Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law 8 , Advantage states ‘ The referee shall not whistle for an infringement during play which is followed by an advantage gained by the offending team … a mere opportunity to gain advantage is not sufficient ’ . |
| 2 | With the money she received after his death she had an outbuilding converted into a studio and into one wall inserted a memorial plaque , giving Minton 's name and dates . |
| 3 | She is demanding a government of national consensus , leading to an election run by an independent election commission . |
| 4 | It was Honorius III who conferred the see upon him , acting as mediator in an election disputed between the secular canons of Lichfield and the monks of Coventry . |
| 5 | On the Conservative side , the decision of Callaghan not to hold an election came as a shot in the arm . |
| 6 | An election made after the two-year statutory time limit , but as soon as possible given the circumstances , will be accepted if it is made because a relevant and uncorrected Revenue error has resulted in the partners or their agent being misled about whether the requirements of the legislation have been met . |
| 7 | Under conditions of a clear parliamentary majority , the choice of when to hold an election lies with the Prime Minister . |
| 8 | In an election dominated by the constitutional question , only the Conservatives have been committed to maintaining the status quo . |
| 9 | In an election dominated by the unification issue , it was notable that combined share of the vote won by the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) , was only 43.8 per cent , a smaller percentage than in any of the West German general elections except that of 1949 . |
| 10 | He handed me an eyepiece attached to a long lead and there , through a series of prisms , were my lower intestines in glorious technicolour . |
| 11 | Swainson felt that an illustrator ranked below a real man of science , and he therefore also sought a reputation as a theorist . |
| 12 | His blistering turn of speed , cavalier attitude and rank bad discipline made him an instant hit with the fans and yet another scourge for the beleaguered authorities to cope with . |
| 13 | The Plaza Girls , a troupe of tall dancers that were an instant hit with the public . |
| 14 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 15 | A period in Business Technical Support , in London , followed including secondment to the National Coal Board , in Grimethorpe , in south Yorkshire , as an operations engineer on a large experimental pilot plant project utilising fluidised bed technology for the efficient combustion of coal . |
| 16 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 17 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 18 | Fishing expeditions should be limited to the sort of angling , which for sportswriter Jimmy Cannon ‘ has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're after an excuse to go on the prowl round those fashion-shops again — is n't that the truth of it ? ’ |
| 20 | Weddings were an excuse to indulge in a complexity of symbols , some of which look like vestiges of atavistic and pagan ceremonies — a whiff of Pan , a nuance of Sleeping Beauty . |
| 21 | I reach over the palletwood fence and pour water from the long spout into his half-empty ice cream tub , then straighten and stare at the huge , inert body , my mind searching for an excuse to proceed beyond the shed . |
| 22 | We always found an excuse to linger round the milking parlour , warmed by the steaming animals ; watching in admiration as one of the ladies coaxed milk from pink teats into a foaming bucket . |
| 23 | as an excuse to get in the bedrooms |
| 24 | After that it would be simpler to make a journey into the country than to find an excuse to walk through the hospital doors . |
| 25 | Again we can see the effect that loss has upon us , where the first stage is shock and disbelief , and an inability to take in the reality of what is being said . |
| 26 | This indicates that drinking is often a response to an inability to cope with the many losses of old age . |
| 27 | After the age of around three months , an inability to look at an object without an eye turning in or , rarer , an eye rolling slightly outwards or upwards . |
| 28 | Many have blamed what they termed an inability to win on an inability to hit more than one shape of shot . |
| 29 | Popillia Japonica is an insect found in the soil which is brought from Japan with the tree . |
| 30 | Similarly an insect walking on the surface of a pond would have gravity counteracted by the surface tension of the water . |