requires the placing of each segment in a cell adjoining the preceding one .
14 Thus each level of a hierarchy directs the action of those ‘ lower down ’ , ultimate authority resides with those at the ‘ top ’ , and at each level those involved carry out more narrowly defined tasks with less and less autonomy .
15 The diagram should be produced by writing each function on a card , the cards are then arranged to meet the criteria .
16 The client is required to rate their anxiety on the programme chart after each trial on a scale of 1–100 , where 1 is no anxiety and 100 is maximum anxiety .
17 if the sentences are too long to manage , first record the sentences phrase by phrase , i.e. : record the dialogue sentence by sentence with a pause long enough for you to mimic , then having LH repeat the sentence , i.e. : record the first phrase or word of each sentence with a pause long enough for you to produce the whole sentence ( i.e. with cue/prompt ) .
18 The processing stages for each reading of each sentence in a text were as follows .
19 Somewhat in contrast to these findings about Thatcher and Kinnock , the visibility of all ‘ other ’ Conservative and Labour politicians ( taken in each case as a collective , unspecified ‘ other ’ ) became more predictable as the election approached .
20 A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography .
21 Here the ‘ metacharacters ’ show where each instance of a Book-title starts and ends .
22 Each instance of a context within a document has , as we have seen , an associated context-name , and the mark-up of the instance takes the form :
23 Systematic mutation of each base in a double met box operator also yields consistent results ( T. McNally , personal communication ) .
24 Burns topped-and-tailed each episode with a monologue , and relished making asides to camera .
25 As she returned , carefully drying each piece with a towel , she answered Judith 's question .
26 Place each mackerel in a parcel of foil with the orange juice , ginger and black pepper .
27 The most convenient manual format for recording terms is to write each term on a card , and to note underneath any comments about the term that are to feature in the thesaurus or list of subject headings .
28 The French government is represented in each department by a prefect .
29 The special feature of the two Unidroit Conventions is that they each deal with a transaction involving two distinct contracts .
30 Another advantage of small chips with few address lines is that each cell of a chip only stores a very crude fragment of knowledge about the image on the retina .
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