Example sentences of "[is] an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now A B S A show there 's an organization called the Association for Business and the Arts
2 ‘ There are several versions of what 's going on , but one is that it 's an attempt to overthrow the government ’ of President Ramsewak Shankar , he added .
3 She said , you silly little git , he said it 's an actor taking the part of him in the film !
4 For most people ( whether or not they have any loss of hearing ) it is an advantage to use the resonators fully .
5 The command PRINT ‘ Hello World ’ is an instruction to print the message ‘ Hello World ’ on the screen but Qbasic does n't obey this command until you tell it to .
6 A common example is an instruction to increment the contents of a specified store location and skip if the result is zero .
7 A further possibility is an instruction to count the number of one bits in a computer word , and place the result in a suitable register ; this is useful in the calculation of parity .
8 What is involved is an inability to penetrate the culture of the subject and to achieve the appropriate blend of knowledge , analysis , and affective response that is needed to perform well in an English course .
9 Perhaps the most obvious cause of failure is an inability to perceive the pattern that exists in nature .
10 Failure to have that person will almost always mean that there is an inability to build the business sufficiently quickly to attract new high-quality people or retain existing staff , and build a profit base .
11 At one end is an opening called the anus , though the term is not completely appropriate for the animal uses it not only for excretion but for breathing as well , sucking water gently in and out over tubules just inside the body .
12 It is an honour to follow the remarks addressed to the House by the hon. Member for Belfast , South ( Rev. Martin Smyth ) .
13 It is an adaptation to increase the rate of finding food .
14 But what we also said tha that 's quite encouraging , John , is that there is an ability to crosscheck the costing that you 've achieved with
15 The Hall Associations hold their reunions at the same time and there is an opportunity to see the work of one or more departments .
16 His motives are profit pure and simple , and here at last is an opportunity to sell the establishment 's conference facilities : maybe he should move out of honeymoon accommodation , a stagnating sector , and exploit the growth potential of the ‘ marital disharmony ’ market .
17 I do not think that Boots ' sponsorship helped the RNA , because it served to shut out the rest of the trade , but now that Boots has withdrawn and a new sponsor is being sought there is an opportunity to boost the award .
18 In conclusion , I hope you can see the enormous challenge fundholding is posing , and how it is an opportunity to make the health service responsive to our needs as general practitioners acting on behalf of our patients .
19 There is an opportunity to introduce the concept of prudence at this point .
20 For many gardeners , the Spring Show is an opportunity to buy the bedding plants that bring much needed early summer colour to the borders.For the nurserymen , it 's a great start to the season.Over the three days they expect to sell plants worth three quarters of a million pounds .
21 It is an opportunity to expand the responsibilities of John Langley , an up-and-coming salesman getting some great results in the north .
22 When these come to the attention of colleagues , there is an obligation to point the nurse in the right direction for help .
23 It is an invitation to enumerate the conventions and to contrast them with the law .
24 ‘ It is an invitation to hoof the ball forward rather than use the goalkeeper to play the ball from the back , as Tottenham prefer to do . ’
25 It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence .
26 Kelley is an artist testing the boundaries of taste and tolerance .
27 In all contracts , there is an incentive to shift the costs on to other services outside that contract , for instance , from hospital care to community care .
28 The most important remedy for breach of confidence is an injunction preventing the use or disclosure of the information .
29 Hurley suggests that endotoxin in the bloodstream is an epiphenomenon accompanying the transition of bacteria to their cell-wall deficient L-forms , and that it is these L-forms that are responsible for the symptoms .
30 Under way at the moment is an investigation to determine the suitability of the Hunslet ‘ Wagonmaster ’ industrial locomotives used by Board na Mona The Irish Turf Board for conversion to a replica power bogie .
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