Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tayside men hold an advantage of a single point over their well-heeled Glaswegian rivals , and they traditionally fare well on visits to Govan . |
| 2 | If those on the Opposition Front Bench are right and there is an election on a certain day in April , the Government are right not to allow many hours of debate on the first few clauses so that subsequent clauses are rushed through without sufficient consideration . |
| 3 | They argued that when a party had won an election on a given programme , it showed that the public wanted these measures to be passed . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , who fought an election on an honest programme and was defeated . |
| 5 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 6 | It is worthy of note at this stage that on Mr t to say that on Mr calculations the figures for multiplier and multiplicand to the cost of total ca er of future care involved an addition to a total sum of one million two hundred and twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty five pounds and twenty eight pence . |
| 7 | The initiative usually comes from the developer proposing an addition to an existing village , or from the local authority housing department wishing to construct a new council housing estate . |
| 8 | Therefore , a form of " reverse engineering " is positively encouraged allowing the knowledge gained from an inspection of an existing topography to be used as the basis of a new topography . |
| 9 | Rumours circulating recently suggesting a ‘ super route ’ had been climbed in Twll Mawr ( Dinorwig Quarries ) proved to be untrue , and the chalk spotted on Johnny Dawes ' bold route The Indian Face ( Cloggy ) , still unrepeated , came from an inspection by a local activism , who decided discretion was better than a serious scuffing ! |
| 10 | THE Irish wake is regarded by many from outside Ireland as an excuse for a boozing session . |
| 11 | Witnessing should never become an excuse for a heated argument ; if things are moving in that direction it 's better to end the conversation sooner rather than later . |
| 12 | Nowadays it 's more an excuse for a hearty lunch and a day on the river , as Robin Powell discovered . |
| 13 | Previously , ASEAN states had viewed with suspicion any effort to include environmental concerns in GATT on the grounds that they could be used as an excuse for a protectionist attitude by wealthy northern countries , and that , specifically , they could lead to a ban on the import of timber from south-east Asia . |
| 14 | Silly noises like raspberries are an excuse for a good giggle — see how many you can come up with , and let him copy you . |
| 15 | He heard , as I did , the faint threat in the cousinly concern , and at least it gave him an excuse for a face-saving exit . |
| 16 | A third to the far hill range would have been ideal , but something must always be left undone , as an excuse for a speedy return . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've always done it this way ’ is as daft an excuse for an industrial manufacturing process which has become fossilised as it is for saying that fossils have a life of their own . |
| 18 | An insect with a primary infection on a leg can easily spread spores to other locations simply by brushing the infected appendage against other parts of the body , and non-sexual contact with an infected individual can also initiate infections in randomly-scattered locations . |
| 19 | There were 105 farms that had an income from an off-farm job but in only 22% of these was there conflict between work on the farm and work in employment off the farm . |
| 20 | An apprentice from a nearby stall took out a bullock horn , scooped some dirty water from a rain barrel and began to sprinkle the magician with it . |
| 21 | And they have very specific impacts because they all result their effective result on an interaction with a specific receptor and er an activity I would express on that receptor or as a result of the er erm the uptake of the toxins . |
| 22 | ‘ All swans are white ’ is certainly falsified if an instance of a non-white swan can be established . |
| 23 | The established professions are said to be based upon an underlying logic which is essentially instrumental ; the individual is seen as an instance of a general category . |
| 24 | This is an instance of a general rule , the Rule of Mutual Exclusion . |
| 25 | For one thing , Callinicos goes out of his way to establish that the intellectual tradition he is concerned to critique is itself most fruitfully read , not as an articulation of a qualitatively new postmodernism , but an instance of a Modernist-type response . |
| 26 | This is apparent , for example , in the view that identifies determinism as the thesis that every event , together with some other event , is an instance of a natural law , so that there is a law-like connection holding between each event under some description or other , and another event . |
| 27 | Raphael Samuels has also reported an instance of a suspected police informer in the East End who was visited by a mob who expressed their displeasure by burning effigies . |
| 28 | The resources movement is an instance of an educational trend that calls , not for less from teachers , but for very much more . |
| 29 | Also disappointed were some who hoped for an inauguration of a holy war against the Roman occupation of Judaea : he taught non-resistance , love to enemies . |
| 30 | There will , as usual , be a right of appeal against an assessment to an industrial tribunal . |