Example sentences of "a [noun sg] on [noun sg] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cape people excitably promise ‘ a spy story , a political thriller , a meditation on identity and a confession ’ , but it 's a racing cert that it will be Roth nagging away at his Jewishness , his Roth-ness , his menagerie of doppelgangers , turning solipsism into style . |
| 2 | De Valera 's Republicans decided to contest seats in the North and thus allowed Prime Minister Brooke to present the election as a plebiscite on partition and the existence of Ulster . |
| 3 | There was a distinction between simply a reflection on development and a feeding of insights gained from individual development experience into a wider shared theological reflection on development . |
| 4 | Marvell , in the same way as Marlowe , has found himself , although only momentarily , a heaven on earth and a perfect retreat for a soul still bound to the temporal world . |
| 5 | Since labour is supplied inelastically , a wage tax and a lump-sum tax on earners are equivalent ; since all assets are assumed to earn the same rate of return , a tax on capital and a tax on the income from capital are equivalent . |
| 6 | He dismisses the idea that it is a tax on knowledge and an anti-competitive tax which would leave television news unscathed . |
| 7 | The day after tomorrow she was actually going to be with Lucy at a conference on ecology and the arts . |
| 8 | But these differences reflect different ideas of what counts as relevant evidence ; and much of the literature is a debate on evidence and the proper and improper uses of techniques for manipulating data . |
| 9 | Dawson 's ‘ Sign of the Times ’ , a comment on pollution and the environment , for example — submitted for Camerawork 's exhibition of the same title — was designed to be different . |
| 10 | Dawson 's ‘ Sign of the Times ’ , a comment on pollution and the environment , for example — submitted for Camerawork 's exhibition of the same title — was designed to be different . |
| 11 | Johnny Marr was acting like a superstar on stage and the gig finished with Andy , our singer , threatening to hit him . |
| 12 | Example If you have a paragraph on irony in Conrad 's " Heart of Darkness " , a paragraph on characterisation and a paragraph on narrative closure , you could try to link them together by talking more generally about the abstract relationship between irony , characterisation and narrative closure . |
| 13 | He and Benjamin soon became immersed in a discussion on alchemy and the philosopher 's stone : the librarian also offered to take my master to see Narepool at the bottom of which , according to legend , Arthur 's Sword still lay . |
| 14 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 15 | Spending cuts , a clampdown on corruption and an increase in tax revenues had reportedly enabled the government to reduce the public-sector deficit from 8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1988 to zero . |
| 16 | Their optical spectra show large red shifts z , where being the wavelength of a spectral line from a source on Earth and the wavelength of the same line observed in the quasar spectrum . |
| 17 | Watch Committees were organized to keep an eye on prostitution and the granting of licences to publicans . |
| 18 | Most readers treated an article on mathematics and the infinite with caution . |
| 19 | Courses have an emphasis on technology and a problem-solving approach to many of the tasks undertaken . |
| 20 | From all these complex intervening circumstances , they conclude that two strands of influence will have an impact on self-esteem and the development of depression following childhood loss ( Fig. 4.5 ) . |
| 21 | There should be an acknowledgement on meeting and a ‘ thank you ’ on parting , no matter how brief . |