Example sentences of "[noun sg] of an object " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attention is a holding in consciousness of an object that may be a thing , person , state of mind , a self-experience , another 's opinion , or a mathematical abstraction . |
| 2 | All geometric and textural data are held within a part file that closely represents a dustbin , thus information can not be selectively retrieved ; a piece of an object can only be viewed by displaying the whole part file . |
| 3 | Process modelling allows users to configure lifecycles for objects by defining a number of states , transitions between states and actions upon entry of an object into a state . |
| 4 | Process modelling allows users to configure lifecycles for objects by defining a number of states , transitions between these states , and actions upon entry of an object into a state . |
| 5 | Actions are triggered upon entry of an object into a state . |
| 6 | Simultaneously the Mercure de France published in its October issues the letters of-Cézanne to Emile Bernard , including the letter which contains the passage : ‘ Allow me to repeat what I said to you here : deal with nature in terms of the cylinder , the sphere , the cone , all seen in perspective , so that each side of an object or plane is directed towards a central point . |
| 7 | One way to determine this would be to old an ordinary ruler at arms length and note how many millimetres the width of an object appears to occupy . |
| 8 | For example ( although the painters never worked in such an obvious and theoretical way ) , plan , section and elevation of an object could be laid or drawn over each other , and then adjusted and fused to form a single , legible and highly informative image . |
| 9 | Similarly the desire for closure , usually necessary to the recognition of an object , can lead to illusory assumptions . |
| 10 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 11 | By selective working , though , part of an object such as a cutting edge could be made harder . |
| 12 | First , some part of an object ( or process , etc. ) may be thrown into relief relative to other parts . |
| 13 | One calculation , offered by opponents of Darwin 's theory , is based on the improbability of an object as complex as a living organism arising by chance . |
| 14 | They ca n't tell what bit of an object is nearest to them , so they 're very clumsy when they reach towards things . |
| 15 | The description of an object is not a simple task . |
| 16 | The current development of CAD procedures has so far been directed towards providing a complete geometric description of an object initially , and then moving on to the generation of manufacturing instructions ( see Figure 1.8 ) . |
| 17 | This hierarchical description of an object can be represented by a class structure diagram , as shown below . |
| 18 | The mere presence of an object on museum premises entails some form of associated documentation . |
| 19 | Netbuilder also includes Netlib , a library which stores the object modules and Netmake — a CASE tool which allows a developer to build a shell of an object module . |
| 20 | Much of the expertise of a museum curator or an archaeologist lies in being able to offer a reasonably accurate identification of an object just on the basis of looking at it and handling it . |
| 21 | An inventory should contain sufficient information to enable the unequivocal identification of an object . |
| 22 | It is likely that the passage has been abbreviated : the compilers have preserved the beginning and the end of his discussion of the effect of the alienation of an object bequeathed . |
| 23 | As a narrative paradigm , this diagram represents the exchange of an object ‘ O ’ between two ‘ actants ’ and two topographical sites . |
| 24 | The simplest relationship is the sheer pleasure of immediate consumption of an object which offers no resistance . |
| 25 | However , the true condition and nature of an object can only really be judged by physically checking it . |
| 26 | The nature of an object can not be established through a means of knowledge totally unrelated to it . |
| 27 | Thus Hourcade felt that an artist could convey more clearly the real nature of an object by showing as many aspects of it as possible , and guided by intelligence rather than by his eye , would resort to geometric forms . |
| 28 | Any attribute of an object can be changed without destroying its identity . |
| 29 | It would be of no great help to pronounce the body of an object genuine if the interest , and hence the value , lay in the inscription . |
| 30 | For example , the time taken to name a picture of an object can provide useful information especially when this time can be manipulated by a prior event . |