Example sentences of "[det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 2 | Is this a king who is the shepherd of his people ? |
| 3 | I would not to-morrow , for the sake of a united Ireland , give up the policy of trying to make this a really Irish Ireland — not by any means . |
| 4 | ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better . |
| 5 | Their Jewish inheritance apart ( and no serious understanding of his music interests can afford not to give this a very high place , as we shall see ) , was formed by such artists as Eddie Fisher , Gordon Jenkins , Vaughan Monroe , Patti Page , Dinah Shore , Frank Sinatra , Tony Bennett and Johnny Ray , who followed in the wake of the big bands . |
| 6 | Constructivism seems to make this a logical impossibility , which of course means that no data could ever disprove the constructivist claims about what develops in infancy : any evidence that object knowledge ( the ‘ object concept ’ or ‘ object permanence ’ ) exists without reaching behaviour will not be judged to be evidence for object permanence — as a point of logic . |
| 7 | I thought this a viable way to use the Woodcarver , with its circular cutting motion giving a good effect for the hanging , clinging jungle . |
| 8 | I found this a little fiddly , with the C-spanner light weight , but the sliding finger guard , which covers the collet on the 88 is excellent for ensuring digits do n't get near burrs . |
| 9 | This a busy commercial workshop . |
| 10 | Otherwise this a comfortable two-compartment sack with well padded hipbelt and shoulder straps . |
| 11 | This a direct finish to Centrefold on Raven Crag Langdale ( the one above the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel ) . |
| 12 | Common sense may deem this a highfalutin account of a quality possessed by every exciting story . |
| 13 | Omar Pound , with Walton Litz of Princeton , has edited the letters that his Parents exchanged through their protracted courtship , and their Publishers have made of this a very pretty book . |
| 14 | This a very English and pragmatic argument for the necessity of a central authority in the Church . |
| 15 | Is this a play still capable of generating new meanings ? |
| 16 | ‘ This a pension of £60,000 plus £600,000 at the end — is it really possible ? ’ he asked . |
| 17 | I consider this a monstrous libel and gross slur on my reputation and it has caused grave distress and embarrassment to me and is of course highly defamatory . |
| 18 | I call this a ‘ congratulate , and call upon ’ motion . |
| 19 | On the contrary , for all the general flow of tranquillity and prosperity , a number of specific themes consistently emerged which made this a time of anxiety , even torment . |
| 20 | The pull was made on to a slightly uphill gradient and into the wind , in spite of this a record breaking 100 metres was reached in 40.8 seconds at a speed of 4.5 mph . |
| 21 | Frequent Bolovian references ( drawings , some rhymes , and much Bolovian dogma ) show that in the period 1927–30 Eliot found this a valuable way of letting off some of the emotional steam generated by his conversion ; serious discussions of theology are juxtaposed in this correspondence with ridiculous accounts of Bolovian religious practice , one letter dated according to the day of St Cecilia , another according to that of St Gumbolumbo . |
| 22 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 23 | Was this a case of folie de grandeur , in which Britain 's economic recovery was sacrificed to anachronistic ( and unsocialist ? ) attempts to retain a great power stance in the world ? |
| 24 | Haslam found this a rather passive role compared to running a business himself , so when he was asked to become ICI 's personnel director he jumped at the opportunity to tackle a job which appeared to have a higher executive content . |
| 25 | Conversely , if state-owned companies have been offered for privatization but few bidders have come forward , is this a ‘ failure ’ if the firms continue as loss makers in the public sector ? |
| 26 | Is this a £500,000-a-month ego trip , with Williams in pursuit of the world title that , on present form , seems can only be won by a McLaren-Honda or a Ferrari — or , more to the point , by Ayrton Senna or Alain Prost ? |
| 27 | Video technology has made this a frequent topic of male sporting conversation . |
| 28 | The quickly erected boarded external finish of the former storage shed and the predominantly ‘ dry ’ construction of the internal wall linings made this a practical policy once reconstruction , during the spring and summer months , of the decayed lower-storey brickwork was complete and had produced a habitable shell . |
| 29 | Is this a Ministry affair , Frau ? ’ |
| 30 | This a bedroom key for receptacle which turns on energy systems only when the fob is inserted — and turns them off again when the guest takes the key out to leave the room . |