Example sentences of "an [noun sg] and [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is both an advantage and a disadvantage of committee decisions ;
2 Earlier this week the house , known as the Boynes , was firebombed causing damge to an outbuilding and a garage .
3 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 .
4 party supported in an election and the type of newspaper read
5 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 .
6 Lloyd George claimed that the pension was not intended to give full subsistence , merely an addition and an incentive to desirable private saving .
7 Luckily , he reacted in an instant and the Cessna pulled hard into a steep right hand turn .
8 He saw the long lashes drop for an instant and the lips contract fearfully , and laughed .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 You will need an ink-pad and a piece of paper for each Brownie .
12 Once again , it may be helpful to distinguish between objective evidence obtained from an assessment and the conclusions which are drawn from this .
13 John 's case also suggests how the perceptions of those professionals involved at an early stage of an assessment and the actions that follow may influence , direct or constrain the later perceptions and actions of other professionals .
14 This consultative document explains the regulations and describes the making of an assessment and the measures that may be taken to remove or reduce the risk of injury .
15 For a raw young MP to be confronted by Sage Bernal was an experience and a half .
16 The common use of man or mankind does also hide the fact that women have an experience and a history of their own .
17 They had established an intimacy and an affinity with the ocean which we can still only envy .
18 The epimeron is also sometimes divided into two sclerites by a transverse suture , giving an anepimeron and a katepimeron .
19 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 ’
20 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 .
21 I was using an ear-plug and the lads could not hear it — I had gone to church alone .
22 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 . ’
23 Boyfriend Barry Pitt , himself an ex-policeman and the man she plans to marry , was at her bedside when she woke after an emergency six-hour operation .
24 THEY had a homosexual , a nymphomaniac , an alcoholic and a Cockney crook — but they did n't reckon for a serial killer .
25 It is found , however , on some figures in an Amazonomachy and a Centauromachy on a big volute-krater ( fig. 109 ) by a less talented companion of the Niobid Painter known as the Painter of the Woolly Satyrs , in whose work too it is abnormal .
26 He had earned US$13 an hour plus ample benefits under USX but under the sub-contractor he gets just US$5 an hour and no benefits .
27 We have listened to the Secretary of State speak for an hour and a minute , and during those 61 minutes never once did he utter a word about the central feature of the Bill — the doctrinaire destruction of Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and the privatisation of the national and local schools inspectorates .
28 An hour and a bit later the hearse stopped in a town called Cromcruach .
29 Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half .
30 He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions .
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