Example sentences of "and [art] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 The demands that playing with Floyd , and Mike and the Mechanics and a the various sessions and TV dates make on your skills , must be echoed by the equipment you use …
2 It 's really the calorie content which should make you careful — and the knowledge that a steady stream of alcohol acts much like caffeine in coffee , slowing down the action of the liver and thus , our metabolic rate .
3 Before considering the different techniques for resolving conflicts of interest , it is first necessary to outline when a fiduciary relationship arises and the duties that a fiduciary owes to the beneficiary , for our purposes the customer .
4 I was suddenly aware of the station undertones : the wheels and the steam and a distant whistle .
5 And Lulach , his face clear-textured and open , reflecting the sky and the sunlight and an untouched innocence : the innocence , Tuathal had long ago decided , that does not know what responsibility means .
6 My past curiosity gave a sharpness to the outlines of the trees and the houses and a magic quality to the people I saw moving about .
7 it should be remembered that though these students often have no recent formal education , their motivation and potential learning power is very strong , stemming from their constant exposure to a bilingual environment , and the realisation that a certificated functional bilingual environment will raise the chances of their and others ' access to education , employment and public services .
8 With a causal theory of knowledge and the thesis that a belief is justified if if true it would be knowledge , we can give a causal account of justification which is not vulnerable to the existence of false justified beliefs .
9 In a high-context culture , however , much more depends on ‘ who you are ’ , personal relationships and the idea that a person 's word is his bond .
10 I think that Mr has lost his bet because we are a party who is not obsessed by ideology we are not prepared to act indefinitely like bulls in a china shop when the owners of the shop have an infinite supply of china We want to move forward and we want to move forward in the real world and the idea that a strong government and sticking to what you want through thick and thin when clearly you 're not going to get the result you want , as indeed the government did over the poll tax , in the end you have to recognise the reality the Labour group , as much as anything else , are part of that reality .
11 But on the whole the canvases of 1911 show the painters at their closest point , and the year and a half from the autumn of 1910 until the spring of 1912 was the period during which Cubist painting of the pre-war period appeared to change least radically .
12 It was Tax Day , the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns , and the day that a New York judge had ordered Mrs Helmsley , 71 , to surrender to jail after two and a half years of appeals following her conviction for cheating the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) of $1.7 million .
13 In that if an advertisement identifies particular goods the cash price and the A.P.R. or an A.P.R. Statement must appear .
14 He said that great strides had been made by BNFL since 1986 with particular successes in the areas of UK and overseas customer relationships , relations with the DoE and the regulators and a ‘ vast improvement ’ in media relations through BNFL 's policy of honesty and openness .
15 The response of company law to that threat , and the response that a reformed company law might usefully make , will be considered in succeeding chapters .
16 The sibilance of his whispering voice and the recollection that a certain man had been found with his throat cut , turned Dolly rigid in the bed .
17 Perception in particular seems relatively immediate , and the notion that a bird 's perceptions are laboriously constructed by strings of formal computations is absurd .
18 The Iranian policies that frighten its neighbours and the wider world are said to include the promotion of international terrorism , attempts to obstruct peace between Israel and the Arabs and a burning ambition to acquire long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction .
19 It is a tribute to Masur and the players that a live performance — apparently taken from one concert and not edited from other sources , unless it was a previous rehearsal — should achieve a precision of ensemble to rival that of a studio performance .
20 thirty pound policy gives and the cover that a four hundred pound policy gives is totally different .
21 But the Chancellor may be looking and hoping further ahead , to Friday 's US employment report and the possibility that a bit of a dollar rebound might haul the pound up against the mark .
22 Secondly , some people I spoke to thought that local planning had been slowed by uncertainty about last year 's general election and the possibility that a Labour government might have diluted or delayed the community care reforms .
23 Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs .
24 The confusing rules prohibiting charging for educational provision ( including anything provided as part of the National Curriculum ) and examination entry ( see Appendix to this chapter ) , and the requirement that a course of study leading to a qualification authenticated by an outside body be approved by the Secretary of State or a designated body , have imposed further constraints on what may be offered .
25 It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation .
26 The gravity of the situation was compounded by mounting military unrest over pay , and the threat that a breakdown in military discipline could lead to a coup .
27 Of paramount importance were Paracelsus 's conception of disease as a specific entity , taking up its residence in localised sites and possessing a distinct natural course , and the hypothesis that a specific remedy could be applied to counteract such an intrusion .
28 The magnitude of Crawford 's performance was summed up by Sheridan Morley in The Tatler : ‘ In the end it is Mr Crawford 's evening : he turns in the kind of all-singing all-dancing performance that legends are made of , and the kind that an English actor has n't achieved since Buchanan in the 30s . ’
29 In 1945–46 Soviet policy was to encourage cooperation between the moderate leftists and the communists until an administrative framework had been created .
30 Then the distribution of the number r ab of clones which hybridise to both probes conditional on n ab clones hybridising to either probe is binomial B ( n ab , 1- d ab ) , since the clones are independent and the probability that a clone hybridises to both probes given that it hybridises to one is 1- d ab .
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