Example sentences of "and [adv] an [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped short as the two women stared up at him , and suddenly an expression of relief washed the tension from his strongly chiselled features . |
| 2 | Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias . |
| 3 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |
| 4 | The song is but brief , and perhaps an appreciation of Kerman 's penetrating , if occasionally purple , dissection and minute analysis would have been much easier to grasp had all the music been reproduced . |
| 5 | Considerably more detail is given in Chapter 7 , and only an outline of the major points as they contribute to understanding of this approach to soil erosion appears here . |
| 6 | This is an extremely complex field , and only an indication of three major provisions of the Act can be attempted here . |
| 7 | The selection of eighty-one canvases and other works of art has been made by Nicholas Serota , director of the Tate Gallery and long an admirer of Ryman 's work , which he showed at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1977 , and Robert Storr , Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art , New York . |
| 8 | Three great volleys of shot at the interring of the body , and lastly an herald of arms proclaimed his titles . ’ |
| 9 | They should , however , be informed by principles and insights drawn from linguistics — for example , the idea that language in all its diversity can be approached in a non-prescriptive , non-judgmental way and that it is possible to treat systematically and objectively an aspect of human life which is often the focus of emotive and prejudiced reactions . |
| 10 | If you are sitting behind a desk with a degree from Trinity and not an ounce of ‘ a Banker ’ to boast about it probably has all the hallmarks of a great idea . |
| 11 | Shelley had to admit that he was a fine example of good health , with a light supple walk , bright clear eyes , a thrusting lean jaw and chin , and not an ounce of fat to spoil the contours of that shirt . |
| 12 | ‘ The child is a person and not an object of concern ’ ( Recommendation 2 ) . |
| 13 | It is to be hoped that in the light of the Cleveland Report 's comment that ‘ the child is a person and not an object of concern ’ ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 , p.245 ) that urgent efforts will be made to ensure that the child 's views and perceptions of practice are articulated via sensitively designed research . |
| 14 | I believe that is the case , and I believe that again is a reflection of us as adults erm and not an indictment of teachers . |
| 15 | I believe that is the case , and I believe that again is a reflection of us as adults erm and not an indictment of teachers . |
| 16 | Although Chang Tsai 's comparison with water shows clearly that the ch'i is a continuum and not an aggregate of atoms , the analogy with matter is so deep in Le Gall 's preconceptions that he assumes the component atoms to be implicit in the word ch'i of the Chinese text . |
| 17 | Even so , where money changes hands , it is part of an exchange and thus an expression of the social relationship which exists between the two individuals concerned . |
| 18 | The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred . |
| 19 | Nigel had absolutely no intention of giving up any of his rights , and thus an examination of social security and tax together was impossible . |
| 20 | Thus in chapter thirty he restates the threefold division of the spiritual life which he starts in Scale 1 : the basic faith without any inner experience of God , a felt love of Christ and finally an experience of the spiritual reality of God . |
| 21 | Serene , beautiful , and home AN air of serenity surrounds the place . |
| 22 | First recorded in 1960 and possibly an offshoot of the Fishbourne colony . |
| 23 | Results of other research on 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa also showed that , " It ( the effect of maternal age of infant mortality ) is associated with selectivity in respect to social and economic factors , though it is principally and directly an effect of physiological determinants " . |
| 24 | The detective novel is partly a novel , an exploration of some facet of human existence , and partly an account of an act of detection used to keep the reader reading , to provide the essential storyline . |
| 25 | This was partly a poor law development , partly the extension of the services of the voluntary hospitals , and partly an aspect of the growth of insurance against misfortune widely practised by the more prosperous of the working classes . |
| 26 | I am a professional artist and also an officer of the RSPCA and a very active member of wildlife conservation organisations . |
| 27 | Concern for people requires an understanding of what will motivate individuals to work harder and more effectively , and also an understanding of what can make a work group as a whole improve its motivation and norms of working . |
| 28 | If we could know both where a particle was and also what it was doing , it would then have to be in a state which was simultaneously an eigenstate of the position operator x and also an eigenstate of the momentum operator p . |
| 29 | The study involved the analysis of environmental responses in two industrial areas — the domestic fabric detergent sector and plastics waste in the automobile sector — and also an investigation of companies which have been successfully innovated clean technologies . |
| 30 | One consequence of this cultural paradigm , and also an illustration of the ‘ technology-is-politically-neutral ’ myth , can be found in industrial and other enterprises . |