Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be an advantage to have a low background heat if you can do so cheaply ( some people run an extra radiator off the domestic boiler ) as this will reduce heat-loss from the tanks and thus reduce the electricity cost . |
| 2 | On the one hand , it is an advantage to have a large volume of business with a minimum risk of non-payment . |
| 3 | It was an advantage to have an even number of sails as , if one went out of action for some reason , the opposite one could be taken off with it and still the mill could work without being unbalanced . |
| 4 | Four times , he said , Scots had woken up the morning after an election to find a Tory government : ‘ We can not guarantee when they wake up the morning after the election in 1997 that we will have got rid of them . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He used this as an excuse to force the prime minister , Chandra Shekhar , to sack the pro-Tiger state government earlier this year . |
| 7 | Maggie became an excuse to leave the endless collective meetings early . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It caps Eastwood 's own career as the metaphysical presence in Hollywood 's most all embracing genre — and gives KIM NEWMAN an excuse to re-spool a whole wagon-train load of Oater classics |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The family is a primitive institution that gives the rich an excuse to exploit the poor and prevents the poor from resisting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All she wanted to achieve was an excuse to feel the human warmth of his arm against hers . |
| 15 | At best it would provide him with the opportunity to strike elsewhere while my back was turned , and at worst — and he 'd see it plain enough — with an excuse to raise the whole royal power against me . |
| 16 | In this system , joint and several liability , and an inability to recover the legal costs of successful court defences , are stated to have led to unwarranted law suits , settlements out of court , and to audit firms ' being perceived as deep pockets capable of paying what amounts to a tort tax . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Poverty can lead to inadequate diet for a number of reasons , notably an inability to purchase an adequate , balanced diet . |
| 19 | It is important to understand that this ‘ code-switching ’ behaviour does not indicate an inability to keep the two varieties apart , but is used for stylistic effect , and is part of the complex linguistic repertoire of many bilingual communities all over the world . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The two final categories call for no comment at this stage beyond the fact that the fiscal evidence shows that the overwhelming majority of husbandmen did actually have less than £10 worth of personal estate ; the £10-£99 group looks like an intrapolation to accommodate a broad spectrum of well-to-do peasants ( including yeomen ) , master craftsmen and small-time merchants . |
| 23 | Okay , so it still takes the best part of an hour to move the next ten paces past passport control . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that it took the emergency services an hour to reach the injured , and that another hour went past before the 125 was able to move off ? |
| 26 | It took a quarter of an hour to reach the farthest outposts of the French right : Friant 's corps , stationed near a village called Telnitz . |
| 27 | He had set aside an hour to visit an old friend . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If you have an hour to spare every two weeks or so , and think you would make a good listener , our ‘ Caring Officer ’ would love to hear from you . |
| 30 | Used in the Gulf War by the Americans , it can be put up within an hour to create a sealed surgical unit , with environmental climate control . |