Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] an " in BNC.

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1 Recognising the constraints , it is still important for institutions involved in training personnel who will have an educational role in rural areas to emphasise the potential which the rural environment has in educational terms and to understand the social and cultural characteristics of such an environment .
2 Sealink Stena Line is an enthusiastic sponsor of the museum 's new souvenir guide book and are delighted to be supporters of such an impressive collection of outdoor folk and transport exhibits .
3 I found my second Civil War relic by detecting on the slight traces of such an earthwork after reading the above passage in the book .
4 On May 25 the Taiwanese Board of Foreign Trade released figures which showed that trade between Taiwan and eastern Europe had amounted to US$194,100,000 during the first four months of 1991 an 82.4 per cent increase over the same period in 1990 .
5 By neglecting the harmonics of current an error is introduced into the analysis , but the next Section shows how this error can be corrected by evaluating the pull-out torque at low speeds .
6 Plan every move carefully , for the twenty minutes of half an hour available to you will flash by , and seem like seconds .
7 The dangers of such an approach have been seen in comparable work with children and families .
8 The dangers of such an approach can be seen at its most extreme in Gordon Rattray Taylor 's neo-Freudian interpretation of Sex in History : ‘ The history of civilisation is the history of a long warfare between the dangerous and powerful drives and the systems of taboos and inhibitions which man has erected to control them ’ .
9 ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of such an organisation … and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal … has accepted responsibility for his activities ; …
10 ‘ an appointed representative whose principal … is a member of ( a recognised self-regulating organisation ) and is subject to the rules of such an organisation … in carrying on the investment business in respect of which his principal or each of his principals has accepted responsibility for his activities ; …
11 The phrase ‘ is subject to the rules of such an organisation ’ qualify the principal in that case , not the appointed representative .
12 Following the lead of a municipal councillor and amateur photographer named Lampue , who had written an open letter to Monsieur Berard , Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Fine Arts , in the Mercure de France , a Socialist deputy , Monsieur Jean Louis Breton , demanded that measures be taken to prevent the Cubists from exhibiting at the Salon d'Automne : ‘ It is absolutely inadmissible that our national palaces should be used for manifestations of such an obviously anti-artistic and anti-national kind . ’
13 These discussions failed through the basic problem of lack of resources to fund the operations of such an organisation .
14 Indeed , Althusser claims to identify the origins of such an attitude in the law ; he suggests that the ideological notion of the legal subject as the owner of property was taken over by Kant and Descartes and transformed into the philosophical categories of subject and object .
15 So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies .
16 While in the short and medium term ( up to 3 years ) such an approach does not seem to compromise the results of transplantation , what the long term effects of such an approach will be are unclear .
17 Although the report conceded that " the accident was not survivable " , it urged the adoption of more effective measures by " which the effects of such an explosion might be mitigated " .
18 However , the advantages of such an arrangement must be weighed against the potential disadvantages of there not being particular nurses who get to know the at-risk patients really well .
19 What are the advantages of such an approach ?
20 Three potential advantages of such an approach have been demonstrated by research projects and other developments in recent years .
21 Advantages of such an approach would be that reaction functions for policy are obtained in feedback format , that due attention is paid to dynamics and that explicit specification of a welfare criterion is avoided .
22 Yet there are considerable advantages of such an approach .
23 Apart from anything else , it leads us into several fascinating areas , such as etymology , linguistic fashion , verbal humour , and the expression of gender — the last two being particularly difficult roads to travel along , and where the bones of many an unwary linguist can be found along the way .
24 But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages .
25 But in the circumstances of 1483 an immediate accession may have seemed to offer real advantages .
26 The functions of such an enquiry would be to appraise ministers of the full facts surrounding the accident following an investigation of the causes of the accident .
27 Yet the fact that many primitive peoples regulate interpersonal relations with a fair degree of predictability and humanity , without the help of a centralized political system , is one that most anthropologists would now endorse ; however , unlike Engels , they do this without pointing out the political implications of such an observation .
28 The implications of such an omission may be serious , since legal action is rarely possible without the evidence of a ‘ stat ’ .
29 about the implications of such an action .
30 The Fund covers the overseas branch offices of firms of solicitors , and the overseas branch offices of MNPs having 75% or more solicitor principals ; the indemnity contributions of such an MNP will be calculated on a world-wide basis .
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