Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its critics claim that any assessment based on arbitrary demographic characteristics rules out a substantial number of people who would have been accepted on the basis of their individual performance , and is therefore unfair to them . |
| 2 | A woman bent with a bundle of vegetables passes along a stony path . |
| 3 | The massive changes brought about by the ending of the cold war and by the collapse of state mechanism in some Eastern European countries opens up a significant opportunity to undertake work in the very near future . |
| 4 | A concentration on rights and obligations provides only a narrow perspective that ignores the role of international regulation in development , the equitable allocation of resources , and the need for cooperation and negotiation between States . |
| 5 | Contrary to one popular view , it is not the case that at the Kalmar plant each group of workers builds up a complete car from a box of component parts . |
| 6 | Three to five years seems quite a long way forward in the current uncertain climate . |
| 7 | ONE in four British men have had ten or more sexual partners — yet a major survey reveals that Aids poses only a small threat to them . |
| 8 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 9 | Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings . |
| 10 | The honours degree in Housing Studies provides both a broad-based education in the social sciences and intensive preparation for a professional career in housing . |
| 11 | Sequential processing of data files makes up a large proportion of data processing . |
| 12 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 13 | In terms of findings , Woodward 's 60 per cent cognate score for American and French Sign Languages represents quite a low degree of similarity over what one would expect from any two unrelated sign languages , and this suggests that ASL and French Sign Language are not very closely related . |
| 14 | The ability to build large glass display cabinets without frames opens up a new world of design possibilities . |
| 15 | However , the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view . |
| 16 | He calls , rightly , for the exposure and elimination of such idolatry and in his final chapters shows how a new science , recognising its own metaphorical nature and its own limitations , can provide more meaning and significance to human likes than the old physics did . |
| 17 | To become a ‘ presence ’ for others opens up a new dimension of being , and at the same time we know the joy of God 's presence in our lives . |
| 18 | Interaction between arpeggios and scales makes up a big part of my personal style , and I 've included examples #5 and #6 to show a favourite approach of mine . |
| 19 | Given the challenge to this claim by those who label the country ‘ totalitarian ’ , the state of the prisons takes on a special significance . |
| 20 | The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination . |