Example sentences of "a fixed [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the oil company regards it as a fixed installation for which a safety case will have to be prepared under the new regulations administered by the Health and Safety Executive , it has taken the added precaution of having the hull constructed in compliance with rules issued by Lloyds Register of Shipping . |
| 2 | In 1863 , Andrews studied the relationship between the pressure and the volume of a fixed mass of carbon dioxide at different temperatures . |
| 3 | This pool of employees is not a fixed stable of designated experts . |
| 4 | Within media studies , on the other hand , the temptation is to see a pre-given social identity of race , class , gender limiting the possibilities of infinite variety , so that readings are not so much ‘ produced ’ in particular settings as assumed to be the product of a fixed exchange between the reader 's social position and the text . |
| 5 | The EC duns members for a fixed share of their VAT receipts . |
| 6 | The report also contends that any attempt by the government to establish a fixed budget for the nation 's total health care spending also would run foul of the Fifth Amendment . |
| 7 | The usual procedure adopted is to terminate with a fixed resistance in place of or . |
| 8 | Er say a fixed distance of a hundred and twenty miles . |
| 9 | Spatial frequency is less intuitively obvious but is related to the number of times the display cycles from light to dark to light again as you go a fixed distance in a single direction across the display . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it is making the surprise 33MHz Model 20 Sparcstation 10 a fixed part of the line . |
| 11 | A fixed part of the Order Paper and a fixed time was first set aside for questions in 1869 . |
| 12 | RSPB chief executive Barbara Young , says that the Government now has a fixed deadline for action and must lay the foundations for lasting reform . |
| 13 | Given a fixed overlap between these two sub-populations the criterion of sinistrality can vary . |
| 14 | If you know from experience that you are the over-anxious type you must take yourself firmly in hand and allot a fixed ration of time for revision , the rest of the day being spent in healthy exercise . |
| 15 | Readers will be familiar with the definition of a fixed asset as an asset intended for use on a continuing basis in the reporting entity 's activities . |
| 16 | In the chapter we described the profit or loss arising on the disposal of a fixed asset as a paper profit or loss , explain how this profit differs from that arising on the sale of stock . |
| 17 | In Figure 9.6 the grid lines form an imaginary network of longitude and latitude at a fixed altitude in a planet 's atmosphere , the grid lines rotating with the planet . |
| 18 | The maximum grant is £270 , and you will have to pay a fixed contribution towards the cost , up to a maximum of £15 . |
| 19 | Is that why we 're moored fore and aft — a fixed platform for taking bearings . ’ |
| 20 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 21 | Boiling with rage , yet forced to keep a fixed smile on her face while Carole Meadows continued showing them around the small guest cottage , Laura could barely contain her fury . |
| 22 | Anna Sabatini stepped between them , a fixed smile on her face . |
| 23 | The adaptability of the enterprise may lie in providing appropriate outputs to match the changes of the market from relatively stable physical inputs or may lie in providing a fixed output with changing sources of inputs . |
| 24 | Various card subjects were viewed under a fixed exposure for the A-measure and with a restricted version of the I-measure using only two exposures 12 and 16 . |
| 25 | The world relies for much of its weather data on a network of satellites , which are either stationed in a fixed position above the equator or which travel over the poles to scan the globe . |
| 26 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 27 | Of course , no creative scientist holds rigidly to a fixed position in the light of new evidence , and only Kandel himself can say how far he has now moved beyond such earlier , campaigning reductionism . |
| 28 | For television , this sense of parody , in its generic playfulness , is distinct from the satirical forms characteristic of British television for which , despite their ‘ scandalousness ’ , the truth is a fixed position from which public behaviour may be castigated and public morals improved . |
| 29 | If a material behaves according to Stokes ' Law then , by repeatedly sampling at a fixed depth below the surface progressively finer and finer sediments are present at the sampling depth . |
| 30 | It was necessary to describe the response more precisely and in particular to examine the change of reading of a fixed subject with increasing exposure between these limits . |