Example sentences of "[art] [num] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport . |
| 2 | In the 1987 campaign he played a key role at Labour headquarters . |
| 3 | The authorities seemed to adopt a dual approach to the anniversary ; on the one hand they launched a massive security operation in the city and detained a number of potential trouble makers , but on the other hand they attempted to portray an image of leniency by releasing groups of pro-democracy activists who had been arrested in 1989 . |
| 4 | Oswald has been chairman of the Darlington Brown Trout Angling Association for 38 years , and jokes : ‘ On the one hand I catch a fish then put it back into the water . |
| 5 | On the one hand I suspected a trap , but on the other the man was patently honest . |
| 6 | And it seems to me that your problem is that , on the one hand you have a big and relatively easily you have you have you have a big job , but with big , but relatively defined , easily defined issues on your hands . |
| 7 | On the one hand it offers a way of displaying hardness , on the other it is respectable , adopted as part of the official culture of ‘ school ’ or ‘ youth club ’ . |
| 8 | On the one hand it proposes a range of socially useful products , and on the other , new forms of technology which would provide for a human-enhancing and liberating means of making the socially useful products . |
| 9 | On the one hand she makes a speculative diagnosis of him , out of Adlerian psychology ; on the other hand she half believes — but ca n't quite bring herself to say — that the blame lies with England , for virtually expelling him a quarter-century before . |
| 10 | No birth control method will work unless it is used regularly — the one time you take a chance could be the time pregnancy occurs ! |
| 11 | In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers ' co-management . |