Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your experiment involves other people ( e.g. if you are comparing different readers ' responses ) , you need to consider ethical issues which arise , including ( a ) getting their permission to use the results ; ( b ) showing them the results and explaining them ; ( c ) not using their names when you report the experiment ( even if they have given permission for this , there is unlikely to be any point ) ; ( d ) the ethical problem that sometimes an experiment is best conducted if the test subjects do n't know what it is for ; that is , if there is a " secret agenda " . |
| 2 | They are run by Japanese , the real decisions are taken at head office , foreigners have no chance of promotion , and all the fancy design work is done at home , leaving the overseas factory as just an assembly plant for imported components . |
| 3 | I can not for the life of me see why the County Council as the Statutory Authority and supposedly an independent er er body to British Coal is so resistant to a full public inquiry when only the clear er proposals of British Coal will come out . |
| 4 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
| 5 | So that , can you could give me two , please , give me a literal translation and then an idiomatic one , as if you 're doing a modern bible . |
| 6 | Much of a manager 's use of statistics is to demonstrate to others that there is a definite pattern and hence an important message inherent in the data . |
| 7 | Whether you save yourself , a wounded friend or even an unconscious attacker , the knowledge is vital . |
| 8 | Had the plea come from a budding starlet or perhaps an Italian supermodel , Jagger would have tripped over his lips in an effort to scrawl his name — and perhaps his phone number — in her book for posterity . |
| 9 | I am a professional artist and also an officer of the RSPCA and a very active member of wildlife conservation organisations . |
| 10 | A recent large randomised study in India found no such effect but rather an apparent slight excess of deaths in the supplemented group . |
| 11 | Today it is one of the largest unitary , non-collegiate universities in Britain offering not only first-class tuition in every principal subject but also an unsurpassed range of undergraduate courses — a cosmopolitan University in a cosmopolitan city . |
| 12 | The stipes articulates with the distal border of the cardo and is sometimes divided into a basistipes and a dististipes. it bears a lateral palpifer and sometimes an inner sclerite , the subgalea ( or parastipes ) . |
| 13 | It follows that the cost of depreciation , which is based on the historic cost , is also a sunk cost and therefore an irrelevant cost . |
| 14 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 15 | When pupils are aware of this process , the design of concept maps , with their hierarchical arrays and interrelated groups , forms first a natural extension and then an eventual integration with the information handling process , whether done in the class or in inquiry work in the library . |
| 16 | The radio telephone is only a partial link since often an officer can not be located by it . |
| 17 | One method in particular , kriging ( now available as part of the UNIRAS software ) , offers not only a contoured surface but also an estimate of the standard error at any point on the map . |
| 18 | It was a happy discussion and then an easy decision . |
| 19 | Is such resistance a legalized rebellion or merely an extralegal revolution ? |
| 20 | However , whether it is a full spin or just an incipient one is academic if the glider stalls a few hundred feet up . |
| 21 | But pointing out limitations in a writer can sometimes seem arrogant , or at least condescending , as in this extract : At times Eliot is too confusing , too abstract and too well read , but his poems initially only demand a first response or simply an appreciation of the words , their structure , sound and order . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note that their evolution was a long and gradual one and not such a revolutionary concept but simply an extension of where we are now i.e. in centesimal potency ( 5th edition ) philosophy . |
| 23 | Cermait said , rather huffily , that it was a well-known fact that even an acorn-full of poteen sent you fast asleep , and Fintan gave vent to a derisive hoot . |
| 24 | IT 'S NEVER EASY to tell , when something seems to be happening more and more , whether there is a genuine trend or merely an excessive zeal of reporting . |
| 25 | The estate agent was only a young man but quite an astute one at that … no-one was going to put one over on him . |
| 26 | Her exemplar was her father , a local patriarch and evidently an apostle of Samuel Smiles-type individualism : she omitted reference to her mother in Who 's Who . |
| 27 | Assuming non-degeneracy , at each iteration the cost decreases by a positive amount and so an optimal BFS is eventually reached . |
| 28 | For the highest level jobs a whole country or even an international community might be considered , but in European countries most workers attempt to find jobs which do not require either moving house or excessive travelling , and such proximity has corresponding advantages for the potential employers . |
| 29 | Rhee was a formidable politician and often an underrated one . |
| 30 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |