Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb -s] " in BNC.

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1 That stereotype speaks less for women 's liberation than a society which treats children as a disruptive influence , a social nuisance .
2 A proportionate tax distributes these burdens as a ratio of income : each taxpayer contributes the same proportion of income in tax .
3 This procedure is unusual in that Genette devotes far more attention to Proust than other narratological studies have to actual texts , and it is also unusual in that Proust 's novel is an infinitely more complex work than those which narrative theories have commonly analyzed : with Boccaccio 's Decameron , Todorov was taking relatively simple specimens as points of reference for his narratological analyses .
4 What remains possible , however , is that differentiation occurs alongside the associative processes .
5 The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation .
6 Neither category contains meaning any longer , since we do n't hear anything unfiltered by the business or the media .
7 One such difference is that whereas thermometer readings are caused by the temperatures they signify ( that 's what correlates them ) , with bees and honey it 's the other way round : what correlates them is the fact , not that honey makes bees , but that bees make honey — the sign causes what it signifies .
8 Which steel mills are linked with each tinplate works ?
9 The difficulty many pupils experience with the scale illustrated below is that each division represents 0.2 of a centimetre and not 0.1 .
10 These branch in their upper parts , and each division bears a small , round green flower head with white stamens .
11 Each division controls the operations of a fairly self-contained part of the organization 's activities ( for example , a particular product line , or a geographical area ) .
12 So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight .
13 Each division has its own editorial , production , and marketing sales staff .
14 Yes , each division has erm , .
15 However it is clear that the three divisions prioritize different spheres of social relations and will have different effects … we suggest that each division exists within the context of the others …
16 Each variety has its own different characteristics — a wine may be made from a single type or , as in the case of claret , a careful blend of two or three .
17 Zuckerman Unbound ( 1981 ) reaches its climax at one of Roth 's frequent funerals — in this case , that of Zuckerman 's father — after which Henry charges Nathan with killing their parent by writing ‘ that book ’ , the liberated Carnovsky , and with believing like the bastard he is that fiction does n't have consequences .
18 I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century .
19 In my view , that provision lends support to the view that a receiver appointed over the property of an unregistered company may be regarded as an administrative receiver within the meaning of the Act of 1986 .
20 I recognise that that provision has limited payments to my hon. Friend 's constituents , but it is no longer limiting payments to doctors because , as of April of this year , it no longer applies .
21 Means that provision has to be .
22 The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right .
23 That division creates authority which I have defined as the right to control resources ( money , people , materials , information , energy ) .
24 has the time in that division has to put in
25 That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual .
26 Each squadron consists or around 100 youngsters who are divided into four separate companies which , at the beginning and end of each session , muster in a large hall above the stables .
27 That metronidazole has its effect at this late stage of NSAID enteropathy is further supported by the findings that small intestinal permeability is not significantly affected by the treatment .
28 However , that money does n't simply go into the retailer 's own pocket !
29 For quite a long time the prevailing view among economists had been that money does not affect the relative prices of commodities , but that it does determine the overall price level .
30 More realistically , however , we have to allow that money does enter and leave the system so far described .
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