Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 1 Feature material on cooking with a variety of the products in women 's magazines and in regional media . |
2 | At that time a variety of the women 's presses were mooting ideas for conventional anthologies of Black writing in the UK . |
3 | Whatever its market and size , a business will need to consider a variety of the services available . |
4 | The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 . |
5 | And if , in special circumstances , compliance with a provision of the Schedules would be inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view the directors must depart from that provision to the extent necessary , giving , in a note to the accounts , particulars of the departure and the reasons for , and effect of , it . |
6 | It is helpful to compare a chart of the phonemes of your own language with a similar chart of the language you are learning . |
7 | They were within half a cable of the rocks even now : the cliffs , dotted with perching gulls , towered above them , and the roar of breakers made conversation difficult . |
8 | One might quibble with these distinctions , but the proposal is simple : BSL is a language for conveying information and will be optimal where accurate and immediate knowledge is the goal ; methods imposed on this medium will be tailored to specific educational goals and these will be a function of the priorities of teachers , parents and society . |
9 | ( Moreover , the behaviour of the agency director in designing the schedule is itself a function of the incentives he faces . ) |
10 | If you bear in mind the fact that the wealth of data available makes even tighter analysis and cross-analysis solely a function of the limits of the computer , you may begin to appreciate what is not only possible , but is happening right now . |
11 | The lower status of general courses may be more a function of the students who take them than of their content and the association with ordinary rather than honours degrees . |
12 | The motivation to perform is seen as a function of the beliefs that individuals have concerning future rewards multiplied by the value they place on those rewards . |
13 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
14 | One consequence of the primacy of the metric equation is that the Gaussian curvature is a function of the coefficients in the metric equation . |
15 | Equation ( 5.4 ) is a respecification of the process driving the quantity of money : it assumes that the quantity of money in period t equals its value in period t - 1 plus a constant , g , plus a function of the shocks to aggregate demand in periods t - 1 and t - 2 . |
16 | A task has been allocated to the human operator and what he must do is a function of the needs of the hardware . |
17 | The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled . |
18 | The performances of the two groups of readers were then compared as a function of the features which might be predicted to increase the difficulty of the sentences . |
19 | The amount of radiation absorbed is a function of the concentrations of pigments and their arrangement in the chloroplasts . |
20 | A squadron of the planes will spend the week at their old base at RAF Fairford . |
21 | It is a case of the outlaws who have become outcasts staying in the outhouse . ’ |
22 | Sounds a bit of a balls-up . ’ |
23 | ‘ We had a bit of a knees-up last night . |
24 | He 's a bit of a ladies ' man , ’ he said , adding ‘ Nigella Lawson — she 's very tasty , nicer than in her picture . |
25 | ‘ He seems to have been a bit of a ladies ’ man — ’ |
26 | I 'm a bit of a clothes freak . |
27 | He helped form Darlington 's first rambling club the Rucksack Club and in 1942 formed a branch of the Ramblers Association in the North-East . |
28 | In the view of some linguistics , which was once a branch of the humanities , has already become a branch of cognitive science ; and it may be about to become a kind of big science , requiring large research organisations and equipment resources . |
29 | I also found a modest typed item : ‘ Newton or Easter Newton , as it was sometimes designated , was a possession of a branch of the Roses of Kilravock , having been rebuilt in about 1650 … ’ |
30 | Rather than defend the arts on the grounds that they are a branch of the sciences and therefore useful , I believe we should try to start again , attempting to lay on one side both the crude criterion of utility and the assumed category distinction between science and arts , itself in fact equally crude . |