The choice Russia has is between payment for damages in money or in kind.–Times.
Forced to choose between the sacrifice of important interests on the one hand or the expansion of the Estimates on the other.–Times.
We have in that substance the link between organic or inorganic matter which abolishes the distinction between living and dead matter.–Westminster Gazette. (Observe the 'elegant variation')
The question lies between a God and a creed, or a God in such an abstract sense that does not signify.–Daily Telegraph.
The author of the last has been perplexed by the and in one of his alternatives. He should have used on the one hand, &c.
34. 'A' placed between the Adjective and its Noun
This is ugly when not necessary. Types of phrase in which it is necessary are: Many a youth; What a lie! How dreadful a fate! So lame an excuse. But there is no difficulty in placing a before ordinary qualifications of the adjective like quite, more, much less. In the following, read quite a sufficient, a more valuable, a more glorious, a more serviceable, no different position, a greater or less degree.
...adding that there was no suggestion of another raid against the Japanese flank, which was quite sufficient an indication of coming events for those capable of reading between the lines.–Times.
Can any one choose more glorious an exit than to die fighting for one's own country?–Times.
Of sympathy, of...Mr. Baring has a full measure, which, in his case, is more valuable an asset than familiarity with military textbooks.–Times.
No great additional expenditure is required in order to make Oxford more serviceable a part of our educational system.–Westminster Gazette.
And young undergraduates are in this respect in no different a position from that of any other Civil Servant.–Westminster Gazette.
The thousand and one adjuncts to devotion finding place in more or less a degree in all churches, are all...–Daily Telegraph.
The odd arrangement in the following will not do; we should have a either before so or before degree.
But what I do venture to protest against is the sacrificing of the
