Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main testing has been operational , but it has been carried out under a variety of conditions and the low-level sub-programs in particular have survived essentially unchanged through several changes to the program . |
| 2 | The material of history is available in a variety of forms and the ability to turn information received in one form into some other form … |
| 3 | Any programme of final drama school productions will present a variety of styles and the casting is aimed at giving students a chance to do well in suitable roles . |
| 4 | The Tec Ni Wavers come in four sizes for a variety of finishes and the perm solution comes in two strengths — natural and coloured hair . |
| 5 | Throughout implementation of the job , communication will take place at a variety of levels and the skill with which it is handled will often dictate the ultimate success of the job . |
| 6 | At a sales level , the reports of the IoD speech had but a marginal effect — Ratner 's outlets trade under a variety of names and the consumers ' memory is short . |
| 7 | The reflected signal is studied as a function of frequency and the resonant frequency , together with higher orders , is then measured . |
| 8 | Remembering that , where M and are the molar mass and partial specific volume of the polymer , and V 1 is the molar volume of the solvent , the equation states that the critical temperature is a function of M and the value of T c at infinite M is the theta temperature for the system . |
| 9 | For creep ( stress-relaxation ) experiments the modulus ( compliance ) is a function of time and the load ( extension ) applied . |
| 10 | A case of art and the round table |
| 11 | It is no longer a case of PostScript and the clones but a case of which PostScript . |
| 12 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 13 | This is the way I have learned to use my machine and although there are one or two things I still do n't quite understand , I feel that with a bit of determination and the help of your articles I am getting there . |
| 14 | It 's a chance for a bit of fun and the height of the gardening year ; an occasion which even a beleaguered Prime Minister takes time out for . |
| 15 | Sleepily goes into spiel about what kind of care would she like , has she chosen a hospital yet , how does she feel generally , this is her first , is n't it , a lot of nonsense talked nowadays about active births and so on , what people fail to realize is that birth is potentially highly dangerous for the mother and the child and that with a bit of foresight and the right equipment it 's possible to etc. , etc. , etc . |
| 16 | Yeah I saw a bit of America and the West Indies and the Middle East , bit of Europe . |
| 17 | If I give you a bit of paper and the lot , yeah well you know what to do and go to school and fill them in ! |
| 18 | That pinky , one with a bit of pink and the beige and the , whatever , good lord that 's the first thing we made . |
| 19 | come back with a bit of treasure and the answer . |
| 20 | He lost a bit of confidence and the goals dried up . ’ |
| 21 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 22 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 23 | ‘ Now watch , ’ said the doctor , and suddenly the wire came out of the tube in a kind of loop and the doctor lassoed the polyp as if it were a steer . |
| 24 | The colony , always hard up , came to look on Libion as a kind of father and the café as their own . |
| 25 | And you would go back to that and you would maybe have um you maybe had you 'd maybe have a chest of drawers and the drawers were out and you would be polishing you know , doing so much on them , put them aside and then go back to that . |
| 26 | It is a contract of insurance and the policy holder does have a part to play by maintaining the vehicle . |
| 27 | The Factoring Convention embraces transactions in which goods are supplied under a contract of sale and the resulting receivables assigned by the supplier to the factor . |
| 28 | This does not mean that it is the product of labour ( such as could be required by a technique of narration and the mastery of style ) but the very theatre of a production where the producer and reader of the text meet : the text ‘ works ’ , at each moment and from whatever side one takes it . |
| 29 | A more extensively used method , wet harvesting is far more efficient : the bogs are dammed , flooded with a foot of water and the ripe berries are dislodged from the vines by mechanical water reels , known as giant egg beaters . |
| 30 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |