Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 A major issue in the decision between a generative and a probabilistic system is the robustness of the system .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin .
5 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 .
6 Loss of a clear or a bloodstained , watery fluid from the nose or ear .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right .
16 The difference between a Basque and a Catalan nationalist politician , it is said , is that the Catalan hopes to be prime minister of Spain but the Basque dreams of becoming the leader of an independent state .
17 The smallest detail can often be the difference between a good and a bad picture .
18 ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound .
19 But a lot of our client 's finance sections , do n't see the difference between a big and a little job they see some pigeon holes in their spreadsheet and they want to put something in there .
20 The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act .
21 Much more alarming is the idea that you could not tell the difference between an expanding and a contracting Universe , and might indeed live in a Universe in which the arrow of time points in the opposite direction from the one you think it does !
22 In an unpublished manuscript , ‘ Ingredients of good , clear style ’ , Wilson comments as follows on the difference between an old and a revised version of the Bible in Dagbani :
23 This illustrates another problem , that the only effective difference between an interactive and a redundant modular system is the degree of disruption produced by damage to a single component .
24 Oakeshott 's attack on rationalism , which incidentally included an attack on the doctrinal nature of Hayek 's The Road to Serfdom , is transformed by Hayek — who utilizes Popper 's distinction between a naive and a critical rationalism — into an attack on constructivist rationalism .
25 The statement called for a meeting between a Libyan and a United Kingdom delegate to discuss this issue .
26 By any description , the National Socialist League sounds more like the germ of a situation-comedy than a serious political movement .
27 Is it a stylishly cute picture of a rhinocerous or a clever way of pushing young people into smoking .
28 Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place .
29 This time the mini-button selects between ‘ Line ’ — the same as before — and ‘ Mic ’ , for when you 're amplifying your guitar with a dynamic or a condenser-type microphone .
30 In Umberto Eco 's novel , The Name of the Rose , the story of the conflict between a theological and a rational-scientific explanation of a series of murders in a monastery in the fourteenth century , Father Jorge , the self-appointed censor of heretical literature , preached that knowledge is not something to be furthered , only refined .
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