Example sentences of "a [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 People employed in industry which as you know today is er , a , an indication of how a rich a country is .
2 The 32-year-old Bein played in Germany 's 1990 World Cup campaign but won the last of his 14 caps in a friendly a year ago .
3 Ace had spoken of his intention to try and pull strings on her behalf , but she had n't thought he 'd have that much clout with a multi-national the size of IMP .
4 When a stress is applied to a solid the response can not in reality be instantaneous and , in polymers , in particular , elastic " after-effects ' ( to use the phrase of Weber in 1835 ) are found .
5 A MAGNIFICENT Stuart Ripley goal put Middlesbrough into the Rumbelows League Cup The former England Under-21 winger is not a noted a goalscorer .
6 Well obviously if if you the normal rule of thumb , as I 'm led to believe , is that if you buy a used a vehicle from a used car dealer , you 're given three months , three thousand miles , in which you can you can take complaints back .
7 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
8 The Profitboss is a professional every minute of the day .
9 But the thing is that it seems that we 're a cultural the way the system is set up
10 Karen Hurst helped a 10-year-old a cancer sufferer back to health by donating life-giving marrow last year .
11 ‘ It was at a photo-shoot a couple of days before a charity gig at the National Stadium in Dublin , ’ he says .
12 They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding .
13 A straightforward mistake might have just a serious an effect .
14 If it is a simple Yes-No decision , then picture two gates . )
15 For a hired a studio for three hours .
16 ‘ Meaning ’ atheists do not make the claim that language about God is incommunicable either — in their case because they do not regard it as emanating from a philosophical No Go area labelled ‘ metaphysics ’ that is pronounced to be beyond the bounds of sense .
17 Analyses of sexism in the curriculum should also include identification of what is left out , either within subject areas , or in terms of potential links between areas of knowledge : my contention is that the higher the prestige , and the more valuable a credential the subject becomes , the more likely it is to exclude issues , themes and approaches which relate to personal and female domains .
18 In the strictest sense of the word Iceland is not a ‘ Arctic ’ country ; the Circle nicks only the northern tip of the isle of Grimsey and so leaves the main island in a sub-Arctic no man 's land .
19 Of a sudden a gull which has died on the wing crashes to the sand at my feet , its feathers brushing my forehead as it falls .
20 ‘ Forgot a lot o' things , did old Blackberry ! ’ observed Forest , addressing Richard as if he were of a sudden a force to be reckoned with .
21 Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own .
22 Of a sudden the fräulein tucked her arm into his .
23 It 's probably simpler not to , not to worry about that that 's just a quick a bit of a short cut way of doing it .
24 He installed a swear box on the set and demanded a fine every time the language of his adult colleagues became too mature .
25 It 's the machine every Game Boy owner would like , but it costs a prohibitive £129.99 if bought with a Sonic The Hedgehog cart .
26 They would give the President the right to appoint and dismiss ministers , and to veto a parliamentary no confidence vote in the government , as well as allow a simple majority in the Sejm to be sufficient to approve legislation ( instead of the current two-thirds majority ) .
27 Delegation of authority occurs in an organisation where a superior gives to a subordinate the discretion to make decisions within a certain sphere of influence .
28 they take away from a subordinate the feeling that his superior , in issuing orders , holds power over him .
29 Delegation of authority thus refers to the process by which a superior gives a subordinate the authority to carry out an aspect of the superior 's job .
30 In fact , Woosie gives me a rollicking every week .
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