Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high level of linguistic competence is obviously an advantage but a flair for friendship is more important than an impeccable accent or a perfect lexicon . |
| 2 | This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ; |
| 3 | Earlier this week the house , known as the Boynes , was firebombed causing damge to an outbuilding and a garage . |
| 4 | For that reason alone , according to sources here , Mr Ortega 's summit game plan could come to naught , leaving the Sandinistas to fight an election and a war , and the peace process close to collapse . |
| 5 | party supported in an election and the type of newspaper read |
| 6 | It was the second longest period of party power , uninterrupted by either an election or a change of leadership , of this century . |
| 7 | Many of the key words of Derrida 's arguments are similarly polysemic and their polysemy is essential to his argument : his reading of Rousseau in Of Grammatology , for example , turns on the ambiguity of the word supplément which can mean both an addition and a substitute . |
| 8 | Lloyd George claimed that the pension was not intended to give full subsistence , merely an addition and an incentive to desirable private saving . |
| 9 | The basic rule of oppressive disability representation assumes the social non-worth of an impairment or the person with an impairment . |
| 10 | Both are bound up with the awareness and sensitivity aroused by looking at a flower or a tree ; an insect or a bird ; the environment in which they live . |
| 11 | Neither the eye of an insect or a human is likely to detect the deception until the mantis moves . |
| 12 | Small to medium ground-living birds , mostly with sober plumage , sexes alike , and moderately thin bills adapted to both an insect and a seed diet . |
| 13 | Indeed the national income accounts measure the value of goods and services produced in the economy ( gross domestic product ) by both an income and an expenditure method . |
| 14 | You will need an ink-pad and a piece of paper for each Brownie . |
| 15 | Any thought he had about Greek art was a thought about art per se : a Greek instance was not , for pragmatic purposes , an instance but the instance . |
| 16 | The judge added , at p. 143 , that if Woolwich had not paid there might have been an assessment or a writ ‘ with the result in either case of highly undesirable publicity for Woolwich if it had withheld the very large sums claimed by the revenue to be due ’ and that there was an understandable fear by Woolwich of damage to its reputation . |
| 17 | For a raw young MP to be confronted by Sage Bernal was an experience and a half . |
| 18 | The common use of man or mankind does also hide the fact that women have an experience and a history of their own . |
| 19 | They had established an intimacy and an affinity with the ocean which we can still only envy . |
| 20 | The epimeron is also sometimes divided into two sclerites by a transverse suture , giving an anepimeron and a katepimeron . |
| 21 | He muttered an invocation but the machine 's soul had perished and did not revive . |
| 22 | Market forces are not an ideology but a fact of life . |
| 23 | By superimposing on these techniques an ideology and a practice of self-expression , Cream 's music seems to establish a dialectical relationship between the two , articulating each via the other into a new position — a position , perhaps , of ‘ fraternal individualism ’ |
| 24 | Catholicism as an ideology and the Church as an institution were central to the strength of Spanish conservatism both before and during the Republic , thanks to the power not only of school , pulpit and press , but also of a large and comprehensive network of church-sponsored social , professional and farmers ' organizations within which much of the Catholic population was enmeshed . |
| 25 | Thus in the 1920s Walter Elliot argued that Conservatism was based on -an observation of life and not a priori reasoning' , while more recently Sir Ian Gilmour declared that Conservatism is ‘ not an ideology or a doctrine ’ . |
| 26 | To understand de Gaulle 's monarchy , one must begin with the man himself , since he believed so firmly that policy should reflect an individual will rather than an ideology or a process of political bargaining . |
| 27 | If an accused is misled or tricked into providing evidence ( whether it be an admission or the provision of fingerprints or medical evidence or some other evidence ) , the rule against self-incrimination … is likely to be infringed . |
| 28 | For the Labour Party , Mr Kaufman said that the report was ‘ an insult and an outrage ’ , while Mr David Steel for the Liberals is reported as having claimed that the report was ‘ totally inadequate ’ , and that ‘ The secret state is out of control and democracy is threatened . ’ |
| 29 | Robbie said doubtfully , unsure whether this was meant as an insult or a compliment , but he did n't choose to enlarge on his remark . |
| 30 | Is that an insult or a compliment ? |