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 . |