Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Safety with electricity means never operating anything that has a worn or damaged flex ; never trying to run an appliance from a light socket ; never trying to run several appliances via an adaptor plugged into one socket ; and ensuring that all plugs are wired properly . |
| 2 | Upon election , the Leader shall hold office until death , incapacity or resignation or the completion of an election called under this Article . |
| 3 | They bought a coffee machine at lunchtime , and it was an instant hit with all the passing staff who were called into the department during the course of the day . |
| 4 | More precisely , the infinitive evokes an event , and to , the movement from an instant situated before this event up to the instant at which the event begins . |
| 5 | Thus , economically , the quintessential bourgeois was a ‘ capitalist ’ ( i.e. either the possessor of capital , or the receiver of an income derived from such a source , or a profit-making entrepreneur , or all of these things ) . |
| 6 | The foral institutions , which preserved the status of the peasant , degraded merchants and lawyers into second-class citizens : seen from the towns , rustic democracy appeared an oligarchy rigged by rural notables . |
| 7 | Used for formative purposes , an assessment based on weak evidence could be misleading to the pupil . |
| 8 | Here , I will provide a broad overview of each control , then an assessment based upon this overview ; more detailed commentaries on aspects of the controls may be found elsewhere ( e.g. Heald , 1980 ; Webb , 1980 , on the White Paper controls ) . |
| 9 | A local authority may assess a child 's needs at the same time as it carries out an assessment required under any other statutory provision . |
| 10 | In his view , then , the functionalist approach to inequality is nothing else than an ideology designed to legitimate this same inequality . |
| 11 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 12 | And despite an upbringing based on extreme moderation , if not complete abstinence , I now liked a drink . |
| 13 | ‘ I Tavole del Giudizio : Composizione in sei tempi ’ is an installation composed of eight mirror-topped tables , which for the duration of the exhibition will be rearranged at regular intervals in six different positions , each signifying a different concept : division/multiplication ; dispersion ; eliptical organisation ; self-reflection ; refectory/social life ; absolute/relative . |
| 14 | Employees shared in company profits ( one cashier who earned $7.10 an hour retired after 25 years with $262,000-worth of shares ) ; and Walton made every effort to foster team spirit , with ceaseless pep rallies . |
| 15 | I suppose yoga enthusiasts would find it painless , but for most of us an hour spent in this position was an ordeal . |
| 16 | To show enthusiasm for a glance with them through the pages of old photograph albums , can often give immense pleasure ; and half an hour spent like this can mean more to them than a whole evening of television , for they are warmed by memories of happier days . |
| 17 | By the time we left the Parrot there was only an hour left to closing time . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the textile industry is an easy target for the conservationist because an effluent coloured with waste dye attracts attention , however small and innocuous the amount of colour may be . |
| 19 | The program uses an algorithm based on that of Berry-Rogghe [ 1970 ] , which is described in Appendix B. However , instead of producing a concordance represented as a list of z-scores , it reformats the collocates into a list headed by the lemma being analysed . |
| 20 | An intercommodity spread between two index futures , where the shares in one index are a subset of the shares in the other index , represents a futures contract on the shares that are in one index but not the other . |
| 21 | Spreads involve the difference in the current prices of two futures contracts , and it was shown how an intercommodity spread between two index futures can be used to create a synthetic index future . |
| 22 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 23 | Both men had a history of lawlessness , petty felonies and misdemeanours , but this was to be their first foray into serious and hopefully prosperous crime , an opportunity prompted by pure chance . |
| 24 | Day hospitals usually have generous staffing levels of doctors , nurses and therapists , an ambitious therapeutic programme , at least on paper , and an ethos geared to continuing rehabilitation . |
| 25 | Marketing Boards have been an instrument favoured by most African governments as a means of ensuring that farmers have an outlet for their crops , and that urban consumers pay for basic foodstuffs at a controlled , often subsidized , price . |
| 26 | Mind you , even he had to admit that this ‘ new ’ guitar was really not so new — more an instrument slotted between several others , not exactly copying any of them , but owing a good deal to several . |
| 27 | ( An effect done with economical means , an epoxy-covered foam model of the braking balloons and an aluminium model of the Leonov , doused with liquid explosives . ) |
| 28 | The improvement may well be largely related to an increase in volume leading to an increase in blood volume in the lungs — an effect shown by transthoracic impedance techniques . |
| 29 | At worst the disinfectant is prematurely exhausted , an effect known as organic overload , allowing large numbers of micro-organisms to survive . |
| 30 | An action related to passing-off is trade libel , sometimes referred to a malicious falsehood . |