Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as an excuse to get in the bedrooms |
| 2 | Employees said that they would like further presentations and an opportunity to talk to the directors of other departments in the future . |
| 3 | Many , however , did have an opportunity to talk to the advisers responsible for multicultural education , provision for equal opportunities and children with special needs . |
| 4 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 5 | It was an opportunity to place Save The Children Fund 's current and future aim into historical context and for volunteers a valuable lesson in preparation for the seventy fifth . |
| 6 | I doubt whether he will have an opportunity to meddle in the affairs of the Northern Ireland ports , but , were he to do so , as he comes from Wigan his knowledge of the pier might be of assistance . |
| 7 | He was on his way to Roedean in another cab to fulfil an engagement to speak to the girls of the sixth form . |
| 8 | The external audit showed an openness to change among the employees and no instant desire to blame other departments when things went wrong . |
| 9 | One is a theme of er presidential frustration the idea that the presidency of the United States is too weak an institution to cope with the responsibilities that it faces . |
| 10 | Lakatos 's account was presented first in this book because it is best seen as a culmination of the Popperian programme and as a direct response to and an attempt to improve on the limitations of Popperian falsificationism . |
| 11 | The associated spelling standardization is mainly an attempt to cope with the differences between British and American spelling : there are 13 rules , including " iz " — " is " non-terminal " ae " — " e " and terminal " tre — " ter " The spelling rules are given in full by Walker and Jones . |
| 12 | ( Chapter 7 contains an attempt to follow through the implications for the internal life of institutions of their practising such a Habermas type communicative rationality . ) |
| 13 | The theory of the global system based on transnational practices is an attempt to escape from the limitations of state-centrism . |
| 14 | The school of Tolkien , if one may so describe it , was an attempt to throw on the brakes : to rediscover a national and personal selfhood by discovering the roots of faith . |
| 15 | As well as being asked how often they commit illegal acts , respondents are generally asked details of their social characteristics , social class , race and so on , in an attempt to get round the biases in official criminal statistics . |
| 16 | The bacon-curing business was for sale for £l00,000 so assuming that he could finance the remainder he engaged an accountant to check over the books of the existing business and report back to him . |
| 17 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 18 | She tried to control an urge to pull at the ropes of jewels , coils of bracelets , the heavy tiara pressing into her scalp . |
| 19 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 22 , Le Duc Anh 's visit had been prompted by an unexpected invitation from China for Vietnam to send an envoy to report on the results of the CPV 's seventh congress . |
| 20 | Benefits now and hopes of advancement may curb an inclination to deviate from the requirements of superiors , a feeling that some parts of the job are ‘ worth doing ’ may be even more influential . |
| 21 | It will then be necessary to negotiate with the adjoining owner , either to acquire the land in question or to obtain an easement to conform to the conditions in perpetuity . |
| 22 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 23 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 24 | ‘ Other uniformed officer and plain clothed detectives rushed from the station in Edward Street in an effort to close off the roads and usher passers-by away from the van . ’ |
| 25 | At some point , you will probably have to write out your own version of other people 's ideas in the form of paraphrase or summary embedded in your own work ; so it could be argued that you should do the rewriting from the outset , as you take your notes , in an effort to get at the ideas behind the words rather than just repeating the words themselves . |
| 26 | Pro and anti-bolters must now show less fanaticism in their activities and this policy will only work if everyone makes an effort to operate within the guidelines . |
| 27 | All children have to develop a concept of safety and an ability to cope with the hazards which exist in that environment . |
| 28 | Finally , it is also important for an officer to know about the processes which give rise to the particular effluents in his patch , since this helps the business of containment and on the spot diagnosis in an emergency . |
| 29 | An invitation to glimpse behind the scenes from a diverse selection of Northamptonshire businesses and public sector organisations . |
| 30 | Foreign trade officials from all 15 union republics met on July 26 and signed an agreement to divide among the republics Soviet diamond , gold and hard currency reserves , and foreign credits to the Soviet Union , as well as sharing responsibility for the Soviet Union 's $65,000 million foreign debt . |