Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] of [noun pl] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high proportion of pupils gave an answer which showed that they could represent the number to one decimal place : 31 per cent gave the answer 2.3 , seven per cent gave 2.4 and 22 per cent gave 2.3 . |
| 2 | The balance of panel membership was sometimes questioned and there is a need for careful selection of members to ensure an adequate complement of expertise . |
| 3 | The top row of letters shows an example of the early 15th- and 16th-century seriffed faces , which were the model for many later type founders . |
| 4 | The point seems to be that " knowing or believing " are simple words which do not in the ordinary run of things require an explanation . |
| 5 | Although so many of these poems were retrospective , their remarkable range of subjects suggests an imagination intensely alive to the ordinary timeless details of life . |
| 6 | Note that motors with a large number of phases have an advantage here , since a step length is a small proportion of the rotor tooth pitch [ Eqn . |
| 7 | As the years since joining the EC get more numerous , confidence in the proximate accuracy of figures describing an anti-monde must decline . |
| 8 | The walk-in centre is the result of two years ' struggle by an international group of scientists to realise an ideal . |
| 9 | This involves a substantial intercalation of neurons to form an association area between the sensory and motor parts of the elementary brain . |
| 10 | Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat . |
| 11 | The City Code envisages that the full board of directors maintains an active involvement in monitoring the conduct of a take-over offer . |
| 12 | Over and above the nature of the general economic and social developments , the main reason for this is what can be termed the specificity of cultural goods : that is , the fact that ‘ music can never be just a product ( an exchange value ) , even in its rawest commodity form ; the artistic value of records has an unavoidable complicating effect on their production ’ ( Frith 1983a : 10 ) . |
| 13 | Even when an oxytocic agent is not given a small proportion of patients show an increase in plasma oxytocin concentration during the late second or early third stage of labour . |
| 14 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 15 | The Enterprise Centre 's role is to act as a catalyst to encourage further development of live project work so that an increasing number of students get an opportunity to tackle this special combination of project work and contact with industry and to co-ordinate the evaluation of the ‘ Live Projects ’ scheme . |
| 16 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 17 | In Benin in February a national constitutional conference of notables brought an end to the regime of General Mathieu Kérékou and laid plans for a general election next year . |
| 18 | Nor is it always clear whether a given list of topics constitutes an actual plan for a book or not , or whether a given note pertains to our book at all . |
| 19 | Bickerton ( 1973 ) provides detailed analyses using statistical scaling of variables to produce an implicational scale , ranking different speakers ' grammars in such a way that each grammar ( corresponding to a " lect " ) differs from the next by just one rule . |
| 20 | I 'll give you two examples of the other side of Tories doing an Act . |
| 21 | It boasts a wide range of habitats supporting an impressive variety of plants , birds and butterflies . |
| 22 | ‘ Foundationalism ’ means that an external set of phenomena imposes an order on , or serves as a ‘ foundation , for , a given cultural practice . |
| 23 | Thorpe Marsh Reserve was created when quick-witted local naturalists learned of the proposed building of embankments to enclose an extensive ash disposal area . |
| 24 | On March 2 the Albanian Council of Ministers issued an appeal calling on the public to dissociate itself from rioting and looting . |
| 25 | The geometric assembly of components to produce an identifiable unit , such as a gearbox , is thus recorded in a hierarchical file having a structure similar to a bill-of-materials listing ( see Figure 2.25 ) . |