Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] and 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A change in the weight or fineness of a coinage can occasionally provide a link between an undated and a dated coin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A high wall bars any chance of escape to the left and a frosty beech hedge borders the alley to the right . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do n't believe there 's a one of them could tell the difference between a T-72 and a kiddie 's tricycle . ’ |
| 19 | The smallest detail can often be the difference between a good and a bad picture . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The respondent 's contention is that there is a difference between a public and a private Act . |
| 23 | Not that we 'd actually fallen out , but I 'd walked away to check the markers and I had 127 to the hole and Lee said it was 147 — and that 's a difference between an eight and a seven — so I said , ‘ You got it wrong . ’ |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The statement called for a meeting between a Libyan and a United Kingdom delegate to discuss this issue . |
| 29 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 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 . |