Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] [coord] 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | an appreciation of probability and the concept of the normal curve |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Crime is a big issue not just an issue of sentencing or the courts , but something that must be looked at away from politcs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was an explosion of blood and the nose seemed to burst . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It provides the framework for an interpretation of action but the full story is only revealed by an examination of the rules which direct action and which provide for the interpretation of situations . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Pooley wondered if it was an attack of nerves or the result of alcohol withdrawal symptoms . |
| 24 | — 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A golden shrine was placed over his tomb , with an image of Charles and the simple inscription : |
| 30 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |