Example sentences of "an [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These conditions usually result in a flag being set , or an interrupt to a recovery routine being taken . |
| 2 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 3 | Durham Edition ran a fair race to finish just under eight lengths fourth to Ghofar in the Hennessy and he must come into the reckoning , although the weight rise seems to give an advantage to Royal Cedar ( 2.55 ) , who was originally 8lb out of the handicap . |
| 4 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 5 | Many of the villages had their ‘ experts ’ in lambing and calving but those farmers spoken to felt it would be an advantage to be able to undertake these tasks themselves . |
| 6 | From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online . |
| 7 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 8 | When the First World War broke out in 1914 schools were on holiday , which proved to be an advantage to the military authorities who promptly requisitioned the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf at Doncaster and the Dundee School for the Deaf . |
| 9 | An advantage to night city scenes is that darkness cloaks these elements which give a location its regional quality . |
| 10 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 11 | It 's always an advantage to the man that 's making the money , who 's using these guys to use this thing to divide them . ’ |
| 12 | There is an advantage to management too , in that it reduces the dependence of the machine on consistent human performance . |
| 13 | It is viewed with some suspicion by staff anxious about the standards of care provided , but there is undoubtedly an advantage to clients , who are able to be cared for in more homely environments rather than long stay wards . |
| 14 | In America , it was an advantage to be Irish . |
| 15 | An advantage to night city scenes is that darkness cloaks these elements which give a location its regional quality . |
| 16 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 17 | It will undoubtedly be an advantage to governing bodies to have more control over the resources of their schools and greater flexibility in the deployment and use of staff , premises and materials . |
| 18 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 19 | It would also give an advantage to non-EC purchasers of European heritage . |
| 20 | Finally , its admission must be seen as an advantage to the security industry and to the BSIA . |
| 21 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |
| 22 | The Court of Appeals expressly rejected the first resort cases as not well reasoned , and as giving an advantage to foreign litigants . |
| 23 | That maybe the idea , but there are so many things to be done by voluntary workers if people would only say well I 've got half an hour an hour it could be so much of an advantage to whoever they 're giving their services to because we 're having to cut costs on this and costs on that an hour or two given voluntary would cover those jobs that we ca n't get the money to pay for . |
| 24 | I think it an advantage to a student to have something to react against , but this has not led me to struggle to reach firm conclusions on every topic . |
| 25 | The existence of variable orthographies is an advantage to the ME dialectologist in exactly the same way that the existence of spoken variation is an advantage in present-day research . |
| 26 | It is not an advantage to a woman , and fatal to society , if women are allowed to take too important a role . |
| 27 | Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) . |
| 28 | For example , an airline ticket , allowing occupation of an empty seat , costs an airline nothing — in fact , in such a case there could be a negative cost , as it might be an advantage to the airline to have an experienced crew member on the flight . |
| 29 | When records are added to a file organized in this way , there is an advantage to be gained by planning the additions procedure . |
| 30 | White , in this issue , notes that while much has been achieved by deregulation in the US since the 1970s , regulation with anticompetitive effects remains common in the services sector , and much health-safety-environmental regulation is designed in a manner which gives an advantage to incumbent firms . |