Example sentences of "an [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cost is one of the major factors for churches in deciding between an electronic and a pipe instrument . |
| 2 | Exceptional restructuring costs resulted in an overall loss for the year on both an historical and a replacement cost basis . |
| 3 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 4 | International Relations began — and , many would say , remains — more of an inter-discipline than a discipline . |
| 5 | But in another sense they raise a much more serious issue , one likely to arise in many jurisdictions whenever the defendant is not an individual but a corporation or some other form of association ; and it will be recognised that a very great proportion of international litigation does involve corporate defendants . |
| 6 | The effect of both these procedures is that the defaulting party has 21 days in which to make the payment , following which the party making the demand can present a bankruptcy petition against an individual or a winding-up petition against a company . |
| 7 | A book is allocated to an individual or a project leader for team use . |
| 8 | The central bank announced that a two-tier exchange rate system would be in operation as from Feb. 19 , 1990 , comprising an official and a market exchange rate . |
| 9 | A Santa Monica health club is so far the only place where Americans can switch E for O. In Hungary , however , such matters are more of an imperative than a luxury ; over 10 per cent of the country 's deaths are pollution-related . |
| 10 | Formalism , as Eikhenbaum makes plain in his summary of its principles , was neither an aesthetic nor a methodology ; it was ‘ characterized only by the attempt to create an independent science of literature which studies specifically literary material ’ ( 1965 : 103 ) . |
| 11 | But a librarian , more likely to be an Adonis-type than a Boar or a Goddess , might be tempted to catalogue this book under ‘ Hughes ’ rather than under ‘ Shakespeare ’ . |
| 12 | Octogesima Adveniens ( 1971 ) on the 80th anniversary of Rerum Novarum was not an encyclical but a letter to Cardinal Maurice Roy , then president of International Justice and Peace . |
| 13 | Being both an exotic and a carnivore , it has started out with a double disadvantage , and sections of the rural population hate it with an intensity normally reserved for foxes or , worse , polecats . |
| 14 | Reed was built on an overgenerous scale , bull-necked and bulging in his grey pinstripe ; Wycliffe , slight of build , and rather pale , was more likely to be taken for an academic than a policeman ; hard to believe that he had served a tough apprenticeship on the beat in a Midland city . |