Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for something that you do n't expect to find is a demoralizing task , and succeeding in finding nothing offers only a dreary satisfaction . |
| 2 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 3 | In Burkina Faso , for example , observations between 1955 and 1974 have shown that degraded land and active sand have increased from 181 to 390 ha and from 56 to 150 ha respectively in the Menegon-Bidi area , which represents only a small proportion of the total 3000 ha of lost arable land in the Burkina Sahel and which is equivalent to the loss of 800 t of millet or 4500 t of straw ( Mainguet 1986 ) . |
| 4 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 5 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 6 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |
| 7 | We take it to extremes and wilfully avoid anything which has even a faint tinge of the ‘ essential ’ viewing of any tourist with cultural pretensions . |
| 8 | The park is part of a large complex which has just a single access onto the busy main road . |
| 9 | Main Picture : The grand piano lends a dramatic air to the dining room which has quite a modern look with its black chairs and stark glass table . |
| 10 | That is to say , the order of a language is determined in some domain that transcends the language , rather than within the language itself , which has only a symbolic relationship with the domain in question . |
| 11 | A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction but remains chemically unchanged at the end of that reaction . |
| 12 | The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities , scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets . |
| 13 | However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range . |
| 14 | Lord Oliver described proximity as ‘ no more than a label which embraces not a definable concept but merely a description of circumstances from which , pragmatically , the courts conclude that a duty of care exists ’ . |
| 15 | The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book . |
| 16 | Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel . |
| 17 | For this reason , adultery should be seen for what it has become , an act of sexual conduct which takes on a symbolic character if offensive to the other partner . |
| 18 | It can perform flow injection analysis ( FIA ) and segmented continuous flow analysis ( SFA ) independently or can combine the techniques on a single test allowing automatic sample pretreatment such as dilution , concentration and/or filtration on-line , The Super Cartridge is a two part heater consisting of a spool of polymeric tubing which droops over a cone-shaped heater . |
| 19 | Click on Define , which opens up a fuller version of the Style box , and then click on Merge . |
| 20 | Trade unions play a part within these associations but , since their function is nearly entirely within the formal sector — which employs only a small proportion of the population — they play a relatively minor role . |
| 21 | Recombinant schistosome glutathione-S-transferase , which confers only a partial resistance to infection , induces a potent anti-fecundity immune response that dramatically reduces the number and viability of eggs produced by female parasites , and so reduces the risk of transmission and the pathology associated with infection ( A. Capron , Pasteur-Lille ) . |
| 22 | What would happen if there was a revolution and the monarchy was overthrown , Parliament dissolved and all its members imprisoned , and new elections held to a Constitutional Convention which draws up a new constitution with a presidential system of government and a single chamber assembly ? |
| 23 | If military training can incorporate an element of preparation for the emotional experience associated with active service abroad which prevents even a small number of psychiatric casualties , it may well also help to maintain the morale of others and be cost-effective in these terms . |
| 24 | I think that whether as er Mr submits and is a guideline case and to be adapted to changing conditions or whether it is a case which lays down a bounding rate , that it is a case which I should follow and that the reasoning leading to the adoption of two percent as the appropriate percentage to be applied still applies today , thus the calculation is one hundred and thirty five thousand pounds times two percent , is two thousand , seven hundred pounds times seventeen , is forty five thousand , nine hundred pounds , to this there is to be added a cost of conversion , thirty two thousand , four hundred and seventy two pounds less the enhancement in value thereby created of twelve thousand , five hundred pounds that is a figure of nineteen thousand , nine hundred and seventy two . |
| 25 | Trying out various ideas they eventually settled on the use of a Ring Modulator , which sets up a low frequency hum breaking up speech patterns into juddery , intermittent tones . |
| 26 | At the other end of the rod is a transducer which sets up a controlled vibration within the sapphire . |
| 27 | The Government Actuary 's Department prepared a document in 1980 which sets out a suggested basis for making the calculation and this was supplemented ten years later by recommendations from a committee of industrial tribunal chairmen . |
| 28 | I commend the book God is Green by Ian Bradley which sets out a useful outline of Christian thought on this subject . |
| 29 | Inevitably they argue that life stress events and family demographic variables are also important , and it may be the failure of much research to take these variables into account ( and probably the problems of doing so ) which explains why a stronger relationship between early attachment and behaviour and later adjustment is not found . |
| 30 | They were friend , social worker and spiritual adviser to the deaf community and inevitably became champions of its causes , which explains how a deaf missioner became the founder of the BDDA and other missioners played leading parts in its history . |