Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 2 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |
| 3 | A big animal , it is early maturing , rapid in growth and good for intensive rearing without putting on fat , but its major characteristic is its extreme double-muscling , which is an advantage in the eyes of the butcher ( the meat is very lean ) but a considerable disadvantage for purebred cows , who in almost all cases must be calved by caesarian section : the muscling interferes with natural calving . |
| 4 | Another single-deficit interpretation of Broca 's aphasia is that it is a phonological deficit ( Kean , 1977 ) : an impairment of the aspects of the language-processing system that relate to phonology ( the sounds of words , as distinct from their meanings or spellings ) . |
| 5 | That is an hypothesis about the foundations of practical support between kin in the past which could be tested systematically against historical data , although it would be a major task and certainly is beyond my scope here . |
| 6 | That is , the meaning of the combination is also influenced by an interaction between the meanings of its constituents . |
| 7 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |
| 8 | Data are often dirty , containing errors and gaps , and sociolinguistic data have similar characteristics ( see McEntegart and Le Page 1982 for an assessment of the difficulties of applying standard statistical techniques in sociolinguistics ) . |
| 9 | Consequently , valid comparisons of the rate of known opioid use in Wirral with the rates in other areas of the UK depend upon an assessment of the findings of the handful of local surveys of known drug users in the 1980s . |
| 10 | It means that the starting point for the plan is not a strategic concept of the future but an assessment of the resources of the present . |
| 11 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 12 | As regards methods of analysis , it seemed most appropriate to examine the output of selected key bodies , in order to make an assessment of the images of the elderly emerging from each and of similarities and differences among them . |
| 13 | An assessment of the prospects of equality/equity |
| 14 | However , a manager can benefit from understanding the distinctions between the roles and making an assessment of the role-strengths of his own staff . |
| 15 | The traditional Labor Day start of the presidential election campaign , on Sept. 7 , saw an intensification of the efforts of Democratic Party nominee Bill Clinton and his Republican rival and incumbent President , George Bush . |
| 16 | This concept implies peripheralisation , an existence on the borders of society , where there is a lack of participation in the urban social structure . |
| 17 | It sounded so sensible , but for the fact there were , in some countries , still billions of people struggling in an existence beyond the comforts of geodesic domes . |
| 18 | The Inland Revenue 's policy on the allocation of overpayments of tax against underpayments , and the interest consequences thereof , have been published in an appendix to the notes of a meeting between the Revenue and the Institute 's Tax Faculty ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 90 ) . |
| 19 | Right , Whitchurch seven , the , the report they want , where we 're getting to and there is an appendix at the proposals of course , for developing erm , a forum for Whitchurch er , with a range of activities that we could undertake to try to regenerate some confidence in Whitchurch . |
| 20 | In some this may be a result of an imprecision of the techniques of bone density measurement . |
| 21 | Not one of them would be capable of surviving an hour in the alley-ways of East Yzordderrex , he thought , down by the harbour where even the cats had pimps . |
| 22 | The reigning world Formula One champion set a scorching 102.095 miles an hour around the streets of the Queensland holiday resort , clipping about two-tenths of a second off the previous record . |
| 23 | Another flawed but striking recent movie is DOA ( Buena Vista ) , an update from the creators of Max Headroom of the classic 1949 thriller of the same name , which may detrimentally alter the plot of the original but boasts nonetheless some arresting high-tech intimations of neo-expressionist atmosphere . |
| 24 | Developmental evidence suggests that an attachment to the symbols of monarchy occurs at an early stage , well before sophisticated cost-benefit analyses of national revenue are possible ( Abramson and Inglehan , 1970 ) . |
| 25 | The title implies an over-concentration on the minutiae of classroom pedagogy when what may be considered really important are broad issues of curriculum development . |
| 26 | A January wind forced an entry through the legs of the law — eagerly sniffed the corner of the hall , wafted aside Malc 's dressing gown and pressed itself through my home-made dress to conduct an icy-handed body search . |
| 27 | Its influence on village life , along with marriages and other services performed by the church , can be demonstrated by an entry in the records of baptism ; ‘ November 25th 1880 . |
| 28 | Between 1960 and 1980 , in short , Nizan has come to symbolise almost exclusively in the public consciousness the impossibility of sustaining credibility as an intellectual within the confines of the French communist party . |
| 29 | A liberal- democratic constitution , with the danger of " class legislation " ( the phrase used to voice the fear of a working-class takeover through the ballot box ) and an intrusion into the rights of property through the more direct , participatory , and collective democracy of a mandated House of Commons of delegates close to working-class constituencies , seemed to be quite another . |
| 30 | His was the first attempt to explain Stalinism as an aberration through the forms of Marxist analysis itself . |