Example sentences of "of a [adj] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glass is an amorphous substance which has properties of a solid and the structure of a liquid . |
| 2 | The piece prepared by the six young musicians includes a crisp packet being scrunched , playing cards flicked with the skill of a sharper and the zip on 14-year-old Sunjeev Singh 's bag buzzing backwards and forwards . |
| 3 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 4 | Group testing received its first big boost when the US entered World War 1 in 1917 to provide for the rapid classification of a million and a half recruits who needed to be assigned to suitable roles in the military machine . |
| 5 | Tonight we find out what the effects would be of a seventeen and a half per cent tax on books and newspapers . |
| 6 | Such combinations of a religious and a scientific approach to biology are particularly obvious in impressionistic work of this kind . |
| 7 | Morland is the subject of a one and a half million pound bid from a Suffolk based company , Greene King . |
| 8 | It consists of a two and a half foot length of narrow clear plastic tube which is fixed to your cleaner by means of an adaptor . |
| 9 | He also admitted fingering the private parts of a two and a half year old child for whom he was baby sitting . |
| 10 | If you sold to the target on a on a revenue there of a two and a half thousand , which is one of the smaller surgeries , we will pay thirty percent on all of that right ? |
| 11 | ‘ It was a hell of a standard and an enormous challenge . |
| 12 | The estimates of a 1 and a 2 are a source of the substitution and income derivatives in equation ( 12–1 ) , which , when combined with the mean values for H , W and Yin the sample , can give the three elasticities in ( 12–3 ) . |
| 13 | Although still some months short of his fifteenth birthday , Richard had already discovered from experience that there is a critical relationship between the piquancy of a secret and the number of people who can keep it . |
| 14 | It is possible to express any square matrix as the sum of a symmetric and a skew-symmetric matrix ; this is shown by the identity |
| 15 | If each family was to have the services of a senior and a junior counsel , the costs would be enormous , and at that stage no one knew what the position would be regarding the question of Legal Aid . |
| 16 | There 's an ecumenical consensus nowadays surely that it is by faith and baptism that one is made a Christian or becomes a Christian and we 've also inherited , many of us , another rite , with its origins in the New Testament , valuable in the making of a christian and the three strands in confirmation set out in the report before us would certainly be owned by all of us . |
| 17 | We find similar striking juxtapositions in the finale of the ‘ Jupiter Symphony , where the contrast between the signs helps set off two of the five main motives of the movement : the angular four-note motive with its downward leaps of a 5th and a 7th is marked throughout the movement by strokes , and the linear , stepwise ascending six-note motive is marked throughout by dots . |
| 18 | SUMMARY : The thermal histories of a Palaeozoic and a Tertiary coal have been investigated by laboratory simulation experiments in which a suite of samples , with natural maturities ranging from 0.4–3.0% vitrinite reflectance ( VR ) , were heated under identical conditions of time and temperature . |
| 19 | Before mixing , one is the upper state of a fundamental and the other the upper state of an overtone or combination band . |
| 20 | Then I heard the snap of a lighter and a cloud of blue smoke came out of the doorway , followed by a rattle sound . |
| 21 | ‘ When you have the killing of a Marine and the beating of the navy man , some response was certainly called for , ’ said Mr Edwin Smith , a University of Southern California law professor . |
| 22 | They were designed nationally , were implemented on a national basis , and have benefited interest groups of a national and an international nature . |
| 23 | However , the potential political pitfalls involved in any attempt to confront the contradictions of a socialist and a Catholic Nicaragua were clearly demonstrated by the events of the pope 's 1982 visit . |
| 24 | It is plain that the notions of a superior and a supreme criterion merely refer to a relative place on a scale and do not import any notion of legally unlimited legislative power . |