Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I was courting disaster without a rope and partner on , so rushed around below the ice cliffs of the snout to see if I could force a route over the smooth slabs and close to the col . |
| 2 | Many other institutes adopted a variety of the armed services funds as their mascot and held ‘ gift sales ’ , ‘ bring and buy ’ events and so on to raise money for their special fund . |
| 3 | Figure 8 shows the Utilities Screen and from here you can choose and run a variety of the helpful programs available in DOS5 . |
| 4 | Tate Bramald supplies its clients with a variety of the leading packages , but Mr Tate finds that the UK packages are all too often weak on the currency side . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) The general rule does not apply so far as a provision of the consolidating Acts gives effect to an amendment ( in pursuance of a recommendation of the Law Commission and , in some cases , the Scottish Law Commission ) . |
| 6 | It may also , for instance , include a statement by a minister on the effect of a provision in a private Members Bill . |
| 7 | In the case of a sale by auction the standard special conditions which incorporate , in turn , the standard conditions can be very simply adapted to the transaction , but remember to insert , in cases to which it will be applicable , a clause providing that the sale is subject to a reserve , unless you can rely on such a provision in the standard conditions , which by reference you incorporate in the special conditions of sale . |
| 8 | Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat . |
| 9 | Two women catechists said the progress was a bi-product of the catechetical courses which they and others organised — a two year long preparation of parents before the baptism of their children , two years before first Holy Communion and two years before Confirmation . |
| 10 | It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling , then a subaltern in the Scots Guards . |
| 11 | THE economy faces a severe slowdown and possibly a recession over the coming months . |
| 12 | A recession in the industrialised economies reduces demand and prices for most primary commodities ( tea , coffee , rubber , bauxite , oil , etc. ) which can have a disastrous impact on many LDCs . |
| 13 | In other words , if the assumption of rational expectations is correct we would expect that a regression of the two equations in equation ( 3.43 ) , using a large sample of observations , would produce estimates of γ and δ approximately equal to the expressions on the right-hand sides of equations ( 3.48a ) and ( 3.48b ) evaluated at the estimates of α and β . |
| 14 | Now , the economic costs attributable to the adversary system are not just seen as a function of the frequent reversals of ideologically motivated policies . |
| 15 | Surface structural analyses are done by measuring the intensities of the scattered or recoiled peaks in the TOF spectra as a function of the various angles involved . |
| 16 | A more intangible barrier , partly a function of the other factors , is " franchise " or reputation of existing firms , the perceived ability in the mind of the client to deliver top quality services . |
| 17 | It varies of course as a function of time but not as a function of the spatial coordinates . |
| 18 | The performance of an individual at work is a function of the following factors : |
| 19 | Using official strike dab from Ontario for the period 1958–1967 , Grant and Wallace ( 1991 ) conclude that strike violence is a function of the following variables : ( i ) the legislative environment , ( ii ) the sociopolitical context , ( iii ) the distribution of skills among the workforce ( and its corresponding degree of participation in the strike ) , and ( iv ) the strategies employed by the strikers and their employers . |
| 20 | For we can easily imagine a legislative structure that would produce compromise statutes mechanically , as a function of the different opinions about strict liability or racial discrimination or abortion among the various legislators , without any legislator being asked or required to vote for the compromise as a package . |
| 21 | Put simply , purchase behaviour will be a function of the different variables already analysed in this and the previous chapter , but will vary in emphasis and priority according to the stage reached by individual and family . |
| 22 | Following the lines laid down there , and using Bernstein 's work on class and language codes , we could say that a language of explicit meaning ( broadly speaking , the middle-class code ) is a language in which what is expressed is ‘ a function of the psychological qualities of the person ’ . |
| 23 | Attempting to predict the changes likely to take place in practices and in the world at large and their consequences for Institutional education policy , has been a function of the educational committees of the Institution and the centres of full-time education , all of whom have been addressing the question since early 1985 . |
| 24 | This is not merely a function of the relative strengths of the HSV-1 IE-3 and VZV gene 62 promoters ( 39 ) but could be attributable to either the relative strengths of their activating domains ( unknown at present ) or alternatively multiple 140k interactions with the promoter may have an additive effect , enhancing the efficiency of activation . |
| 25 | At the former there is a mini retrospective of the artist 's ‘ accumulations ’ ( earliest from 1962 , latest from last year ) while at the latter there is ‘ Cycles ’ not a meditation on the passing stages of an artist 's life but , more prosaically , about the leg-propelled two-wheeled conveyance . |
| 26 | Indeed many builders feel that UK exclusion will hinder the transfer of construction workers throughout the EC and that it is only a matter of time before , say , a German worker brings a case to the European courts on the basis of discrimination in employment rights when working in the UK . |
| 27 | Acne may be a case of a few spots and blackheads , or it can be a highly distressing skin disease with redness , inflammation , pimples and even scarring . |
| 28 | It 's just a case of it 's just a case of a few individuals or people with rank who think they 've go so much power they 're gon na press people |
| 29 | ‘ It was n't a case of the other children letting her win — they were really trying to beat her and they could n't . ’ |
| 30 | A case of the old domestics |