Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England . |
| 2 | An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it . |
| 3 | In psychoanalytic therapy , Freud would work towards an avowal from the patient that the interpretation he offered about unconscious feelings was the right one , even though , at first , such an interpretation might be resisted or rejected by the analysand . |
| 4 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 5 | It is an embedding of the graph in the plane of the page . |
| 6 | It is quite possible to fit V8 and Auto parts to a Land Rover either by mounting the transfer box further back remotely or by fitting an adaptor between the auto box and transfer box The whole job needs a lot of re-engineering of the vehicle Depending on your disability you may find a hand operated clutch which is easy to fit or an automatic Range Rover may be the answer |
| 7 | Berger then decided to wait until the scheduled pit stops in the hope that the Ferrari crew could steal an advantage over the McLaren mechanics . |
| 8 | While the seller is there he is at an advantage over the competition ; thus part of the salesperson 's job is to try to close the sale . |
| 9 | So he has given , God gives this power within , power of the holy spirit , the indwelling Christ , in you and in me , so I 've got no advantage over you , and you have no advantage over me and the person who 's been a Christian for fifty years has n't got an advantage over the Christian who 's been a Christian for one day because that same power that raised Christ from the dead , hear that , the same power that God used to raise Christ from the dead , that is the same power that dwells in you and in me , that 's what the bible says . |
| 10 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 11 | But here the writer of the detective novel has an advantage over the concocter of the detective story . |
| 12 | ‘ A lot of people say the Michelins will again have an advantage over the Dunlops this year but I do n't believe it . |
| 13 | In contrast , the synergy of four individuals working on a problem should give the group an advantage over the individuals working on their own . |
| 14 | Largeness is clearly an advantage for the male . |
| 15 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 16 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 17 | It may be an advantage for the expert 's decision of which enforcement is sought to be accompanied by reasons , because the foreign court is likely to be more sympathetic to enforcing it in that form . |
| 18 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 19 | With instructions to respond on the basis of the smaller letters there should be an advantage for the RVF . |
| 20 | Displacing old plant was a good idea , so was fuel diversification and obtaining the technology necessary would be an advantage for the future . |
| 21 | To be aware of the limitations of different forms of publication is an advantage for the reader , who can by this means avoid unnecessary disappointments . |
| 22 | While this is an advantage for the parties , it does not facilitate studying the subject . |
| 23 | The result is that the foam comes high up on the neck which is possible an advantage on the back as extra protection to the base of the neck is offered though around the front it feels rather bulky . |
| 24 | First , I should very much welcome any extension of Welsh Question Time , because that would be such an advantage to the Government side of the House . |
| 25 | It 's always an advantage to the man that 's making the money , who 's using these guys to use this thing to divide them . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ When a home country umpire makes a mistake then , unavoidably , an impression is created that he is giving an advantage to the home team . |
| 27 | The existence of variable orthographies is an advantage to the ME dialectologist in exactly the same way that the existence of spoken variation is an advantage in present-day research . |
| 28 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 29 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 30 | England tour manager Bob Bennett said : ‘ He has been selected because we feel his experience will be an advantage to the side in this particular game . ’ |