Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb -s] [art] " 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 | ON paper , at least , the depth of a recession seems an inopportune time to seek sponsors for a three-year programme to boost career opportunities for young Welsh speakers and help employers recruit more effectively . |
| 3 | A rating gives a numerical value to some kind of judgement usually assuming equal intervals in the rating scale . |
| 4 | Arguing a case involves the following four stages : |
| 5 | The predicate " exists " in such a case plays no useful role and can be safely axed . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the test of interest for the popular newspapers seems whether such a case has the potential for titillation rather than an outcry at such wickedness . |
| 7 | In percussive drilling , the least sophisticated method , a bit cuts a hole through the rock and compressed air blows out chippings . |
| 8 | Yeah they 're a bit looks a bit slow do n't they ? |
| 9 | The use of such a level avoids the syntactic processor from making incorrect syntactic judgements when dealing with idioms and provides an additional recognition stage . |
| 10 | ‘ Even a mistress has a right to understand her grief . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | To emulate him , they proclaimed , ‘ a runner needs a unique constitution and a unique personality ’ . |
| 13 | A videodisc has the capacity to store both still and moving pictures . |
| 14 | The preparation of a budget provides a measure against which actual performance can be monitored . |
| 15 | A catalyst facilitates a chemical process without being used up or changed itself . |
| 16 | It was an old joke — a teetotaller knows every morning when he wakes up that that 's the best he 's going to feel all day . |
| 17 | A case-study involves the in-depth study of a single example of whatever it is that the sociologist wishes to investigate . |
| 18 | The man knew how close he could approach , then he would turn , drop one shoulder and half-glance behind him , as a mare watches the foal following her . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | According to Regulation 8(2) of these regulations a driver has the overall responsibility to proceed with due regard to the safety of other users of the road subject to the direction of any police constable etc . |
| 23 | By the way , next time a driver blocks an entrance to a property , preventing the people who live there from being able either to get in or out perhaps the driver would like to ask him or herself how they would like it . |
| 24 | When a programmer uses an assembler language , he uses mnemonic instruction names and symbolic addresses . |
| 25 | If a programmer adds the two together , the database will not complain , though the programmer 's boss might . |
| 26 | Accession is the traditional method whereby a non-signatory becomes a party to a treaty . |
| 27 | A MEMBER-OF-PARLIAMENT represents a CONSTITUENCY . |
| 28 | If a course includes an element concerned with older people it is usually from the perspective of geriatric medicine rather than gerontology , with its emphasis upon normal ageing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |