Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 The special and attractive character of the Ortiz collection is that it is not just an assemblage of objects but the coherent vision of a man who believes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the collector is as creative as the artist .
2 The owners consider offering the manager ( suppose like A in figure 3.1 ) , an income of £0 if the firm does badly , £1000 if it does well , " contract 1 " , pocketing the rest themselves .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 an appreciation of probability and the concept of the normal curve
6 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 .
7 Failure to act in a particular way will not be an abuse of power unless the decision not to act in that way is beyond the limits of the discretion given to the power-holder .
8 Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts , but something that must be looked at away from politcs .
9 They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful .
10 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 .
11 It was not only reform as an aim of punishment that the Justice Model eyed with suspicion .
12 In November 1990 the Harms Commission , set up by the government to investigate allegations of political murders , had recommended an investigation of allegations that the CCB was implicated in assassinations of ANC activists .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 There was an explosion of blood and the nose seemed to burst .
16 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 .
17 The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology .
18 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 .
19 You may also take this early opportunity of preparing an epitome of title if the land is unregistered .
20 As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators .
21 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 .
22 For a diameter of 34pc this gives the SNR an age of 5,600yr but the deduced age is dependent upon the assumed density of the medium into which the SNR is expanding .
23 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 ) .
24 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 .
25 However , given the implied term of reasonable care and skill under SGSA s 13 , both ss 2 and 3 of the UCTA may well apply in any event to avoid an exclusion of liability if the wrong substance is used , or it does not produce the result contracted for .
26 Again , it 's an area of concern that the working party has been considering .
27 Nor , more importantly , will they be able to suppose that there could therefore be no lasting future for an industrial co-operative sector operating in a market economy , as an extension of democracy as the term is understood in the west and , hence , as an evolutionary advance from Capitalism .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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