Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unlike magnetic poles attract each other ’ , ‘ An acid added to a base yields a salt plus water ’ and similar laws can easily be construed as falsifiable . |
| 2 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 3 | In percussive drilling , the least sophisticated method , a bit cuts a hole through the rock and compressed air blows out chippings . |
| 4 | Yeah they 're a bit looks a bit slow do n't they ? |
| 5 | ‘ Even a mistress has a right to understand her grief . ’ |
| 6 | However , Sukenick has been equally consistent in rejecting the view that such a direction marks a narcissistic introversion of fiction , arguing instead that he has engaged more directly with his culture . |
| 7 | To emulate him , they proclaimed , ‘ a runner needs a unique constitution and a unique personality ’ . |
| 8 | The preparation of a budget provides a measure against which actual performance can be monitored . |
| 9 | A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself . |
| 10 | ‘ In the same way as a working person and a taxpayer makes a specific contribution to the upkeep of the national health system , so could a specific premium or tax be levied to support publicly funded legal services , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 12 | The junction at Newton is to revert to double track , airline style black boxes are being installed in trains to pinpoint the cause of accidents , and a new electronic safeguard system which will literally stop trains in their tracks if a driver makes a mistake is being tested . |
| 13 | Accession is the traditional method whereby a non-signatory becomes a party to a treaty . |
| 14 | A MEMBER-OF-PARLIAMENT represents a CONSTITUENCY . |
| 15 | I suggest that the typical history of a concept , whether it be ‘ chemical element ’ , ‘ atom ’ , ‘ the unconscious ’ , or whatever , involves the initial emergence of the concept as a vague idea , followed by its gradual clarification as the theory in which it plays a part takes a more precise and coherent form . |
| 16 | Each element in the communication processes of which media are a part has a history of its own : the media organizations , the changing technology , the contents , the audiences . |
| 17 | Formally , out of context , a sentence has a kind of time-free and place-free meaning . |
| 18 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 19 | Rather the critic frequently seems to adopt an inflated posture , where his or her negotiation of a text becomes a journey of discovery marked out with a rhetoric of almost heroic endeavour . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style . |
| 21 | Such a claim would clearly be limited to the grammatical aspect of style , and even here , to say that a text has a " neutral style " is to mislead : the choice of expressing one 's sense in elemental , disconnected sentences has its stylistic value as much as any other choice ( see 7.4.2 . ) . |
| 22 | The formation of new lobes is only one part of the story , for as soon as a distributary abandons a lobe , which is thus deprived of its sediment supply , marine erosion can set in . |
| 23 | Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are the two dudes whose off-the-wall cable television show broadcast from a basement attracts a cult teenage following . |
| 24 | The new armour is heavy , and a Challenger weighs a massive 60 tonnes . |
| 25 | Where a university administers a number of special subject or departmental collections physically separate from the main library , the tendency to have separate departmental funding and separate responsibility for selection is usually more pronounced . |
| 26 | You see a university has a wide spread of expertise and facilities , which is well beyond the finance of a small company , and even sometimes a larger company , especially when the expertise or facility required is out of the ordinary . |
| 27 | A University needs a good and well-deserved reputation . |
| 28 | To break a pasture makes a man ; to make a pasture breaks a man . |
| 29 | Good grass requires great care and understanding , as described above , and one should never forget the adage : ‘ To make a pasture breaks a man . ’ |
| 30 | To break a pasture makes a man ; to make a pasture breaks a man . |