Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [prep] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In materials such as polyethylene , however , Keller finds that the long chains are arranged in quite a different sort of way . |
| 2 | Autoradiographs of bleomycin cleavage were scanned with either a Joyce Loebl Chromoscan III or a Hoefer GS300 microdensitometer . |
| 3 | In 1907 local cooperative branches were petitioned to forward a resolution to congress in support of the women 's franchise . |
| 4 | Owain Williams led a Bridgend drive from a line-out and when Newport were penalised for off-side a swiftly-taken tapped penalty and deft passing gave Gareth Thomas the space to round his man and score wide out . |
| 5 | The tape was driven by either an electric or clockwork motor and the writing head was supplied with ink from a reservoir by siphon action , as the tape was being driven . |
| 6 | Early in September the four Thomas brothers were told to make ready for the journey home , where Ernest had to re-sit for his Teacher 's Certificate , and Edward was left with scarcely a month to reassure Helen of his faithfulness and to make his final preparations before beginning his historical studies with Owen M. Edwards . |
| 7 | The seizure of Oslo was delayed by only a few hours , just long enough for the king , his ministers and most of parliament — the collective personification of constitutional legitimacy — to evade capture . |
| 8 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 9 | A long-standing illness , disability or infirmity was reported by almost a quarter . |
| 10 | Clerical and administrative backup were provided at only a modest level . |
| 11 | The vast majority of series involve two kinds of contrast : one type is found in only a limited number of lexical pairs ; the other type recurs much more freely . |
| 12 | One difference this time was that each of the parents was accompanied by either a senior or a junior Counsel . |
| 13 | Today , no reputable historian or biblical scholar would deny that the earliest of the Gospels was composed at least a generation after the events it describes . |
| 14 | But the test was sat by only a handful of pupils because of a boycott by teaching unions . |
| 15 | Greater awareness and/or knowledge of users or communities was mentioned by nearly a fifth of all authorities , in various ways , e.g. : |
| 16 | The cube was described by nearly a third of the pupils in the sample as a " square " . |
| 17 | Within a few months many assurances were broken ; there were wistful , unfulfilled hopes of James Edward Stuart landing and asserting himself as King James VII ; and in the House of Lords an attempt by Scottish members to repeal the Act was defeated by only a small majority . |
| 18 | Television 's failure to publicize the unemployment issue was matched by only a small decline in public concern about the issue while enormous public interest in health , education and social services preceded television 's switch towards those issues . |
| 19 | Not too long ago , property ownership was limited to just a minority — but today nearly two thirds of people in England and Wales live in their own homes , more than in many other countries . |
| 20 | Kits are customised with either an EISA board , an AT board or software only . |
| 21 | The snag to this is that although a pan-head can rotate through a full circle , your hips are limited to about a quarter of this movement . |
| 22 | Many factories are working at only a fraction of capacity . |
| 23 | While the latter seems the most likely cause in many blends where specific interactions have been identified , miscible blends can also be obtained when certain statistical copolymers are mixed with either a homopolymer , or another copolymer , in which no such interactions have been located . |
| 24 | Even if an establishment is suffering from only a few of the above problems , the cost penalties can remain extremely high . |
| 25 | A common response to the PNP messages was to convert at least a part of the room into workbays which were generally , though not invariably , dedicated to specific areas of the curriculum . |
| 26 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 27 | It is astonishing how many cultural vanguardists actually seem to welcome a situation where musical tastes are defined by either a handful of multinationals on the one hand or a relatively tight cabal of university-educated journalists on the other . |
| 28 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 29 | This increase in large group studies is associated with about a 50% fall in articles by one to three authors ( data not shown ) . |
| 30 | The speaker who complained at the burden on small businesses was clapped by just a handful . |