Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 2 | The Islamist Union , affiliated to the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) , boycotted the strike , describing it as a dispute between ruling party factions which might provide the FLN with an excuse for postponing a multiparty general election . |
| 3 | All he had to do then was to make it known that he had promised to leave Laura alone so that she could have a rest in peace , to make an excuse about paying a brief visit to the Gents , to go up to his room — probably via the guest-lift — to stick his hand inside the room and grab the handbag , to take out the jewel before dumping the handbag , and then … ’ |
| 4 | Willie was given a small spade and after an hour of removing a tiny section of earth he began to forget that he was surrounded by strangers and gradually became absorbed in his digging . |
| 5 | And after half an hour of discussing the good things and the less good things about the royal family the vote , apart from a few abstentions , we have worried a few people fo fo fo forty three people say we think that it should be a republic , fifty four no , so there is there 's a swing factor in the middle . |
| 6 | We walked for an hour without passing a single habitation . |
| 7 | In studies on the last day of treatment , fasted subjects took their morning dose of study medication half an hour before eating the standard test meal , whereas on the day before and after the treatment courses placebo was given 30 minutes before eating the test meal . |
| 8 | Maidenhead were given an award for providing a constant stream of contacts which are very well qualified . |
| 9 | The application does nothing to retain the existing trees on the site , it was a , it is , a mature garden with some mature trees , and all those trees are to be removed , it certainly does n't do anything to retain the rural character of the na of the village , and certainly does n't enhance the character of the adjoining small er rural cottages , i in fact it would be , it could be argued that it damages the rural environment , because the development is such that it is more suited for an urban development , almost a city centre , because the comment has been made that there is only about a metre between the dwellings and indeed there is only a metre between the dwellings and the adjoining boundaries , surely there is a need for screening , it is in a in a very very prominent position , it can be seen clearly as you enter the village from the Farnsfield area , the present proposal does n't provide sufficient room for screening , and and like the screen which is adjacent to this building , which are set well back from the road , and provide an opportunity for screening the single access to the site and the fact that the frontage to these two properties is completely taken up with garaging and with vehicle access does n't even provide an opportunity to screen . |
| 10 | A seminar series would allow students to present reflections on their own experience , and provide an opportunity for integrating the theological and development issues . |
| 11 | It was Chapman 's second foreign tour ( after Northampton 's German visit of 1909 ) and he became a firm advocate of overseas ventures , because of their publicity value and because they gave an opportunity of displaying the English soccer style to foreign audiences . |
| 12 | With the capture of Francis I at Pavia in 1525 , Henry saw — or claimed to see — an opportunity of seizing the French throne . |
| 13 | In addition to providing a comprehensive understanding of nursing care and its relationship to disease and treatment , clinical experience offers the student an opportunity of learning a wide range of practical skills . |
| 14 | The new partner should , it hardly needs to be said , be given an opportunity of studying the full agreement together with the firm 's accounts for , say , the last three years before being invited to sign any instrument of accession or adherence . |
| 15 | However , where the vessel constitutes an instrument for pursuing an economic activity which involves a fixed establishment in the member state concerned , the registration of that vessel can not be dissociated from the exercise of the freedom of establishment . |
| 16 | If law is to be used as ‘ an instrument for casting an alternative political vote by exposing the decision making process to contending views of public necessity ’ ( Lewis and Harden , 1982 , p. 68 ) , the most obvious way in which such an aim might be pursued is through the development of a test case strategy . |
| 17 | Perhaps too much has been expected of it : education policy is too weak an instrument for counteracting the great weight of inequality in British society . |
| 18 | This has an effect of cooling the deep waters of the world ocean and it also has an important climatic effect in removing excess C O two from the atmosphere . |
| 19 | Talks between Bangladesh and Myanma during January and February had yielded few results and so in March the Bangladesh government launched a diplomatic offensive in an attempt at spurring the international community into preventing a major tragedy occurring . |
| 20 | An attempt at modelling the future role of tropical forests in the world economy had the export of tropical hardwoods doubling between 1986 and 2000 with the opening up of industries in other countries . |
| 21 | If an employer does not prevent them availing themselves of the opportunity to learn business secrets how can he later seek to restrain an employee from using the same information . |
| 22 | If inaction is believed to involve losing the whole , to promote a change which is aimed , on a low estimate , at keeping three-quarters does not imply an intention of conceding a great deal . |
| 23 | An alternative to covering the entire area with one type of flooring is to choose a smooth flooring ( such as wood , PVC-coated cork , vinyl or linoleum ) for the dining area and carpet for the living area . |
| 24 | It appears to me that if a man may lawfully , in the furtherance of business interests , do acts which will seriously injure another in his business he may also lawfully , if he is still acting in the furtherance of his business interests , offer that other to accept a sum of money as an alternative to doing the injurious acts . |
| 25 | An alternative to having a separate entry for every word-form is that only base forms are listed in the lexicon , together with a set of lexical rules for deriving all regularly inflected forms of the base item , and a listing of all irregularly inflected forms . |
| 26 | Then she had an obsession with changing the political map in the guise of union bashing , she also smashed the engineering industry , especially in the North . |
| 27 | Now , no one could argue that all the problems of financial management — particularly as an aid to achieving the maximum VFM from limited resources — have been overcome in the NHS . |
| 28 | Objectification as an approach is only useful in so far as it is an aid to understanding a given process in the world . |
| 29 | It was thus permissible , as an aid to identifying the legislative intention behind s 72(4) , to consider the anomalies that the absence of any limitation to its scope would produce , the antecedent legislation and the manner in which other types of small distributions were dealt within CGTA 1979 . |
| 30 | The value of accurate geological information was becoming apparent not only as a basis for research but as an aid in assessing the national mineral wealth and in formulating land utilisation policies . |