Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We should ask national income estimators conceptual questions such as : which of the activities a farm family does for itself without payment , such as haircutting for example , have you included in the national income ? ’ , says a leading development economist ( Seers 1979 : 15 ) . |
| 2 | The disciplines a Designer works by demand some very special qualities — in effect they demand a specialist in many wide-ranging fields , coupled with virtual Sherlock Holmes powers of observation . |
| 3 | For the purpose of the Acts a dealer is ‘ a person who in the normal course of his business attends sales by auction for the purpose of purchasing goods with a view to reselling them . ’ |
| 4 | The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions . |
| 5 | In the mid-1970s a strain of Bt was found in Israel that was active against Diptera and in particular against mosquitoes and blackflies . |
| 6 | It started with Q selling DEADMEAT in the clubs a while back . |
| 7 | Recipes disseminated by such bodies — one does appreciate that in the case of the Trappists a spokesman is essential — are bound to be suspect , but not all the public relations cookery experts are as cruelly antihumanitarian as the lady who publicized the traditional Welsh trifle for St David 's Day to be made with one tin of fruit salad and one packet of Birds Pineapple Instant Whip , a leek confected from angelica , piped cream , cocoa powder and desiccated coconut adding the finishing festive touches . |
| 8 | The full version of this dictionary lists all the meanings a word has had , with quotations to illustrate them . |
| 9 | I have to think that because , with limited space , I have to want to give all of the artists a chance to show as often as possible . |
| 10 | Second half goals from Dmitry Radchenko and Andrei Piatnitski rounded off a comfortable Spartak Moscow performance to deny the Reds a place in the Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-final . |
| 11 | To be enforced in the courts a contract must not be illegal . |
| 12 | The identification of non-natural user with conduct creating an abnormal risk that ought not to be borne by the public has given to the courts a device for determining liability in accordance with what they consider to be public policy . |
| 13 | ‘ Been feeding the ducks a lot , ’ Bill says . |
| 14 | It can also give to the Germans a sense that they have a particular mission to fulfil in life . |
| 15 | Her political and geographical position in the centre of Europe gives the Germans a sense of special national responsibility for the future of the continent . |
| 16 | Maybe they think they can get the riders a bit cheaper or , you know , some of the boys might be panicking about a team spot somewhere but erm you know , I think it 's just the way that erm the way the world 's going at the moment and erm you know , I 'm certainly not erm too worried about erm you know , things at the moment really . |
| 17 | The court has the power under section 214 of the Insolvency Act to impose personal liability on a director for the debts a company that has gone into liquidation where the director is guilty of ‘ wrongful trading ’ . |
| 18 | To attract the birds a mealworm was placed in the centre of the box and then , as the bird alighted to attack the mealworm , the box was illuminated to reveal a pair of eye-spots or some other pattern . |
| 19 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 20 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 21 | Charles III 's reforms improved the quality of the imperial civil service while denying to the creoles a share in the system — perhaps because , as Floridablanca maintained , creoles were too enmeshed in local graft to be trusted . |
| 22 | The Lions scrum was consistently wheeled , but they put their act together twice in the 21st and 30th minutes , a pushover try being prevented illegally and the referee awarding the Lions a penalty try that Hastings converted . |
| 23 | ‘ Was that you in the woods a while ago ? ’ asked Lydia . |
| 24 | In my neck of the woods a boat to Ireland for a stay with the Dublin cousins was quite often handy . |
| 25 | An NLA session on Nov. 25 gave the proposals a second reading after agreeing to drop most of the controversial provisions , including the right of the Senate to participate in the selection of the Prime Minister and other important issues , but senators would still be able to vote on no confidence motions . |
| 26 | In July 1908 he recruited him to the Board of Trade with the responsibility of making the proposals a reality . |
| 27 | Best to give the tablets a chance to do their stuff , ’ she advised . |
| 28 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 29 | Anyone can set his newspaper in the New York Times lettering style without paying the Times a nickle . |
| 30 | The article should appear in the Times a couple of days after I get back to New York . |