Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | A major issue in the decision between a generative and a probabilistic system is the robustness of the system . |
| 3 | That 's what I said , to do that and hope for a three or a six or another five or a king . |
| 4 | Despite the political rhetoric of the modern welfare state , which has created popular images to the contrary , the reality is that the basic state retirement pension continues to provide an income between a third and a half of average earnings . |
| 5 | In any intimacy between a stronger and a weaker personality the weaker is inclined to yield even when he has the means to prevail , from a compulsion to see through the eyes of the stronger . |
| 6 | In 1980 the Academic , College and Research Libraries ( ACRL ) Board of Directors in the USA approved funding for a two and a half year project to provide information concerning academic librarianship to organizations and individuals involved with higher education through the development of channels of communication with professional and higher education associations . |
| 7 | It may seem initially that differentiation between a central and a fissure eruption is the simplest thing in the world but , unfortunately , it 's not . |
| 8 | Although occasionally Nizan 's assessment of a writer fluctuated over a period of time ( Gide , Giono , Mauriac ) , although on occasions Nizan was simultaneously attracted and repelled by individual writers ( Mauriac , Drieu la Rochelle , Celine ) , the bottom line was always a clear differentiation between a progressive and a reactionary attitude to culture . |
| 9 | A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin . |
| 10 | The time taken by the cyclist for the six and a half mile journey from Currie to the City Chambers was thirty minutes , making an average speed of 13 mph . |
| 11 | As well as the youth club the church boasts a mother and toddler group , a club for the elderly and a popular meeting point for young people who have regular gatherings at the church 's brand new hall . |
| 12 | Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear . |
| 13 | Erm , there is in fact a , which a number of members have referred to , there is in fact a hundred and fifty thousand being spent this year on day care capital as a result of the two and a half million package which members agreed in October and that has obviously gone to voluntary organizations for them to spend . |
| 14 | Finn , in turn , often appeared in the guise of a hind or a hunting dog , and his children took the form of fauns ( see FAUNUS ) when wishing to escape danger . |
| 15 | I consider in the light of the foregoing that a reference to the objectives of the Community system of quotas can not be used to justify national rules on the registration of fishing vessels , even if those rules were applicable only to vessels intended to fish for species subject to quotas . |
| 16 | In the darkness we passed through the defile of Gebel Silsila where the river narrows dramatically to a width of no more than a few yards . |
| 17 | Whenever possible , notices of change should precede the event ; ( 2 ) identification of the partners who will continue the practice under the original or a new firm name ; ( 3 ) notification of the outgoing partner 's new address and firm name ; ( 4 ) invitation to the client to indicate which of the firms referred to he wishes to instruct . |
| 18 | Such was the set up of the Drama Department in the Sixties that a staff Production Assistant could find himself being allowed a turn in the Director 's chair for one show , giving directions to a fellow PA colleague , and then , a few months later be taking directions from perhaps that same PA , whose turn it had now become to be elevated to the directing heights . |
| 19 | The Buddhist revival gained momentum in the 1870s after a series of public debates between Buddhist and Protestant preachers increased Buddhist self-confidence . |
| 20 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 21 | The Casas Viejas incident of January 1933 , involving a massacre of Andalusian villagers by government forces during an anarchist rising , provoked disgust on the left and a cynical outcry on the right , and began an eight-month process of governmental demoralization and disintegration . |
| 22 | The study day will include lectures and remembrances of the line , which finally closed in 1959 , a walk along part of the trackbed and a viewing of some of the recently restored buildings of the lead mine which the Railway opened to serve in 1877 . |
| 23 | The first part of the one and a half day course deals with all the key elements of TNT on a formal lecture/discussion basis . |
| 24 | Whether the boxing and wrestling matches shown on the carved rhyton from Agia Triadha , a miniature fresco from Tylissos and certain sealings were part of the same or a different festival is not known : the way they are depicted suggests that they too had the quality of ritual struggle . |
| 25 | In every State the mass of the uneducated and a large fraction of the educated were deeply hostile to change , quite untouched by the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment and intensely suspicious of any government-inspired innovation . |
| 26 | In England , the proposal advanced by a majority of the Criminal Law Revision Committee in its Working Paper would similarly have abolished the exemption but distinguished marital from non-marital rape by requiring the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions in the case of the former before a prosecution could be brought . |
| 27 | A hierarchical court structure is essential to give to a particular case a level of authority ; this will determine whether or not the case can be overruled by a decision of the same or a higher court , and which courts , if any , are bound by its decision . |
| 28 | When Marx , he observes , was still in his teens , the battle between a capitalist and a socialist political economy for the minds of English trade unionists had been ( at least temporarily ) won . |
| 29 | In other words , after a certain point , education becomes more a form of consumption for the individual than a form of investment for increasing his earnings further . |
| 30 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |