Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] figure " in BNC.

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1 ( ‘ Unclear differentiation between figure and ground makes [ a ] picture hard to read ’ ( ibid .
2 She studied there for three years with Frederick Brown and Henry Tonks [ qq.v. ] , winning a certificate for figure drawing ( 1896–7 ) and the Melvill Nettleship prize for figure composition ( 1897–8 ) .
3 Another interesting network that totally rejects signals of a certain frequency is the L-C-R bridged-T of figure 8.9(b) .
4 The shunt aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(b) and application of Kirchhoff 's current law to this aspect gives or where I is the phasor representing series current in the lead or return and V the phasor representing potential difference between them , both at distance x along the line .
5 The series aspect of any element is illustrated in the blow-up of figure 9.16(c) and application of Kirchhoff 's voltage law to this aspect gives or This time note that it has been possible to neglect the change in the current phasor I over the infinitesimal element as it only leads to terms that are second order in smallness .
6 A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking .
7 The current work is concerned with the implementation of the dynamic aspects shown in Figure 3 and the static aspects of Figure 4 .
8 The focal points of the diagram are now arranged down the left-hand side of Figure 7.2 below .
9 This is the step depicted on the right-hand side of Figure 1 .
10 Now consider the right-hand side of figure 6.2 .
11 When this happens , we can convert the search of Figure 9a into another simpler search as follows :
12 Ford set out to see this cynosure and found Her so wrapped and swaddled in lace robes and veiling that he could see no trace of figure or countenance .
13 Further addition of suitable capacitance in parallel with resistance R of figure 10.11(b) , also as suggested in section 10.5 , reduces the closure in the Bode plot to well below 6 dB per octave and thereby assures stability .
14 Ron Tiner takes you step-by-step through the methods behind figure drawing from the imagination .
15 Ron Tiner takes you step-by-step through the methods behind figure drawing from the imagination .
16 ( If we compare this figure with Figure 10.1 , we must remember that the picture before 1988 was an average of more or less varied individual curricula , whereas the picture after 1988 is , at least in its general outlines , the same for every child . )
17 Figure 7.5 shows the differences in P(A) for the films that were used in this study , a comparison of this figure with Figure 7.1 suggests that although the total amount of information in a stimulus does play an important role in memory it is clearly not sufficient to explain the recognition results .
18 Try the experiment in Figure 4 .
19 With respect to the distant stars the major axis of the orbit moves in the prograde direction at the rate of 574 seconds of arc ( ′ ) per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 .
20 But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 .
21 Both these methods leave very characteristic helical seams which can be seen on examples of wires made by the two methods in Figure 8.6a and b , taken from genuine antiquities .
22 In one of their experiments they first find the region of the visual field that causes electrical activity to be recorded through an electrode placed in a particular patch of neocortex , and then they map the receptive field for a single cell , as illustrated for a retinal ganglion cell in Figure 4 .
23 For example , the extract in Figure 14.3 instructs the user to apply various preservation techniques ( in 641.41641.47 ) to various meats and allied foods ( in 641.49 ) .
24 The images in Figure 1 were taken from sections of a movie loop with a total of 912 frames , the stills have been selected to illustrate the phases of the migrating motor complex .
25 Proteins sequences were compared with the Oct-11 protein from Figure 1 .
26 It is on this last issue that the third , and the most popular , definition of deindustrialization focuses : the absolute decline in manufacturing employment , Figure 2.3 plots the data from Figure 2.2 in absolute rather than relative terms .
27 A small extract from the hierarchy is shown here so that one can see the path from the root of the hierarchy to each of the words in Figure 6
28 The three anchors are the scorpion from Figure 5 , the insect again ( we have yet another " rotation about " the insect ) , and the rather nondescript biomorph at the top .
29 Plot the two variables in figure 10.2 the other way round from the plot in figure 10.3 , as if one wanted to predict the mortality rate from the chronic sickness rate .
30 Consider two bodies in orbit around each other , such as M and m in Figure 6.2 ( a ) .
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