Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consistency of attitude and a degree of persistence in time creates confidence . |
| 2 | The major external factors which limit development potential will have to be lifted and a degree of protection for certain areas , commodities or social groups will be essential if the rehabilitation of agriculture is to take place . |
| 3 | A group has some central purpose , temporary or permanent , and a degree of self-awareness as a group . |
| 4 | There may be time lags and a degree of sub-optimality in the correspondence between relations of production and legal relations , but otherwise law is functional for the economic base . |
| 5 | There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest . |
| 6 | This is no easy task when we consider that what is required is some competence in a range of applications software and a degree of sensitivity to the data modelling and analytical problems that historical source material and historical research involve . |
| 7 | The two further major reservations that must be made are first that the service is moulded chiefly by the doctrine of ministerial responsibility with all that flows from it — anonymity , one collective viewpoint , secrecy and a degree of isolation from the rest of the community . |
| 8 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 9 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 10 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 11 | This would provide incentives to employees and a degree of continuity for the business . |
| 12 | After Tonbridge School and a degree in geography at Durham University , James Riley joined Price Waterhouse in September 1982 . |
| 13 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 14 | Commenting on its figures ( see page seven ) , Datapoint Corp says that the decline in revenue as of January 30 was down mainly to unfavourable foreign currency translations and an interruption of the French subsidiary 's operations following a fire in its leased warehouse — but there are some bulls of the shares around these days : analyst Howard Harlow of New York 's Whale Securities sees a major turnaround and a doubling in value of the shares over the next 12 months ; he sees earnings of $0.60 a share in 1993 followed by $1.20 a share in 1994 . |
| 15 | It does n't actually name Software Ireland , but says the acquisition will give its Arccom Management Systems subsidiary three strategic advantages — more control over its mainstay product line ; advance information on new products currently in development ; and a voice in decisions for follow-on products — and Arccom , in Marietta , Georgia is the exclusive North American distributor for Software Ireland 's Unibol migration , conversion and recompilation system , which converts IBM Corp RPG II applications for Unix systems . |
| 16 | Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes . |
| 17 | However , significant resources are also being made available by the private sector where there is no immediate commercial gain : thus IBM UK Ltd has donated £3.5m. of computing equipment to UNEP and IBM in general is actively supporting other R&D which can be expected to facilitate ‘ sustainable development ’ : IBM Europe , for instance , has invested $16m. in its Bergen scientific centre to make it the focal point for the company 's environmental modelling and a centre for information on the environment and sustainable development . |
| 18 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 19 | And so here she was , one snail crawl through the blizzard to Kennedy , a five-hour delay and a flight in which she was wedged between a nun who prayed aloud every time they hit an air-pocket , and a child in need of worming , later . |
| 20 | The government would issue bonds with five-year maturity and a level of interest of 1.5 per cent over the London interbank offered rate ( Libor ) , after a two-year grace period . |
| 21 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 22 | With a balloon bobbing against my left shoulder and sand blowing over my boots , I opened my presents — a hot-water bottle and a small canister of shaving foam from Joan , and the book of Job and a miniature of whisky from my parents . |
| 23 | It finances these pensions from a flat-rate weekly poll tax , called a contribution , and a levy on employers per head of employee , with some supplement from general taxation . |
| 24 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 25 | The most commonly used measure for assessing overall performance in the private sector is to divide profit before the deduction of interest and a provision for taxation by capital employed , defined as share capital plus long-term debt . |
| 26 | Discussions are currently under way between M Prior and a firm of opticians on the provision of eye and eyesight testing to workstation operators . |
| 27 | Various ‘ exclusive ’ remixes of Altern-8 , Digital Boy and a variety of Italians including Anticapella , Antico and DJ Professor and Art Of Noise ( a Prodigy mix of ‘ Instruments Of Darkness ’ 0 etc . |
| 28 | This was followed by further legislation in 1924 ( the ‘ Wheatley ’ Act ) and a variety of measures during the 1930s . |
| 29 | Everything in Italian politics is subject to change as the old order is swept away and a variety of designs for the future are proposed . |
| 30 | Thin films of liquid between two plane-faced salt windows are simplest to prepare , and a variety of designs of spaced-window cells , with fixed or variable sample thickness , are commercially available . |