Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two moles of CO2 have a mass of 88 grams and n moles a mass of n X 44 grams . |
| 2 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 3 | So it may be that IgE-mediated allergy plays a role in more than 20 per cent of cases , when other types of allergen , besides food , are taken into account . |
| 4 | While this story represents a departure from tradition , it already exists , in fact , to a greater or lesser extent in every well-run American and Japanese corporation . |
| 5 | For example , O supplies a car to P on hire purchase terms and P , before he has finished paying off his instalments , sells the car to a bona fide private purchaser , Q , who is unaware of the hire purchase agreement . |
| 6 | His classification into personal and projected play represents a hierarchy of abstraction ; dramatic activities using oneself as the medium of expression standing at a lower level on the table of abstraction than dramatic activities using media other than oneself . |
| 7 | Nearly all these individuals are fully competent native speakers of British English , so they do not actually require Creole for strictly communicative purposes ; for them , Creole fulfils a number of other roles mostly related to its symbolic significance as a marker of black identity . |
| 8 | Moreover , Allan offers a description of her which seems more explicit than any offered through another mouthpiece . |
| 9 | The technique involves a network of irrigation pipes running from the store to a point on the headland . |
| 10 | In procedural terms , therefore , the life sentence involves a transfer of function : normally it is the judge who determines the sentence ( or at least its upper limit , since earlier release on parole may be possible ) , whereas a life sentence entrusts that function to the executive , who must first ascertain the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge . |
| 11 | The local press announced a ‘ Poly comeback ’ , and when the CNAA reapproved the Polytechnic 's BSc in Mechanical Engineering later in the month it announced — ‘ Poly wins a tribute from CNAA ’ . |
| 12 | Mrs M Brett from Norfolk receives a copy of Ian Orr-Ewing 's Celebration Of Lords And Commons Cricket . |
| 13 | In keeping with a dominant impulse within inter-war English studies , he concludes that " Literature constitutes a body of knowledge to be studied in and for itself without regard to any educational value it may have … [ since ] its being is its own justification . " |
| 14 | By transferring the means of production to state ownership , nationalisation represents a broadening of the scope of economic calculation beyond the limited horizon of private profit . |
| 15 | Even this morning I 've had to sell a first-rate Hockney print for £6,500 , which cost £5,540 seven years ago , which with the cost of money represents a loss of about £5,000 . ’ |
| 16 | The University guarantees a place in University Halls , Student Houses or Flats to all new postgraduates coming to Edinburgh from countries outside the European Community , provided that applicants can fulfil ALL of the following conditions : |
| 17 | The University guarantees a place in University Halls , Student Houses or flats to all new first year undergraduates who live outwith the boundary of the City of Edinburgh , provided that their application form has reached the Student Accommodation Service by 1st September and that UCAS has confirmed their academic place at the University of Edinburgh as UF by the same date . |
| 18 | Before leaving his desk the computer supplies a printout of each location to be visited showing the individual name , job title , man number , depot number , hourly/weekly/monthly paid , age , birth date , service , joining date , marital status , salary or wage , total numbers by payroll and average salary or wage . |
| 19 | It is often claimed that a CU represents a movement towards freer trade . |
| 20 | Each Faculty makes a substantial contribution to the field of adult and continuing education , in which the University offers a range of part-time degree , diploma and postgraduate courses together with a comprehensive programme of short courses . |
| 21 | The University offers a programme of high-level courses in the area of accounting and related studies . |
| 22 | The University offers a programme of high-level training courses in Hotel and Catering Management ( or Hospitality Management as this vocationally important area is increasingly known ) . |
| 23 | If the execution is abortive , the creditor receives a bill from the sheriff 's officer for work done ( £15 to £35 ) , and should insist on a full report about the debtor . |
| 24 | Because the GPC route imposes a stage of processing between the visual analysis and the lexicon , it is necessarily slower in use than the direct lexical route . |
| 25 | Westwood offers an account of how the structures of gender , ethnicity and class fit together for a specific group of women workers . |
| 26 | Each of the other fundamental rights reveals an aspect of the value of private autonomy , whereas , in contrast , a right to enforce a contract involves an assertion of the justice of commandeering state power to curtail economic liberty and restrict autonomy . |
| 27 | The accusation that the adventure story offers an escape for adult readers implies that the escape is into a kind of second childhood or , at the least , suggests a limited expectation of a novel 's purpose . |
| 28 | The North West represents a microcosm of many of the present opportunities and problems for public passenger transport in Great Britain . |
| 29 | * whether the decision involves a modification to previous purchasing patterns , for instance when the usual product purchased has been re.formulated , an apparently attractive new brand introduced , or the purchaser 's usage context for the product has changed . |
| 30 | Roding male flies a circuit at dusk and dawn , with an owlish flight and interrupted wing-beats , uttering two distinct notes , a rather sibilant ‘ twisick ’ and a frog-like croak or grunting growl Not gregarious . |