Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mid-1970s an argument for the existence of a black hole at the Galactic Centre came from the discovery of a γ -ray line at 511keV ( ref. 78 ) attributed to the annihilation of electrons and positrons from the general direction of the nucleus . |
| 2 | Yet at the weekend , when the clocks went forward an hour at 1am , the police in Darlington moved in and closed the clubs an hour early . |
| 3 | Leyhill prison on the Gloucestershire Avon border is as far from the popular conception of a jail as you can get.Modern buildings cluster around borders boasting blooms that many public parks would be hard pressed to match.Leyhill is an open prison … the last port of call for inmates nearing the end of their sentences.A hundred prisoners work on the nearly forty acres of lawns , borders and market gardens.Their skills won them a silver medal at Chelsea for this display of garden design.And at Leyhill , they 've created a spectacular show … with drifts of brightly coloured pelargoniums competing for attention with giant cannas … and a fine show of roses.New borders are being created all the time … giving the prisoners an opportunity to express themselves and learn techniques that could help them go straight when they 're released : |
| 4 | The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years . |
| 5 | Prior to the meetings an agreement had been signed in Moscow on Oct. 5 by Camdessus and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev establishing a special association between the Fund and the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Calder Hall Training Manager who was project manager for the installation at both sites , said : ‘ These computers give the operators an opportunity to experience potential events in a realistic simulation and are capable of continuous modifications , development and expansion . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd better give the lads an 'and , ’ he said , nudging Freddie . |
| 8 | Edward 's absence from England at the siege of Calais gave the Scots an opportunity to assist their French ally by invading the northern counties . |
| 9 | In 1326 Scotland and France had concluded a new alliance , the Treaty of Corbeil , under which the French , while not being required to take military action on behalf of the Scots in any future conflict with England , agreed to give them diplomatic support , while the French obtained from the Scots an agreement to attack England in the event of war between the French and the English . |
| 10 | A clause which merely imposes on the parties an obligation to renegotiate prices from time to time , once an initial period has elapsed , will simply turn the agreement , on the lapse of the initial period , into an agreement to agree , which is then void for uncertainty . |
| 11 | The justices declined to make the interim care order and made two prohibited steps orders under section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 without giving the parties an opportunity to make representations as to whether such orders were appropriate . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although justices had an overriding duty to investigate the proposals advanced by the parties notwithstanding that they had been fully agreed , the profundity of that investigation should reflect the reality that there was consensus between the parties , particularly when one party was a local authority with statutory duties and another the child 's guardian ad litem , and any period during which justices reserved their decision or reasoned judgment should be kept to a minimum ; that if justices , having fulfilled their duty to make an independent investigation of terms proposed by consent , came to the conclusion that other terms should be imposed on the parties , they should indicate the terms they were minded to impose and give the parties an opportunity to make submissions on them ; and that , in all the circumstances , the order should be varied to provide that there would be no contact with the father on the basis that the local authority would continue to perform its statutory duty to review each six months and that the half-sister would be afforded reasonable contact ( post , pp. 277B–F , 278C–D ) . |
| 13 | He is not bound to afford the parties an opportunity to tender evidence or submissions ; and , even if a right to do so is conferred upon them by the terms of the lease , it is doubtful whether the expert need pay any attention to them . |
| 14 | Though it was phrased as a suggestion , Nathan 's rasping tone made the words an order . |
| 15 | Some weeks later the plaintiffs sent the defendants an invoice for £3,783.50 , relying on a clause in their standard terms which provided that if the transparencies were not returned within 14 days , a holding charge and a fee of £5 per transparency per day would be charged . |
| 16 | ( 9 ) If the bidder is proposing to offer consideration shares then , unless it already has sufficient authorised but unissued share capital and the appropriate directors ' authority to allot such shares , it will need to pass ordinary resolutions increasing its authorised share capital and granting the directors an authority under CA 1985 , s80 . |
| 17 | The Republic 's continued dependence upon the Soviet Union guaranteed the Communists an influence within Republican Spain that the pragmatic premier could do little to resist . |
| 18 | For the finance community , what they 've got to do , too , is take a longer term view about projects and give the companies an opportunity to grow and ride the pitfalls and the the peaks and troughs . |
| 19 | In the Mercers an assessment of £100 , or even £200 , was appropriate for a liveryman ; in the Merchant Taylors , Haberdashers and ( perhaps ) Grocers , £40 ; for Drapers , Fishmongers , Goldsmiths and Skinners , approximately £20 ; and as little as £5 in the remaining three . |
| 20 | Mohamed claimed that " the anti-tropical timber activists see in the Penans an opportunity to put a human face to their campaign for temperate timber . |
| 21 | Over the years an archive of find spots has been collected and distribution maps can be drawn . |
| 22 | Burleigh itself had been founded — no , started — between the wars , had survived the Depression ( as the South of England middle classes in general had so signally managed to coast blithely through the Depression ) and had offered over the years an alternative to the Grammar , Secondary Modern and Technical Schools of the town of Cullbridge . |
| 23 | In broadcasts monitored in London , they have told their listeners that ‘ the centres and actions of Moral Re-Armament must be destroyed , because the absolute standards of honesty , purity , unselfishness and love which they present , taken singly or together , offer to the workers an alternative to the class struggle as a means of transforming society ’ . |
| 24 | The same could be said of the TSB while if you sell shares at such low prices that they guarantee the buyers an instant and spectatular profit then a lot of people are going to say : ‘ Thank you very much indeed ’ . |
| 25 | After putting them on the rail the sellers sent the buyers an invoice stating ‘ At sole risk of purchaser after putting fish on rail here . ’ |
| 26 | The interviewee has to assume that all the questions an interviewer asks are asked with a reason , although some may seem irrelevant and some unnecessarily personal . |
| 27 | This is not at all to say that there is among the professions an animus against the industrial co-operative as incorporated body for doing business . |
| 28 | Each company would employ a small number of clerical workers who would take care of all the dealings an enterprise had with the world outside . |
| 29 | The shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke , was given a polite , if muted , response when he called the sackings an affront to decency and justice but stopped short of endorsing a call for a national strike . |
| 30 | The agreement ( Clause 11 ) will specifically impose on the partners an obligation to do all things necessary to ensure that the firm 's books are in order and that all proper information is available for the firm 's accountants . |