Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This spell enables the caster to transport a friendly or an enemy unit or a single model up to 18″ across the table in any direction . |
| 2 | Though the Japanese are by no means a lazy or an idle race , and though they possess none of that apathetic indolence common to those Eastern races who dwell beneath a tropical sun , still all notions of speed , haste or flurry are utterly foreign to their nature . |
| 3 | There is also the question of height : getting some height into a room can make all the difference between a monotonous and an interesting space . |
| 4 | It will be noted that the day space , to be provided on the basis of 4m2 per person , and including the 2 day patients , mean that a 10-bed sub-section would have a total and an 8-bed sub-section would have a day space of 40m 2 . |
| 5 | I mean , even if you go for a , a Chinky or an Indian it 's |
| 6 | Generally speaking , it is less common for a woman to join a rural than an urban trade union and women who do participate are not so conscious of their exploitation at work and in the home . |
| 7 | Moreover , the socialist ideology of Cuba meant a different motivation for pupils and workers from that existing in capitalist countries — ‘ to work for collective rather than personal objectives ’ — with the result that education in Cuba became both a technical and an ideological force for greater productivity . |
| 8 | In Chapter 4 I show that an attempt to prove the possibility of pluralism by proving the existence of irreducibly " external " relations presupposes a distinction between a subjective and an objective order . |
| 9 | Discrimination may be experienced both in a covert and an overt form . |
| 10 | Whether or not political or administrative accountability is the more desirable depends upon one 's view about the relationships that should exist between State and society , but it is more likely that where decisions are made by political appointees there is greater uncertainty , for such decisions then embody both a political and an economic dimension . |
| 11 | At one level , there is a clearly visible opposition between a historical and an existential perspective . |
| 12 | Should it be a historical or an anthropological science ? |
| 13 | When I went to see the director of Albanian radio and television , I tried to describe the difference in atmosphere between a British and an Albanian election campaign . |
| 14 | Noble Lords is whether my Right Honourable Friend i is taking too much er er power to use an unpleasant word and I think actually a wrong word er i in the appointment of those who have been selected by a different and an independent system . |
| 15 | For example , if a first-generation hybrid between a brown and an albino mouse is crossed back to an albino , the offspring will be in the ratio 1 brown to 1 albino : if two hybrids are mated to one another , the ratio will be 3 brown to 1 albino . |
| 16 | Mary Helen Washington 's book is a formidable and elegant work of scholarship , a reference work to dip into time and time again , and a reminder that there is no such thing as a free or an easy book . |
| 17 | Research on UK quoted companies indicates that over half use either a wrong or an inappropriate technique for evaluating leases ( ‘ The Leasing Decision : A Comparison of Theory and Practice ’ by Colin Drury and Steven Braund , Accounting and Business Research , Vol 20 No 79 , Summer 1990 , pp 179–191 ) . |
| 18 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
| 19 | The liturgical seasons and the cycle of commemorative festivals defined both a weekly and an annual rhythm of Christian living . |
| 20 | But they also know , through recent , extensive and bitter experience , the difference between a sane and an insane workload , or rate of change . |
| 21 | This is not surprising , for the job of the liberal state was to maintain and promote the liberal society , which was not essentially a democratic or an equal society . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a hell of a standard and an enormous challenge . |
| 23 | Within seconds visual behaviours are sending signals which create a favourable or an unfavourable impression . |
| 24 | I usually fish four or five maggots on a 12 hook ; two or three grains of sweetcorn on a 10 or an 8 . |
| 25 | It happens whenever you try to perform a bland or an extrude . |
| 26 | The distinction between a restricted and an elaborated code is based on language studies carried out by middle-class investigators who entered the social world of ‘ working-class ’ children from the outside and without credentials valid in that world . |
| 27 | A study was made of various options for the future of the laboratory and it was decided to diversify into commercial work of both a non-nuclear and an applied nuclear nature . |
| 28 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ( ‘ the deceased ’ ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; ( b ) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown ; or ( c ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act , then … the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or , subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , without a jury . |
| 29 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the coroner to dispense with an inquest in any case where there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; or ( b ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act . |
| 30 | In fact , of course , genes and environment interact in highly non-linear ways during development , and attempts to partition the phenotype out into a genetic and an environmental ‘ component ’ are doomed to failure . |