Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] and [art] " 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 | By the time the draw takes place the audience will have had an eyeful of Loren and an earful of Pavarotti , who was once a deep-lying centre-forward and is now roughly the same shape as the ball . |
| 3 | So there was a chance that fusion , which would derive its energy from deuterium , an isotope of hydrogen and a constituent of ordinary water , could come along and render fission redundant . |
| 4 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 5 | In spite of its brilliant career , the society 's delay in giving it an award of merit and a first-class certificate indicates unusual prudence , for ‘ the Château Yquem of apples ’ , as E. A. Bunyard described it in 1929 , did not receive these confirmations of its quality until 1962 . |
| 6 | A moral practice , Oakeshott suggests , is like a language ‘ in being an instrument of understanding and a medium of intercourse , in having a vocabulary and syntax of its own , and in being spoken well or ill ’ . |
| 7 | Chagrin is an omen of death and a messenger of the devil , ‘ o'Beugh ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | an appreciation of probability and the concept of the normal curve |
| 10 | He had committed an act of bankruptcy and a petition had been presented . |
| 11 | It has at all times been an act of faith and a declaration of belief , the faith and the belief that a society and a nation will fare best , in this world and the next , where the most promising of its youth are withdrawn at a critical period of their development to spend several years in close and intimate proximity with one another and with those whose talent and delight is the pursuit of knowledge of all kinds for its own sake and the communication of that talent and delight to their successors . |
| 12 | If a section of the population is held to live below a minimum economic standard because of the selfish aspirations of the rest of the community , this is an act of exploitation and a reason for communal guilt . |
| 13 | In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 14 | Finally , erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth , erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system , there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six , and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Code specified the action required if members did not adhere to the Code on an issue of censorship and no action was taken . |
| 17 | Where the process is used for some purpose other than that for which it is intended , the distinction between an error of judgment and an abuse of process may be rather fine . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | An examination of conscience and a sense of virtuous purpose is always to be recommended . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity . |
| 23 | There was an explosion of blood and the nose seemed to burst . |
| 24 | Any overall surplus of exports over imports would result from an excess of saving and a lack of consumption and investment within the economy . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The ruling class may be an alliance of classes and the maintenance of hegemony is not the same thing as a monolithic dominant ideology . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Breakfast was served from a room down the corridor , and consisted of an inch of coffee and a biscuit . |
| 29 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 30 | 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 . |