Example sentences of "of a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our relations from now on are strictly those of a prisoner and a warder . |
| 2 | As with many successful products there was always the possibility of a sequel and Collector 's Edition II duly appeared earlier this year . |
| 3 | All beds are made up of a mattress and a base which should ideally be bought together . |
| 4 | What becomes the English language starts as the dialect of a minority and is imposed upon the majority , usually by force , with legal punishments for those who refuse the schooling which will induct them in the national language . |
| 5 | The relationship between the scope and substantive provisions of a Convention and rules of private international law is highly complex and can be treated only briefly here . |
| 6 | I believe that the creation of the universe and all that that involves , is still a mystery and forms no part of the conception of a god and a corresponding religion that can fulfil the human need . |
| 7 | Many of them , for example , were supposed to have been born of a god and a virgin . |
| 8 | In the case of a bridal couple the ideology is that during the initiatory phase of their marriage the groom and his bride are playing out the roles of a god and a goddess ; when they resume their life as ordinary mortals their dangerous divinity must be removed . ) |
| 9 | The son of a furniture and domestic appliance merchant , Charles Garrett was born on 1 April 1932 in the small Texas town of Lufkin . |
| 10 | Implicit information , or " know-how " , is that information which is an integral part of a skill and can be acquired only by apprenticeship from an expert . |
| 11 | Now one of the features of Microsoft Word is that a only lets you work with text which is what is called selected and if you actually move the cursor down a bit so that it 's not at the beginning of a document and then we 'll follow our way through these various selecting text keys which are outlined in that paragraph , section three six one . |
| 12 | The first typist writes a page of a document and hands it to his neighbour . |
| 13 | The occasion that brought the Know Nothings back to life in June was a 60in x 40in Cibachrome print of a wood and plastic crucifixion aswim in the artist 's , Andre Serrano 's , urine . |
| 14 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 15 | Rabbits have been known to live on the edge of a wood and regularly swim a brook to feed in the fields beyond . |
| 16 | As a member of a Faith and Justice group in Burnley I knew Father Corcoran before he returned to Kenya in 1986 . |
| 17 | Delivery of a certificated transfer is treated by a buyer and by the company as equivalent to delivery of a transfer and the relevant certificate . |
| 18 | He is a role model of a gentleman and of how contentment can be found in being a gentleman . |
| 19 | Note the family crest of a crown and an eight-pointed star , symbolizing their alleged descent from one of the three kings . |
| 20 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 21 | ‘ I can only do it when we 're in the middle of a conversation and you look at me speculatively and then say something anodyne in a voice that is so deliberately empty of judgment I can practically feel the strength of will you are exerting to keep it so , ’ said David with the hint of a laugh in his deep voice . |
| 22 | But 100 yards is the standard length of a long-net and as a general rule this length suffices . |
| 23 | You need a trench the width of a spade and about 1½in deep . |
| 24 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 25 | Victoria Chaplin has the persona of a grave and beautiful young girl , performing astonishing feats of illusion and imagination with inanimate objects . |
| 26 | This time she told me that she was a lad called Daniel , the younger son of a schoolteacher and his wife in a small town in the south of England . |
| 27 | Farmers in the past , just as now have had to weigh their goods somewhere , but it seems a curious activity to carry out in the middle of a field and down through quite a number of generations ( the weights span at least two centuries ) . |
| 28 | However , the value of a field and its rate of change with time are like the position and velocity of a particle : the uncertainty principle implies that the more accurately one knows one of these quantities , the less accurately one can know the other . |
| 29 | In this context the object of evaluation is always a system which is usually composed of a structure and a process element . |
| 30 | This is the first issue for a decade or so that has been typeset with the aid of a computer and phototypesetting . |