Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A big animal , it is early maturing , rapid in growth and good for intensive rearing without putting on fat , but its major characteristic is its extreme double-muscling , which is an advantage in the eyes of the butcher ( the meat is very lean ) but a considerable disadvantage for purebred cows , who in almost all cases must be calved by caesarian section : the muscling interferes with natural calving . |
| 4 | Another single-deficit interpretation of Broca 's aphasia is that it is a phonological deficit ( Kean , 1977 ) : an impairment of the aspects of the language-processing system that relate to phonology ( the sounds of words , as distinct from their meanings or spellings ) . |
| 5 | Solicitors are allowed to form service companies , subject to the following conditions : ( 1 ) membership of the company must be limited to members or partners of the firm , admitted solicitors holding practising certificates , retired partners of the firm and dependants of retired or deceased partners ; ( 2 ) the books of the company must be made available where the Council of the Law Society require an inspection of the accounts under the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1991 . |
| 6 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 7 | That is an hypothesis about the foundations of practical support between kin in the past which could be tested systematically against historical data , although it would be a major task and certainly is beyond my scope here . |
| 8 | That is , the meaning of the combination is also influenced by an interaction between the meanings of its constituents . |
| 9 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |
| 10 | Data are often dirty , containing errors and gaps , and sociolinguistic data have similar characteristics ( see McEntegart and Le Page 1982 for an assessment of the difficulties of applying standard statistical techniques in sociolinguistics ) . |
| 11 | Consequently , valid comparisons of the rate of known opioid use in Wirral with the rates in other areas of the UK depend upon an assessment of the findings of the handful of local surveys of known drug users in the 1980s . |
| 12 | It means that the starting point for the plan is not a strategic concept of the future but an assessment of the resources of the present . |
| 13 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 14 | As regards methods of analysis , it seemed most appropriate to examine the output of selected key bodies , in order to make an assessment of the images of the elderly emerging from each and of similarities and differences among them . |
| 15 | An assessment of the prospects of equality/equity |
| 16 | This was a report commissioned by the British government as an assessment of the prospects in the Biafran War , which in fact firmly predicted the inevitable victory of the Nigerian government — a victory which was , of course , inevitable because of the support the British government was giving to it . |
| 17 | However , a manager can benefit from understanding the distinctions between the roles and making an assessment of the role-strengths of his own staff . |
| 18 | The traditional Labor Day start of the presidential election campaign , on Sept. 7 , saw an intensification of the efforts of Democratic Party nominee Bill Clinton and his Republican rival and incumbent President , George Bush . |
| 19 | This concept implies peripheralisation , an existence on the borders of society , where there is a lack of participation in the urban social structure . |
| 20 | It sounded so sensible , but for the fact there were , in some countries , still billions of people struggling in an existence beyond the comforts of geodesic domes . |
| 21 | erm , other than clairify the erm , all solutions were made available to members of the panel as an appendix to the reports to the Policy Panel er , but that they wo n't to all members efficiency but were made available |
| 22 | The Inland Revenue 's policy on the allocation of overpayments of tax against underpayments , and the interest consequences thereof , have been published in an appendix to the notes of a meeting between the Revenue and the Institute 's Tax Faculty ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 90 ) . |
| 23 | Right , Whitchurch seven , the , the report they want , where we 're getting to and there is an appendix at the proposals of course , for developing erm , a forum for Whitchurch er , with a range of activities that we could undertake to try to regenerate some confidence in Whitchurch . |
| 24 | In some this may be a result of an imprecision of the techniques of bone density measurement . |
| 25 | Her imagination promptly sped through a catalogue of punishments which ranged from an hour in the stocks to a beating . |
| 26 | Not one of them would be capable of surviving an hour in the alley-ways of East Yzordderrex , he thought , down by the harbour where even the cats had pimps . |
| 27 | The reigning world Formula One champion set a scorching 102.095 miles an hour around the streets of the Queensland holiday resort , clipping about two-tenths of a second off the previous record . |
| 28 | Here is an update on the cases in the 1991 Series : |
| 29 | An update on the awards in this category can be obtained from . |
| 30 | Another flawed but striking recent movie is DOA ( Buena Vista ) , an update from the creators of Max Headroom of the classic 1949 thriller of the same name , which may detrimentally alter the plot of the original but boasts nonetheless some arresting high-tech intimations of neo-expressionist atmosphere . |