Example sentences of "and a [noun sg] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consistency of attitude and a degree of persistence in time creates confidence . |
| 2 | The major external factors which limit development potential will have to be lifted and a degree of protection for certain areas , commodities or social groups will be essential if the rehabilitation of agriculture is to take place . |
| 3 | A group has some central purpose , temporary or permanent , and a degree of self-awareness as a group . |
| 4 | There may be time lags and a degree of sub-optimality in the correspondence between relations of production and legal relations , but otherwise law is functional for the economic base . |
| 5 | There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest . |
| 6 | This is no easy task when we consider that what is required is some competence in a range of applications software and a degree of sensitivity to the data modelling and analytical problems that historical source material and historical research involve . |
| 7 | The two further major reservations that must be made are first that the service is moulded chiefly by the doctrine of ministerial responsibility with all that flows from it — anonymity , one collective viewpoint , secrecy and a degree of isolation from the rest of the community . |
| 8 | The feeling is growing that since the occupiers of rural land benefit considerably from tax-payers ' money then tax-payers should have access to , and a degree of control over the use of such land . |
| 9 | Most librarians prefer to divide orders amongst a number of booksellers in order to give themselves greater flexibility and a degree of control over the standards of service , and also to make use of the specializations of different dealers . |
| 10 | Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system . |
| 11 | This would provide incentives to employees and a degree of continuity for the business . |
| 12 | To imagine what a girl 's prospects actually were , we should bear in mind three by now well-established points about the employment of women in general : by and large women were doing different work from men of similar age and class ; women were concentrated in unskilled and low-paid jobs ; and a majority of women in paid work were young and unmarried . |
| 13 | The government would issue bonds with five-year maturity and a level of interest of 1.5 per cent over the London interbank offered rate ( Libor ) , after a two-year grace period . |
| 14 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 15 | With a balloon bobbing against my left shoulder and sand blowing over my boots , I opened my presents — a hot-water bottle and a small canister of shaving foam from Joan , and the book of Job and a miniature of whisky from my parents . |
| 16 | You 'll oblige me and fetch a priest here who can do the marrying , and a skinful of wine for everyone and food for a month or more , since we 're settling . |
| 17 | Discussions are currently under way between M Prior and a firm of opticians on the provision of eye and eyesight testing to workstation operators . |
| 18 | Various ‘ exclusive ’ remixes of Altern-8 , Digital Boy and a variety of Italians including Anticapella , Antico and DJ Professor and Art Of Noise ( a Prodigy mix of ‘ Instruments Of Darkness ’ 0 etc . |
| 19 | This was followed by further legislation in 1924 ( the ‘ Wheatley ’ Act ) and a variety of measures during the 1930s . |
| 20 | Everything in Italian politics is subject to change as the old order is swept away and a variety of designs for the future are proposed . |
| 21 | Thin films of liquid between two plane-faced salt windows are simplest to prepare , and a variety of designs of spaced-window cells , with fixed or variable sample thickness , are commercially available . |
| 22 | The application of the Newtonian paradigm in astronomy involves the use of a variety of approved kinds of telescope , together with techniques for their use and a variety of techniques for the correction of the data collected with their aid . |
| 23 | ICI has important patents in the field , covering a number of different monomers and fillers and a variety of techniques for their use and we intend to exploit the position by developing a range of filled dispersions and materials based on them . ’ |
| 24 | The high esteem in which gold has been held in most parts of the world , the relative ease with which it can be wrought and not least its capacity for combining with other desirable things have led to its being favoured above all others for jewellery , objects of parade and a variety of insignia of status . |
| 25 | It was one of those restaurants with paper tablecloths and a pot of crayons on each table and we both started drawing . |
| 26 | She wanted to tell her that perhaps the plan — the dark colours , the new name — was n't necessary any more , that there was an awareness between herself and Tom today that almost made her believe he did share her feelings , but with Tom himself in the room , and Bill as well , and Mrs Porter coming in now with Faye 's mid-afternoon snack and a pot of tea for everyone , there was clearly no opportunity . |
| 27 | It was no coincidence that these decades saw new programmatic statements of papal ideology and a revitalising of contacts between Rome and all parts of the west . |
| 28 | The President decided upon military intervention on Sunday , after a weekend of harassment of US citizens , and a year of humiliation at Noriega 's hands . |
| 29 | Last year 's View from Invercauld and a painting of Wensleydale from Gunnerside in 1991 are of exceptional quality , while there is a particularly fine , and possibly historically significant , painting of Hong Kong seen from the afterdeck of Britannia , with the White Ensign hanging limply in the foreground . |
| 30 | It is a very feminine , ‘ forties ’ style with clever shaping at the front and a panel of lace over the bodice which forms a scalloped V-shaped neckline . |