Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 2 | ‘ I cried a lot coming out of my teens , ’ says Charlotte , now 22 , ‘ because I realised that I no longer had an excuse to play out the role of mother 's beloved charge . |
| 3 | At around midnight , the chairman used my pregnancy — I was huge by then — as an excuse to break up the meeting : he said that even if no one else was tired , he thought we ought to disperse so that I could get my rest ! |
| 4 | As an experience to blot out the horror of her discovery on Brynteg it had been blissfully successful . |
| 5 | There was still an hour to wait so the Feldwebel suggested that we should have some coffee . |
| 6 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 7 | It took an hour to sort out the jumble of thoughts . |
| 8 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 9 | To a degree this made him vulnerable : Vichy propagandists had an opportunity to fill in the blanks , by vilifying him as a deserter in the pay of the British or of Jewish interests . |
| 10 | Most nurses are first thrown into these situations at around eighteen years of age , before they have an opportunity to sort out the demands of their own emotional lives . |
| 11 | The Government 's Energy Review provided an opportunity to press home the demand that opencast coal mining be severely cut back . |
| 12 | Sometimes too much can be expected of an opportunity to put forward the company 's point of view . |
| 13 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 14 | The death of Stalin early in 1953 was promptly seized upon by Churchill as an opportunity to test out the thinking of the new Soviet leadership . |
| 15 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 16 | 13 May — A Movement Accompaniment Day run by and , which will also include an opportunity to try out the machines in the Fitness Centre . |
| 17 | Similarly , on retreats such as this one , the fire of the Holy Spirit has an opportunity to burn away the dross of the Church and even of doctrine that may obscure the faith that is central to all we believe and hope for . |
| 18 | The coal board never misses an opportunity to study carefully the comments made by the hon. Gentleman in the House , and I am sure that today will be no exception . |
| 19 | You could even get an off-line-reader to cut down the phone bills to hardly anything . |
| 20 | IN 1930 at the height of the great depression , in an attempt to cheer up the citizens and stimulate trade and industry , many towns throughout Northern Ireland organised shopping weeks which took the form of festivals . |
| 21 | After ordering that Ward 's court costs were to be paid by the British taxpayer he called for both prosecution and defence in fraud trials to declare their hands to each other before the start of a serious fraud case in an attempt to speed up the proceedings . |
| 22 | Finally , materials stockpiling was encouraged by the Japanese government in 1972–3 in an attempt to hold down the yen exchange rate . |
| 23 | Police are now using DNA testing , or genetic fingerprinting in an attempt to track down the rapist . |
| 24 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 25 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , Lady Alethea and Gilbey fled to Italy . |
| 26 | In an attempt to patch up the relationship , she and Gilbey fled to Italy with Diana 's brother , Earl Spencer and his wife , Victoria . |
| 27 | If this be thought to be disingenuously restrictive , an attempt to define away the opposition , then consider the alternative . |
| 28 | The severe artificial banking was removed and in 1967 the lap was extended slightly and a chicane added near the start at Tiergarten in an attempt to slow down the circuit . |
| 29 | Tyroglyphus , harmless to the vine but a deadly enemy of Phylloxera vastatrix , was imported in 1873 in an attempt to kill off the pest ; unfortunately , however , unlike phylloxera , Tyroglyphus did not care for the European climate and failed to settle . |
| 30 | The federal government has spent $2–8 million drilling 1635 holes , injecting 122 556 tons of fly ash , and flushing 117 220 yards of sand into the burning tunnels in an attempt to put out the fire . |