Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a rich medium produces a well bushed out , richly dark plant with thick rootstock , a sand medium produces a tall , delicate-looking plant , with fewer leaves and slender rootstock . |
| 2 | Ideology , whether in the form of religious cant or a friendly greeting creates a location for the individual which she/he fills by recognizing it as their place ( as a servant of God , as the person hailed ) . |
| 3 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 4 | A Scandinavian study uses a randomisation scheme which will probably prevent the group from obtaining a scientifically valuable result . |
| 5 | It is clear from the above that under the new provisions the general principle is that only a private investor has a right of action for a contravention to which s.62 applies . |
| 6 | This was not an offence under the Act because it does not extend to the domestic situation and a club having a private membership enjoys a private or domestic status . |
| 7 | A MEMORABLE occasion deserves a memorable setting . |
| 8 | A solid scrum creates a winning platform . ’ |
| 9 | A solid cabinet houses a pair of 12″ Celestion G12T speakers and , although 2x12 combos are normally quite bulky , Marshall have utilised every inch of space to keep the S80 as compact as possible . |
| 10 | It might be that the traveller after a prolonged deadlock sees a picture of Bali on a magazine cover as he is walking past a newspaper stand , thinks ‘ I must go there ’ , the decision is made , and from then on he never wavers . |
| 11 | The trap is that we assume that a broad market means a less specialised product at a low price . |
| 12 | A hierarchical technique generates a tree whose leaves are labelled with individual instances . |
| 13 | The ‘ kick-point ’ related to the shape of the shaft at the point of impact ; a shaft with a low kick-point shows a greater curvature near the tip than a shaft with a high kick-point . |
| 14 | A low pass carries a narrow road from Kinlochewe to the sea , and ranged along its northern side are the two huge masses of Beinn Eighe and Liathach , together extending in intimidating slopes over a distance of ten miles : Munros both , and among the best . |
| 15 | A normal distribution has a kurtosis measure of 3 , and a leptokurtic distribution occurs when the kurtosis is well over 3 . |
| 16 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
| 17 | hence such a cubic polynomial has a root in Q. The theorem is not of immediate use in checking polynomials of degree 4 or more for irreducibility . |
| 18 | Original marble floors and high arched ceilings remain and a spacious restaurant offers a choice of meals which can also be served on the covered terrace , overlooking the gardens . |
| 19 | The rejection of a loving , caring being by a cruel world becomes a proof of God 's love and a demonstration of its indestructibility . |
| 20 | A tall organisation implies a narrow span of control , and a flat organisation implies a wide span of control |
| 21 | He tries again with a vast seated figure like a Henry Moore , in which a hanging valley forms a kind of lap … |
| 22 | As one would expect , the control of a system as complex as that portrayed in a metabolic chart requires a large number of switches , of several different kinds . |
| 23 | Combining the character candidates across a complete word gives a number of candidate strings . |
| 24 | This is concerned with reflexes which are caused by particular events or things : for , a loud noise elicits a jump . |
| 25 | Dry hop flavour is an interesting application since the use of a liquid extract allows a more accurate and consistent flavour to be produced . |
| 26 | In the latter case , a downward-pointing warhead fires a stream of molten metal at several thousand kilometres an hour to punch a hole in the tank 's vulnerable upper surfaces where the armour is comparatively thin . |
| 27 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 28 | To achieve crosswind landing exactly on the spot without using the engine and in a strange machine offers a strong challenge even to the most experienced pilot . |
| 29 | Interestingly , Egan 's discussion of the concept of a working alliance makes a similar point ( Egan , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | I said look a working woman needs a working man to help support herself and her children . |