Example sentences of "[vb -s] an [noun] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the firm selling overseas needs an understanding of why they behave in that way . |
| 2 | It needs an understanding of how all the parts contribute to the whole , so that new elements of collaboration can be introduced as and when appropriate , with the children 's confidence and understanding being developed until they are ready to take over the initiative for themselves . |
| 3 | So er when schemes by the good service of actuaries can be re-written in such extreme terms I begin to worry about it and I think it needs an input for more than one direction on the actuarial fund in our case the trustees saw fit not to use actuaries to get away |
| 4 | Forest extends up to 1,200m and covers an area of over 19,500 hectares . |
| 5 | Our membrane covers an area of about 4 square centimetres , which is small in comparison with many other mammals . |
| 6 | One on the Yellowstone Plateau in Wyoming , U S A , covers an area of around 2500 km 2 and forms a large basin partly filled by massive sheets of ignimbrite . |
| 7 | Halley 's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years . |
| 8 | In the UK , all newborn babies are screened for the inherited condition phenylketonuria which has an incidence of about 10 cases per 100,000 live births in the UK Afro-Caribbean population . |
| 9 | Although his main tunings are the common ones ( open E — EBEG£BE , open A — EAEAC£E and open G — DGDGBD ) Sonny also has an armoury of more obscure minor , chromatic and combination tunings . |
| 10 | If you ca n't slow down , then deliberately pause so that the person who 's listening to you has an opportunity to mentally catch up on what you 're saying . |
| 11 | It 's all well concealed and unless the auditor has an obligation to actually hunt this down , the kind of white hunter er er of the British economy er then er it wo n't be detected and the passive approach to audit such as the er audit practices board is recommending is simply a recipe for further disasters er and further audit failures . |
| 12 | Yeah , she needs a sleep , she 's shattered , she usually has an hour at least in the morning and another hour in the afternoon . |
| 13 | Your basal metabolic rate ( ie when you are resting ) has an influence on how much energy you expend when you are doing anything that does n't involve very much physical activity . |
| 14 | How we buy food also has an influence on how much we eat of it at any one meal . |
| 15 | A rabbit has an overlap of only 24 degrees , while we manage an amazing 180 degrees . |
| 16 | June Roder , 62 , a pensioner from Ilford , has an income of about £6,000 a year from pensions and savings . |
| 17 | Stanger has an appetite for apparently lost causes that rarely allows opponents to commit errors without getting punished . |
| 18 | The review of RAWP estimated an equation in which standardised mortality ratio has an elasticity of roughly 0.5 , so the same 10% increase in standardised mortality ratio would lead to only a 5% increase in funding target . |
| 19 | The anthropologist Susan Harding has an account of why women and men in a Spanish village use different styles of discourse which depends on the idea that the sexes have differing roles . |
| 20 | I mean anyone who comes into contact with foreigners , and them trying to grasp our language , knows you know has an insight into how difficult into how difficult it can be for some some people . |
| 21 | John is a fishkeeper who works primarily with livebearers these days , but has an interest in just about all groups of fish . |
| 22 | Note that the solar cell has an efficiency of only about 10% . |
| 23 | In particular , the movement of workers directly from one job to another has an effect on both the in flow into unemployment and the outflow from it , an effect that seems to have been neglected . |
| 24 | Because that has an effect on how you can use people . |
| 25 | Studies by Aaronson and Schwartz ( 1973 ) and Aaronson ( 1974 ) indicate that , in both the USA and UK , the mix of public goods and tax rates has an effect on how population is distributed among governmental units ( see chapter 5 ) . |
| 26 | Wesley has an explanation of why the believer can not explain to the unbeliever what he or she has learned by faith . |
| 27 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 28 | The site , which has an area of approximately 5,000 square feet and is freehold , is currently vacant and boarded off . |
| 29 | He calculates that there are enough long-range connections for there to be two-way connections between any patch of 1 mm 2 and every other 1 mm 2 patch over the whole neocortex , which is quite impressive when you realise that the human neocortex has an area of more than 100,000 sq . |
| 30 | Hopkins has an answer for virtually any question you throw at him . |