Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [noun] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 2 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 3 | For example , if a stepping motor is used to drive the carriage of a teletype then the system must come to rest for the printing of each letter . |
| 4 | By solving standard problems , performing standard experiments and eventually by doing a piece of research under a supervisor already a skilled practitioner within the paradigm , an aspiring scientist becomes acquainted with the methods , the techniques and the standards of that paradigm . |
| 5 | That wound had been inflicted with an instrument with a blade perhaps an inch wide . |
| 6 | The criteria for assessment of a return i.e. the balance sheet , could only be results . |
| 7 | It 's just been a bit of a surge once a month . |
| 8 | This may seem like an impossible demand to make on someone who has smoked 20–60 cigarettes a day , but psychologically it works better for most people than attempting the ‘ slowly does it ’ campaign of a cigarette less every day . |
| 9 | They escaped the scene of a massacre just a week ago , and have used the time since to come to terms with their ordeal . |
| 10 | Charming lounge bar in a house once the home of Christopher North . |
| 11 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 12 | For he can see in the X-ray picture of a chest only the shadows of the heart and ribs , with a few spidery blotches between them . |
| 13 | She stood back and peeled off the shirt with a nonchalance only a trifle marred when a button caught in her hair . |
| 14 | This was quite an achievement for an organisation only a few months old . |
| 15 | CARPET fitter Dennis Stoller was facing ruin last night after a blunder over a £9.41 cheque . |
| 16 | A quarter of a century ago the news broke that scientists had come near to taming the hydrogen bomb and turning fusion power into a source of energy for power stations . |
| 17 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 18 | He saw that if an electron could occupy any orbit round a nucleus then a spiralling collapse was inevitable . |
| 19 | In no time at all we were standing on a huge patch of snow at the summit of a mountain only a few feet short of a Munro . |
| 20 | John Nicholson records the following tale of a site only a few miles from Willy Howe : |
| 21 | These shimmering fables , in which an ageing heroine , a ‘ sweet Shura ’ or a Zhenechka , guards her faded mementos and sharp , unfinished memories in defiance of history , help us to understand , perhaps , the drive behind the current , terrifyingly fearless race towards 19th-century-style capitalism : that it is not only a hunger for consumer goods , but a kind of nostalgia for a glamour all the more potent because few now remember it . |
| 22 | Andrew married Chrissie K. , daughter of a shoemaker also a compositor , while Katie married an electrical engineer , son of an engineer . |
| 23 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |
| 24 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 25 | Thus the transfer of an asset to a charity e.g. a work of art , will not qualify ( although there are other ways for a charity to obtain tax relief on the gift of an asset ) . |
| 26 | Our hero then has to cope not only with a lively two year old but also with his burgeoning infatuation for a woman quite a few rungs above him on the social ladder . |
| 27 | If this figure applied to the county as a whole then the criticisms which were used to attack progressive methods were quite unjustified ; far too few schools had embraced Plowden for them to be having the catastrophic influence which their detractors attributed to them . |
| 28 | If the individual is in fact acting on behalf of the company as an employee then the principle of vicarious liability would mean that the company ( as potentially the wealthier party ) might make a more attractive defendant from the plaintiff 's point of view . |
| 29 | Since there is an intelligent system at work in each person it follows that if discomfort or dysfunction is necessary in order to maintain harmony within the system as a whole then the disease will manifest in the least important parts possible thus preserving the higher functions of the person for as long as possible . |
| 30 | The new work also involved the construction of a road over a quarter of a mile long but no unexpected difficulties were experienced , either with this or the realigned route of the railway . |