Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the charges came to light earlier this year , the Department 's social services inspectorate carried out an inspection to assess the present quality of child protection in the county 's children 's homes . |
| 2 | He used this as an excuse to force the prime minister , Chandra Shekhar , to sack the pro-Tiger state government earlier this year . |
| 3 | When , after just a month in the Palace at Whitehall , Richard 's mother fell ill and wanted to see him , he was glad of an excuse to leave the corrupt court of Charles I , and resolved never to return . |
| 4 | She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand , knowing in her heart that it was an excuse to curtail the physical contact with him . |
| 5 | On a slightly different note , no doubt Tim Tully will find an excuse to justify the latest atrocity carried out by the British imperialist war machine in the six counties . |
| 6 | He had called for Etienne some time ago , and was still waiting ; it gratified him to think that he would at least have an excuse to send the stupid pig on ahead of him . |
| 7 | All she wanted to achieve was an excuse to feel the human warmth of his arm against hers . |
| 8 | When postural dizziness , fainting , and tripping are excluded , many falls are caused by akinetic freezing — an inability to move the leading foot forward when the trunk starts in motion . |
| 9 | A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians . |
| 10 | The incubation period for type A hepatitis was accepted as being much shorter than those for serum hepatitis , but research into either form of hepatitis was hampered by an inability to identify the causative agent . |
| 11 | An appendix reconciles the previous basis with the new FRS figures . |
| 12 | They took an hour to reach the first town , and another hour to find the tourist office and fend off boys with motor bikes who rapped on the windows . |
| 13 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 14 | Trials in the village of Enstone found up to forty drivers an hour breaking the thirty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 15 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 16 | The march of uniformed members took more than an hour to pass the saluting base . |
| 17 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 18 | While his approach was one of conservative conformity on the whole , in line with previous papal policy , he was not a man to overlook an opportunity to extend the Roman Church 's influence . |
| 19 | It also gives participants an opportunity to see the complete video and express their first impressions . |
| 20 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 21 | She recalled to herself that the circumstances of their visit had deprived them of an opportunity to examine the ancient willow tree sprung from a plank of Noah 's Ark . |
| 22 | The reports of the SD station in Würzburg and its subsidiary agencies in the area offer an opportunity to explore the changing mood of the population of Lower Franconia in the light of the five air raids on the local town of Schweinfurt , an important centre of ball-bearing production , so crucial for the armaments industry , between August 1943 and April 1944 . |
| 23 | At Amsteg motorists who are in haste to reach a further destination have an opportunity to leave the old Gotthard road in favour of entry to the fast N2 motorway before the old road enters the steepest and most tortuous part of the route . |
| 24 | Here was an opportunity to demonstrate the architectural difference between analytical thought in the service of society and the Czech artist Karel Teige as the difference between buildings that are instruments and buildings that were conceived as expendable machines , not eternal monuments or worse , post-Modern fakes . |
| 25 | The interior of Hermiston Village , once torn apart by unremitting heavy traffic has now been bypassed by the realignment of A71 and this has provided an opportunity to improve the local environment immeasurably by the adoption of various hard and soft landscaping measures . |
| 26 | where there has been surprise , as where the trial judge allows the case to proceed on a basis other than that pleaded without giving the other side an opportunity to consider the new material ; |
| 27 | The ceasefire with Iran in September 1988 was taken as an opportunity to concentrate the military offensive on those living in Iraq Kurdistan . |
| 28 | This can also be used as an opportunity to discuss the relative cost of long-term and short-term debt finance . |
| 29 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 30 | While working on a book of tropical island pictures , earlier this year , I visited Tahiti three times and had an opportunity to vary the outward journey . |