Example sentences of "[prep] a given [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source of supply in the sea might perhaps shown signs of exhaustion , and the fishermen might have to resort to more distant coasts and to deeper waters , Nature giving a diminishing return to the increased application of capital and labour of a given order of efficiency . |
| 2 | Most often there is one copy of a given plasmid per chromosome , but with the small ones there may be several copies . |
| 3 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 4 | The position with syntax is however different , since it can never be guaranteed that a sufficient quantity of tokens of a given type of construction will ever appear in a piece of spontaneous discourse . |
| 5 | It is important to keep the three elements conceptually distinct , especially when trying to explain the basic nature of a given type of stratification structure . |
| 6 | In one instance a contract was made to sell to one purchaser a quantity of a given type of wine which exactly equalled the seller 's stock of it . |
| 7 | Hence multiple copies of a given fragment of text can be found all around the surface of the disc , the more so if the disc is old and much used . |
| 8 | Thus it is relatively easy to measure the immediate learning effects of a given method of instruction but far harder to try to evaluate the influence of a short course in information retrieval on the information gathering habits of the participants , some years later . |
| 9 | An obvious question arises from this : how do we know whether the particular reformulations of a given piece of research are valid or not ? |
| 10 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
| 11 | Since the purchasing power of a given sum of money depends inversely on the price level , there will be a direct relationship between the price level and the nominal demand for money . |
| 12 | And , in 1972 a ‘ clandestine advertising ’ scandal led to a Parliamentary report on ORTF ‘ abuses ’ : programme-makers had received favours from manufacturers to do ‘ product-placement ’ — the frequent use of a given make of car in the same film , for instance . |
| 13 | There is social investment on projects and services that increase the productivity of a given amount of labour power and therefore the rate of profit . |
| 14 | For this reason both are oriented towards criterion-referenced assessment in which achievement is measured against a given level of performance , rather than simply against the performance of other pupils . |
| 15 | At present no CAD system is configured to provide a means of comparing many alternative schemes against a given set of design parameters . |
| 16 | Also , the scale of the problems tends to be smaller ; for example , there are , typically , far fewer anaphors than phonemes in a sentence , and fewer focused candidate referents for a pronoun than ( in a large-vocabulary application ) candidate words to be considered for a given portion of speech . |
| 17 | In particular , they will not wish to sell longer dated bills , the prices of which rise by a larger amount for a given change in interest rates . |
| 18 | These findings are also in line with figures produced by the Justices ' Clerks ' Society ( 1992 ) which we cited earlier , suggesting that for a given range of offence types , Crown Courts are very much more likely to resort to custody than magistrates courts , and to do so for longer . |
| 19 | Note that for a given level of income , the transactions demand for money would rise if more households were paid fortnightly or monthly rather than weekly . |
| 20 | Figure 3 shows the total demand for money plotted against the rate of interest : L s represents the speculative demand and L t represents the transactions and precautionary demands for a given level of income . |
| 21 | right so if you er draw a make sure you have got at least half a page , right , you are going to be drawing two quite familiar diagrams , right , you er , first of all just draw a normal total product curve , what we are going to do , because we are looking at a fixed level of output , sorry fixed level of capital what we are going to be analysing is the relationships between the total product of labour , the average product of labour , and the marginal product of labour , right , for a given level of capital okay , so the total product curve just tells us what happens to output as we increase the level of our variable factor labour keeping capital fixed at some constant constant level |
| 22 | Alternatively , we may say that for a given level of benefit , the premium will be determined by the risk , or more briefly still , that the premium : benefit ratio is a function of risk . |
| 23 | Minimizing the cost of producing any output for a given level of effort E , subject to the production function , will yield a cost function C ( y , E ) . |
| 24 | Now examine the effect of an increase in T KX for a given level of distortion . |
| 25 | The sign test was used to assess the differences in red cell loss ( using the square root data ) between patients with ulcerative colitis and those with Crohn 's disease for a given level of inflammation . |
| 26 | The numbers of the skeletal elements are usually expressed as proportions of the numbers that would be expected to be present for a given number of prey individuals , which is usually the minimum number of individuals ( MNI ) . |
| 27 | For a given number of information arrivals , there is zero correlation between volatility and volume . |
| 28 | But the overall choice and ordering of themes , particularly those of independent clauses , plays an important part in organizing a text and in providing a point of orientation for a given stretch of language . |
| 29 | The following extract from A Hero from Zero shows how a series of homogeneous themes can provide a point of orientation and a method of development for a given stretch of language . |
| 30 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |