Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tender can , of course , be made without an admission of liability and the sum offered may well be designed not merely to reflect the value of the claim on a full liability basis , but discounted to reflect the difficulties which the pursuer faces . |
| 2 | The database for the project therefore has a very wide coverage , with the background work in class suggesting links with religion , slavery and the history an geography of India and the United States . |
| 3 | an appreciation of probability and the concept of the normal curve |
| 4 | Following a conference on the Tuareg rebellion in December [ see p. 38665 ] , members of the government and the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad , representing the Tuaregs , met on Jan. 22-24 in Algiers and agreed on a truce , an exchange of prisoners and the continuation of negotiations . |
| 5 | All of these pavements , however , appear , to a greater or lesser extent , as vigorous and inventive designs , with an ease of draughtsmanship and the suggestion of free movement from or about a central point . |
| 6 | The Welsh objections , far more cautionary than anti , mostly related to the possibility of political and economic instability in an era of change and the attendant dangers of hurrying South Africa back into such rugby prominence . |
| 7 | The appraisal will be time consuming and includes an examination of teaching and the other aspects of teachers ' job such as lesson planning and syllabus development . |
| 8 | There was an explosion of blood and the nose seemed to burst . |
| 9 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 10 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 11 | Having decided that the redundancy costs fall to be treated as a liability , it is probable that there will be an outflow of resources and the cost can be measured with reliability . |
| 12 | In part it was done by exploiting as fully as possible many small miscellaneous sources of income , such as fines on recusants and the revenue of vacant episcopal sees ; in part by careful and economic management — the household expenses were kept rigidly down in an age of inflation and the building of royal palaces was brought to an end ; in part by rewarding courtiers and officials from wardships and monopolies . |
| 13 | Putting and making the inverse transformation via equation ( 11.32 ) or Again there is an absence of oscillation and the circuit in this condition is said to be overdamped ( refer back to figure 4.15(b) again ) . |
| 14 | One of the most widely-appreciated uses of SYMAP in the UK was Rosing and Wood ( 1971 ) who produced an atlas of Birmingham and the Black Country . |
| 15 | The reason for Bleach 's high media profile recently is simply that they are a pearl in an oyster of normality and the ‘ Eclipse EP ’ blots out every other noise/female vocal merchants being hailed as the new messiahs with immense ease . |
| 16 | The reason for Bleach 's high media profile recently is simply that they are a pearl in an oyster of normality and the ‘ Eclipse EP ’ blots out every other noise/female vocal merchants being hailed as the new messiahs with immense ease . |
| 17 | The librarian has also found that close examination of data required in producing databases brings about an awareness of bias and the development of objective criticism . |
| 18 | There , a combination of poor housing and education , high crime rates , much of it drug-related , large-scale immigration and associated racial tensions , an exodus of jobs and the more well-off to the suburbs , high youth unemployment and welfare dependency and the break-up of traditional family structures have served to create what some commentators in the United States have described as an ‘ urban underclass ’ . |
| 19 | — Developing an analysis of society and the Church which will isolate the key tasks which should be taken up by the prophetic sector in the Church . |
| 20 | Addressing the 25th congress of the environmental federation France Nature Environnement in Paris , he said he wanted an understanding of ecology and the environment to form part of education from primary to university levels , and in particular at the " grandes écoles " responsible for educating the elite of French officialdom . |
| 21 | However , sexual abuse of children clearly differs in nature from physical abuse : the perpetrators are mostly male , the victims mostly female , ( although the number of cases of boys being abused in this way is growing ) , and understanding the origins of such abuse must lie within an understanding of sexuality and the distribution of power within our society . |
| 22 | I suspect that part of the problem is that councils have an allocation of resources and the Department of Transport has helped by providing extra resources . |
| 23 | The crowd , jubilant at President Fidel Ramos ' decision to allow the body 's return , pushed and shouted as the 727 jet , which bore an image of Marcos and the words ‘ I am a Filipino , ’ taxied to the terminal . |
| 24 | A golden shrine was placed over his tomb , with an image of Charles and the simple inscription : |
| 25 | In an absorbing , epic quest for the self , the humour , occasional nostalgia and vibrancy of the novel 's language fail to deflect from an undertow of melancholy and the sense of irrecoverable loss . |
| 26 | Hence , there is an element of consideration and the transaction can be regarded as an accord and satisfaction . |
| 27 | The Roman Catholics had to wait another five years again , and I was already in Banbury when the Roman Catholic voluntary-aided secondary modern school was opened , in an odour of incense and the presence of an Archbishop . |
| 28 | This involves an input of energy and the sodium is trapped inside a large molecule , called an ionophore , that acts as a ligand ( a compound that can attach itself strongly to a metal ) . |