Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [art] [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If a dolphin can out-manoeuvre or outswim a shark it will do so … . if the dolphins can not take evasive action for some good reason , such as that a birth is about to take place , they will attack a shark . |
| 2 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 3 | And yet the feeling of departure is still here for although the love is strong in the face of illness or old age , the bearer of that love must inevitably leave the poet when he dies . |
| 4 | In deciding the scope of a " fair comment " plea and the degree of interpretative sophistication to bring to bear on the question of whether a passage is " comment " or " fact " , the court should have regard to the constitutional importance of the " fair comment " defence as a protection for freedom of expression . |
| 5 | These studies independently suggested that , irrespective of whether a company is more or less integrated in structure , different levels of the organization have distinct roles in investment decision-making . |
| 6 | In the end , the question of whether a function is a public one is a political question which may not always be answered in the same way . |
| 7 | Irrespective of whether a hotel is small , medium or large the basic work of the reception office is the same , selling accommodation , receiving and welcoming guests , maintaining accounting and other records , liaison with all other departments within the hotel and integrating all activities relating to the service and comfort of the guests . |
| 8 | The determination of whether a fabric is grain- or mud-supported otherwise takes considerable experience to determine from thin sections , which are essentially two-dimensional . |
| 9 | It appears to be an inescapable fact that regardless of whether a nation is developing , developed or experiencing economic decline , the indigenous population will experience differing degrees of economic prosperity depending on their particular location in the economy . |
| 10 | There are particular difficulties on the question of whether a covenant is purely personal or runs with the land where the obligation in question , whether on the part of the lessor , lessee , or third party guarantor , involves the payment of money other than rent . |
| 11 | That I am amused by such lines as " Noah/ good place to eat " ; " Doughnut/ask me silly questions " or " Theresa/fly in my soup " ( Wales , 1990 ) raises the important question , of course , here as elsewhere in the book , and equally evaded by Chiaro as by Nash , of whether a joke is still a joke if the listener fails to appreciate it , or if there is no reader- response ; is the perlocutionary effect , in other words , part of its definition ? |
| 12 | Those who do kick more do that because they ca n't run , and those who run will do that irrespective of whether the try is worth three , four or five points ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ There is a recognition that the climate or culture of an organisation is a strong determinant of whether the organisation is going to be successful . |
| 14 | Thus , the choice of a pronoun in language production ( and also a comprehender 's judgement of whether the pronoun is appropriate ) depends not simply on a representation of the object in a mental model , but on how that object would be linguistically labelled . |
| 15 | But besides the inconvenience to the long-suffering paying customer — and Liverpool 's have suffered more than any from TV whim — it begs the question of whether the tail is wagging the dog . |
| 16 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 17 | This ambiguity does not greatly alter our conclusions regarding airburst altitude : once an object has spread to , say , twice its initial radius , its further spreading happens so quickly that an ‘ explosion altitude ’ is defined to within a few kilometres , regardless of whether the explosion is taken to occur then or when the object has spread to 5–10 times its initial radius . |
| 18 | In keeping with the analogy , Campbell holds that the variations are ‘ blind ’ — that we come up with a particular hypothesis is not determined by our current experience , is independent of whether the hypothesis is in fact going to prove true or successful , and is not a correction of previous unsuccessful hypotheses . |
| 19 | THE ministerial meeting of the Group of 24 industrial market economies in Brussels today will provide the first test of whether the West is ready to rise to the occasion in Eastern Europe . |
| 20 | ‘ Staff are selected on the basis of whether the course is directly relevant and how much practical use can be made of the training ’ … |
| 21 | It may be committed where sexual intercourse takes place between a man and his daughter , sister , or half-sister , mother or grand-daughter irrespective of whether the relationship is traced through ‘ lawful wedlock , ’ and irrespective of whether consent is present . |
| 22 | Well I was trying to stick with the size as an expression of whether the concept is one that should be pursued , and whether that influences the pursuing of the concept , can we can we leave the , the number of settlements till , till later on ? |
| 23 | A qualitative analysis of the various subtests can be used to identify specific difficulties with grammar and as an indication of whether the child is progressing in the same way as most normal children , or whether there are signs of deviant patterns . |
| 24 | However , in practice , because of the difficulties associated with assessing objective benefit already mentioned , the test is diluted to one of whether the transaction is capable of benefiting the company , thus adding little of substance to the subjective test . |
| 25 | Working for patients gives the assurance that ‘ the costs of emergency services and those requiring immediate admission to hospital can be met for every patient who needs them , irrespective of whether the patient is resident in a district which has a contract with the hospital ’ ( DoH , 1989a , para.4. 18 ) . |
| 26 | Western moral thought has also been concerned with the related question of whether the fetus is a person , with all the attendant rights of a human being . |
| 27 | In contrast , the occupied volume will alter because of the changing amplitude of thermal vibrations in the chains and , to the first approximation , will be a linear function of temperature irrespective of whether the polymer is in the liquid or glassy state . |
| 28 | The dangers of institutions listening too much to special-interest pleading are self-evident ; a badly-presented contribution from a visiting speaker can damage the image of a whole industry ; hijacking of governors ' meetings by self-important and opinionated individuals is an alienating experience , irrespective of whether the offender is an educationalist or an industrialist . |
| 29 | One of the issues to be resolved between the vendor and purchaser is the question of whether the purchaser is willing to take over either of the debtors or creditors of the business or whether one or both of these will remain with the vendor after completion of the sale . |
| 30 | This appears to be the case regardless of whether the innovation is evaluated by the wider urban community as being of high or of low status . |