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 . |