Example sentences of "an [noun] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can only conclude that ‘ Either badgers waste energy with the continued digging or very large burrows confer an advantage that has so far eluded us . ’ |
| 2 | Drop the first letter and you get an insect that wiggles its arse , which seems plain enough . |
| 3 | Then an insect that resembles a stick in only one limited respect will fool one kind of predator , even though it is eaten by all other kinds of predators . |
| 4 | When a little brown bat detects an insect and starts to move in on an interception course , its click rate goes up . |
| 5 | When an hypothesis that has successfully withstood a wide range of rigorous tests is eventually falsified , a new problem , hopefully far removed from the original solved problem , has emerged . |
| 6 | This is not an income that allows for any luxuries . |
| 7 | Shall receive an income that guarantees a decent standard of living . |
| 8 | POVERTY : AN INCOME THAT UNDERMINES CARE |
| 9 | The subject is able to constitute itself as an ‘ I ’ , an abstract , self-knowing subject , in an interaction that recognizes an ‘ other ’ that is a similarly formed subject . |
| 10 | Billingsgate has presided over this decline with all the grace of an oligarchy that sees its power declining . |
| 11 | As Todorov repeatedly insists in his Introduction to Poetics , ‘ The particular text will only be an instance that allows us to describe the properties of literature [ in general ] ’ ( 1981 : 7 ) . |
| 12 | I want to recount an experience that has stayed with me ever since it happened , something that transformed an uneventful journey home from work . |
| 13 | But is not understanding music , poetry , an experience that accompanies the hearing ? ( 155–88 ) |
| 14 | Some children never learn it , not because they can not read , but because the books they are given do not include this need to attend to what the author is not saying — the beginning of an experience that leads to Jane Austen . |
| 15 | It is an ideology that calls itself pluralism when it imposes monoculture ; that speaks of choice as it snuffs out the biodiversity of the earth ; that cries democracy when it eclipses and denies all alternatives . |
| 16 | I have an apartment that overlooks the Elbe . |
| 17 | It may be with a contact poison that quickly enters a soft-bodied creature like a greenfly and kills on contact , a stomach poison that works through the digestive system , a neurotoxin that paralyses the nervous system , or an asphyxiant that enters through the creature 's respiratory system , or we could encourage a natural predator . |
| 18 | As a minimum , it says , The Stock Exchange should require listed companies to publish an OFR that has been reviewed by its auditors for consistency with the financial statements . |
| 19 | Half an hour that takes does n't it ? |
| 20 | That takes about an hour that does . |
| 21 | Well I 've cooked him one , cos it 's no good if he waltzes in in half an hour and says his hungry . |
| 22 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 23 | It is a report and valuation for mortgage and insurance assessment which is usually done in half an hour and consists of a general look at the property to see that it actually exists as described , and is not in a state of collapse or major disrepair . |
| 24 | A full body massage lasts around an hour and costs in the region of £25 to £30 . |
| 25 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 26 | The whole meal takes almost an hour and makes me ravenous . |
| 27 | Ignorance of technical contingency is supplemented with ‘ technology aversion ’ and an elitism that prevents either being remedied ( Pascale , 1984 ) . |
| 28 | Ginger 's greatest single claim to fame is that he set up a record for an inside-forward that has never been beaten at our club , when he scored five goals in the game against Southend at The Palace on 25 September 1909 . |
| 29 | Each word , when it is verified by the word recognition stage , returns an index that points to its morphological root . |
| 30 | Consider an index that contains the 100 largest publicly quoted UK companies . |