Example sentences of "an [noun] of [adj] [coord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 2 | An array of medieval and Renaissance furniture , English paintings and portraits , English silver , French wallpaper , the extraordinarily rich assemblage of sixteenth-century paintings , both ‘ official ’ art of the Salons and the Impressionists . |
| 3 | Proposals to amend the 1976 Organic Law had been contained in the campaign of the " grand alliance " — an amalgam of pro-Chinese and business interests and Macanese ( people of mixed Chinese and Portuguese blood ) — for the October 1988 elections to the Legislative Assembly [ see p. 36765 ] . |
| 4 | In contrast , Mary Poovey 's recent account of the Norton case emphasizes the way in which the ideological separation of spheres both generated and depended on an arrangement of social and property relations that positioned women as moral superiors and economic dependents . |
| 5 | Achievement of longer intervals between births would also reduce completed family size , and the elimination of high order birth , with their comparatively poorer survival chances , would bring about an amelioration of maternal and child morbidity and mortality conditions . |
| 6 | energy council , I 'm not make a bid , we 've just , er we 've just heard , what I think is a , is an example of enlightened and model practice , so praise is on the superfluous , but I think we 're probably not typical of of the business sector in being so enlightened , and my question is only a wide one , and it is this . |
| 7 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 8 | An increased awareness of potential stressors brought about by better education and an understanding of individual and group responses to it can help to prevent stress from becoming unmanageable and overwhelming . |
| 9 | Noted successes included Anselm Kiefer 's ‘ Säulen ’ ( lot 24 ) , ‘ Franz im Bett ’ , a major painting by Georg Baselitz ( lot 23a , est. $300–400,000 ) which had been shown at Berlin 's ‘ Zeitgeist ’ exhibition in 1982 and was bought by an unidentified collector from Omaha for $400,000 ( £222,200 ) ; a precious little candle painting by Gerhard Richter ( lot 3 , est. $80–120,000 ) which attracted keen interest and a winning bid of $200,000 ( £111,100 ) ; and ‘ Stacked ’ , a carved polychrome wood sculpture of an assortment of domestic and farm animals by Jeff Koons ( lot 8a , est. $100–150,000 ) from the Banality exhibition of 1988 and shown in ‘ Metropolis ’ in Berlin last year , which was sold for $160,000 ( £88,900 ) with Thomas Ammann and Anthony d'Offay among the underbidders . |
| 10 | His objective was to create an atmosphere of quiet and intimacy , so he made a garden , then a cloister and a shrine . |