Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provides a payment of $10 a day up to a maximum of 30 days . |
| 2 | In experiments using British schoolchildren of the same age as Barron 's , selected according to similar criteria for being classified as " good " or " poor " readers , we have found that on a variety of tasks the poorer readers do show an ability to use the phonological codes for printed words ( Briggs and Underwood , 1982 ; Underwood and Briggs , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 4 | The list of HMG-box containing proteins is growing rapidly , comprising a variety of functions the common activity of which seems to be their ability to bind DNA through this domain ( 3-9 ) . |
| 5 | For a variety of reasons the rule is often breached , but there would be no excuse for missing the deadline with a report which had taken so long to prepare . |
| 6 | However , since the mid-1970s for a variety of reasons the content of this ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ has been reduced . |
| 7 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 8 | The evaluators conclude that while the evaluation has shown how INSET and staff development can be enriched by a project like the Essex scheme , for a variety of reasons the development of this area has been disappointing . |
| 9 | Unlike Weber , therefore , who argues that in advanced industrialised societies representative democracy is for a variety of reasons the best available method by which to recruit political leaders , Schumpeter has little interest in recommending political participation for any reason . |
| 10 | I say " purport " deliberately because , for a variety of reasons the terms may fail in their objective in any particular case . |
| 11 | The restaurant is open for breakfast and lunch , and kirsty said : ‘ We serve a variety of dishes every day as well as snacks , sandwiches and salads . |
| 12 | By the late 1970s , the average self-respecting British household expected to have its video recorder or microwave oven ; in a variety of occupations the computer was taking over . |
| 13 | When we looked at the Telegraph and the Times things seem so samey , there 's just this uniform effect everything seeming to look the same whereas here they 've really used such a variety of styles the curly , the straight , the blocked plus your black blocks across the bottom . |
| 14 | The very word ‘ Britain ’ is a device to give a variety of peoples a single political identity . |
| 15 | Hence , when selecting a parser it is vital to determine how wide a variety of grammar the parser is able to process and how easily it can be extended to a larger domain . |
| 16 | A few rocks showed in the water close in to the quarry face and there was a crescent of sand the meadow side of the water with two giant pines shading the right corner . |
| 17 | Well I think it 's going to be a case of phone the council and ask them |
| 18 | In a case of recognition an identification parade would often be pointless but in the present case an identification parade or at the least a controlled confrontation should have been held . |
| 19 | Not a bit of wonder the country 's in the state that it 's in . ’ |
| 20 | He 's the one , do a bit of thingy the one |
| 21 | With a bit of luck the passage would be empty . |
| 22 | With a bit of luck the three of us should be able to get together tonight . ’ |
| 23 | All part of Don Revie 's plan to bring a bit of glamour t' game . |
| 24 | Rather when Carla comes back Monday you 've got to tape the with a bit of wood the window just outside the door because the bolt is on the same side . |
| 25 | Thought to start , it 'd be a bit of fun no harm is it |
| 26 | After that we never got started , as soon as we got a bit of momentum the sunderland players wasted time by falling over and claiming injury . |
| 27 | We just go down for a bit of practice a few nights before . ’ |
| 28 | Well yeah yeah a bit of humour a bit of humour |
| 29 | Mucky hands and a fat bank balance would be a way of life for the first generation of nouveaux-riches manufacturers ; but with a bit of care the brass itself could be used to buy their children out of the world of muck altogether . |
| 30 | It also contributed to a shift in opinion at the Ministry of Education away from the curtailment or freezing of grant towards modest and flexible expansion — and the Eastern District was able to take advantage of the new grant regulations which followed the Report in 1955 to achieve a level of aid a few percentage points higher than the 75% hitherto regarded as standard . |