Example sentences of "and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK Director and organiser of the Conference , Peter Johnson , said , ‘ For many , the day provided a reaffirmation of the vision for ACET and a marvellous sense of unity . |
| 2 | These include : pedal cycles for a clinic allowing nurses to get out to outlying villages ; health care kits to help with the care of patients in their own homes ; training for different agencies ; and a variety of education initiatives . |
| 3 | TWO AND A HALF years ago I was diagnosed as being HIV positive . |
| 4 | No. 2245302 and a registered charity No. 299293 . |
| 5 | I feel that this is reflected not just in the increased knowledge of the students but also in a change of attitude and a few greater degrees of empathy . ’ |
| 6 | However , we are able to enter the 1991/92 financial year with a firm financial base , a strong management team and a greater than ever determination to be an effective caring Christian response to this global epidemic wherever it is most needed . |
| 7 | On the other hand it can bring about reconciliation between families and friends and a new appreciation of life 's true values . |
| 8 | In April AI learned that warrants had been issued for the arrest of two police officers and a civilian in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales . |
| 9 | He had first been found guilty of setting fire to an armoured personnel carrier commandeered by students and a car during the 19898 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing . |
| 10 | The 1989 figures indicate a reversal of this trend with 276 death setences passed and a sharp reduction of commutations to 23 . |
| 11 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 12 | it has an ex-RAF man as its Secretary and a Major and a Wing Commander among its participants . |
| 13 | At group level , the days have gone when three prisoners per group ( one from the West , the East and a non-aligned country ) were obligatory . |
| 14 | Nowadays , impartiality need not be expressed quite so crudely , and a look at any group 's case load will show that a balance is always maintained . |
| 15 | Full-scale Amnesty sections are now operational in 44 countries , with active groups in another 16 , and a total membership of more than one million spread across 150 countries . |
| 16 | In October 1990 , Hamadi Jebali , who is a member of the executive council of Hizb al-Nahda , had received a six month 's suspended sentence and a fine of 1500 dinars for publishing an article entitled ‘ The people of the State or the State of the people ? ’ in Al-Fajr in June 1990 . |
| 17 | On 6 March he was transferred to the prison infirmary suffering from skin problems and a dramatic fall in his blood sugar level resulting from the earlier hunger-strike . |
| 18 | She is a small , passionate , very striking young woman with deep shining black eyes and a glittering smile , talking ten to the dozen in a strong Moroccan accent . |
| 19 | Recently , an anonymous note , clearly composed from a dialogue between a prisoner and a sympathetic guard , was smuggled out . |
| 20 | This first cell is now empty , and a second , and a third . |
| 21 | This first cell is now empty , and a second , and a third . |
| 22 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |
| 23 | Art Now had started life as a lecture series , but Read was a frequent reviewer of exhibitions , and a contributor to the Listener , from which some short essays were published under the title The Meaning of Art . |
| 24 | A subtle mind and a firm editorial hand were essential ingredients in the success of The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich , first published in 1950 . |
| 25 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 26 | Occasionally a book has almost achieved immortality , like John Ruskin 's Stones of Venice , but even more modest books can call up the spirit of a place ; and a private letter may illuminate both a person and a work of art . |
| 27 | The author started his career in the Victoria and Albert Museum , where there is an important group of this sculpture ; his book had a double origin in a museum exhibition and a series of lectures . |
| 28 | A decline of the sculptor 's reputation derived not only from the political discredit into which the regimes of the years before 1914 had fallen , but also from a distaste for allegory , and a revulsion from naturalist sculpture ( which the young Brancusi expressed forcefully as a dislike for ‘ beefsteak ’ ) . |
| 29 | The topics include the first design , the sculptor 's aims , the carving of the work , the memorial 's defenders and attackers , and a final general reflection on the standing of great art and how it is likely to provoke opposition . |
| 30 | Comparisons of the sculpture with other contemporary works are included , and a summary conclusion implies the eventual security of the controversial sculpture in its Hyde Park home . |