Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had advocated an addition of either a half of the agency mark-up , which would produce a figure of forty seven thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and thirty four pence or alternatively a factor of twenty five percent which would produce a figure of forty five thousand one hundred and eighty eight pounds and forty pence . |
| 2 | It had been arranged that she should make a regular weekly visit in order to vaccinate all new puppies , do an inspection of all the animals already there , and be on call for any emergency . |
| 3 | Certainly we do take any standard effect to be an instance of such a uniform connection . |
| 4 | If the answer leads very naturally to the truth , it is nevertheless mistaken , as is shown by the philosophically familiar but evergreen fact that certain items constitute an instance of such a uniform connection or constant conjunction , but the second is not the effect of the first . |
| 5 | Although each causal circumstance and effect , likewise , is an instance of such a uniform connection , that is not its unique nature . |
| 6 | These are the only tangibles upon which an assessment of such a profession can be made . |
| 7 | A sort of paring-down : in my analysis a surrender of the crisis-and-clarity urge , and an unloading of all the consecutions of theory upon others , principally Kirillov and Shatov . |
| 8 | He ( I 'm sure of the pronoun , since all too few women carry the initials C ENG , MIEE , after their names ) refers to the Chinese proposal that the combined pull of the four giant outer planets influences our weather , and objects to using the term ‘ synod ’ , meaning an alignment of all the planets to describe this event . |
| 9 | This may simply involve consulting an index of all the sites , finds and monuments in the area , but if such an index does not exist , extensive research in museums and libraries may be necessary to compile such an index before any work in the field takes place . |
| 10 | Some weeks ago we sent a draft of a similar digest to a few Age Concern groups in order that we gain an appreciation of such a service and whether we should develop it further . |
| 11 | This is a pity , for arguably an appreciation of both the importance of the social construction of feminity and masculinity and the extent to which fundamental concepts are gendered is necessary before the process by which men and women 's thinking about marriage and divorce can be understood . |
| 12 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 13 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 14 | By an Act of 1934 an adopted child acquires the same rights as a natural child to benefits under what was then the Workmen 's Compensation Act 1925 ( this Act is now replaced by the Social Security Act 1975 ) . |
| 15 | I stood on Magdalen Bridge in the dying day , and the sky , mother-of-pearl streaked with violet and awash with rose and yellow light , gave me a tightness at the throat ; it seemed an intimation of all the beauty and sorrow of the world . |
| 16 | He read out Christine 's part , giving an imitation of all the inflections in her voice , at the same time prompting those around him when they forgot their lines . |
| 17 | ‘ What is needed is an event that takes an overview of all the dynamics of the IT industry and focuses each aspect back to the key issue of how this provides business benefit . ’ |
| 18 | A decent , upright man , he is an epitome of all the military virtues . |
| 19 | Therefore , under the commander theory , the financial report of the organization is an aggregation of all the stewardship and performance reports for each responsibility centre . |
| 20 | Britain needed an economy of all the talents . |
| 21 | Out of the blue came invitations from well-known actresses begging the aces to spend their next leave in Paris with them ; eulogizing sonnets and adoring letters ( Germany 's Oswald Boelcke received an average of twenty-thirty a day ) poured in . |
| 22 | A footnote in the report of the select committee records that there were 2,927 mandatory life sentence cases in a period of slightly more than 23 years , an average of 127 a year . |
| 23 | The nineteenth-century agricultural historian Youatt calculated that in the second half of the eighteenth century every Londoner purchased an average of half a pound of meat a day — more than twice as much as the average in Paris or Brussels . |
| 24 | An example of such a system would be the Tuareg of North Africa where a ruling class controls large numbers of slaves but where no centralized authority existed traditionally . |
| 25 | An example of such a conversion , in which the former windmill is only partly recognisable , has recently been completed at Ramsey , Cambridgeshire ( Fig 54 ) . |
| 26 | An example of such a calculation would be one which compared the images on the two retinas , and searched for differences which would provide information about relative distances . |
| 27 | An example of such a clause is the following which was found in the Foreign Compensation Act 1950 , a statute setting up a body known as the Foreign Compensation Commission : ‘ The determination by the commission of any application made to them under this Act shall not be called in question in any court of law . ’ |
| 28 | An example of such a computerized search aid is the CONIT — COnnector for Network Information Transfer developed by Marcus at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems , MIT . |
| 29 | An example of such a sheet is shown opposite , but the exact symptoms written in the left-hand column will vary for each child . |
| 30 | Their ideal of endogamy , which treats the marriage exchange as if it were non-existent , is an example of such a mechanism for achieving peace . |