Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] an " in BNC.

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31 By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term .
32 While it is clear that an enormous range of interest groups exist in Japan , few would argue that small firms , non-unionized labour ( who make up over 70 per cent of the total ) , minority groups or the elderly have the same continuous access to the state as do large companies .
33 In their efforts to master Congress , presidents have normally given a high priority to working through their party 's legislative leaders , but it is clear that an amicable and productive relationship with such leaders was not established during the Nixon years .
34 Following this , it is clear that an understanding of any ‘ deviant ’ phenomena will require two avenues of investigation .
35 It thus becomes clear that an intricate web of mutual dependency existed between the state and private individuals , between the military , the hunters , the peasants , the craftsmen and the merchants .
36 If the meanings of these latter concepts are themselves established by definition , it is clear that an infinite regress will result unless the meanings of some terms are known by some other means .
37 Now it is clear that an answer was implicitly given to 5 Corps " request , by a conference which included representatives both of Eighth Army and of AFHQ itself .
38 For all its deficiencies , the 1988 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) survey of disability in Britain makes clear that an overwhelming feature of the disabled state is poverty ( Abberley , 1991 ) .
39 Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) .
40 And it must be flexible — defining the kind of flexibility required is difficult , but it is clear that an entirely rigid system is impractical .
41 Although the belief in growth as a value in itself , or as the remedy for the ills of society , which seemed to be prevalent in the early 1960s has given way to a more sceptical attitude , it seems clear that an understanding of the long-run consequences of tax and expenditure policy is essential .
42 The rules make it clear that an individual who can show that his or her claim is distinguishable from the rest of the group must have it heard and he or she will be treated individually .
43 It has recently become clear that an action becoming automatic does not necessarily mean that it can not be remembered .
44 Since autonomous expenditure helps determine the position ( intercept ) of the curve ( equation 10–35 ) , it is clear that an increase in government spending will shift the curve to the right .
45 It is now clear that an emergency portosystemic shunt or a devascularisation procedure does not necessarily prejudice the subsequent performance of liver transplantation .
46 The practical effect of the amendment is to make it clear that an RFL can not supervise or manage the office of a multi-national practice , except where no right of audience or right to conduct litigation is exercised from the office or supervised from it .
47 It is clear that an element of contrast is intended , with a meaning something like " in writing Othello , Shakespeare becomes an exception , and so stands in contrast to other writers ' .
48 Whilst it is clear that an employee can not be prevented from using his general skill and knowledge once employment is over , there has been some doubt until recently as to whether the employer could exert any control over such use during employment or whether the law would imply such control .
49 Nevertheless , the section makes clear that an agreement to submit disputes to arbitration is not to be regarded as an exclusion .
50 But it became clear that an outright sale was the best way forward , its spokesman said yesterday .
51 To synthesise such band-pass response , notice that if an inductance of the prototype low-pass filter with unit cut-off pulsatance was then its reactance must become where Thus it is clear that an inductance of the low-pass prototype must be replaced by a series combination of an inductance and capacitance , the values of which are given by equations ( 12.45 ) and ( 12.46 ) .
52 It should be clear that an expansionary change in the economy ( such as an increase in government spending , a cut in tax rates or an increase in the money supply ) would shift the AD curve to the right .
53 Being buffeted around the sky at 10,000 feet with an engine just inches from your ear is not the most comfortable way to fly , but it is more interesting than an anonymous 767 .
54 It is conceivable that an advice session on site is too public , so Stockton have developed an educational role in the school instead .
55 erm , and , and , it could arise in many different circumstances , erm one can imagine a situation which wrongly expel erm a name from the market , well whatever the motives , that clearly distorts competition cos there 's one rule , one less competitor in the market , erm it , it 's con , it , it 's conceivable that an article eighty five argument could arise and an expel name could raise a point , whether he succeeds is another matter , but at that point and , and in relation to that he may say well I can sue you because you 've excluded me you 've restricted competition or you 've excluded a group of names
56 Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation .
57 Linkages may be either backward , when the purchasing firm , which need be neither foreign nor an exporter , buys what it needs locally , or forward , when the seller firm supplies a local firm with what it needs to produce something else .
58 The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic .
59 After the sheriff 's judgment , there was an indication from the fiscal that an appeal would be lodged .
60 Indeed , it is doubtful that an inanimate entity can meaningfully be said to have interests , or if it could , what they would be .
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