Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was just as an excuse to get her latest lover into the house . |
| 2 | An arrow shot almost accidentally by the Bishop of Bradford had given the press an excuse to break their self-imposed conspiracy of silence and bring the whole matter into the public domain . |
| 3 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 4 | WHEREAS MOST brands view a live performance as an excuse to caress their inflated egos , The Shamen prefer to remain tucked away in the background — visible yet vulnerable . |
| 5 | Now I 'm looking for an apartment to call my own , then I will be able to leave all my bags there and have something to return to . |
| 6 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 7 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 8 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 9 | Her idea was to stick a piece of Sellotape between your eyebrows for an afternoon to make yourself aware of how often you frowned , so that you would know to do it less . |
| 10 | The pool liner also gives the gardener an opportunity to do what most other forms of construction are not flexible enough to allow , and that is to construct a bog garden as an integral part of the feature . |
| 11 | This was , in fact , the key to Franco 's foreign policy throughout the Second World War : he viewed it primarily in terms of an opportunity to realize his own expansionist aims in Morocco . |
| 12 | But , having raised expectations , the regime then stopped moving towards the logical sequel , which would have been to offer the electorate an opportunity to replace its present leadership with a new one . |
| 13 | But his wife had said that it was time for an opportunity to wear something other than thick tweeds . |
| 14 | According to this view , de Gaulle was calculating that his resignation would produce a groundswell of popular annoyance with the parties or would give the politicians an opportunity to display their full incompetence — either of which outcomes would lead to de Gaulle 's rapid reinstatement , this time with a popular mandate to create the kind of constitution that he favoured . |
| 15 | And the quality systems will help us to monitor and identify where things are going wrong and once we know what is going wrong , we 've got an opportunity to put it right . |
| 16 | WILLIAMS , formally ] I am very glad to see you well and I am very glad of an opportunity to acknowledge your good intentions when you believed me in distress . |
| 17 | The tale of La Sylphide gave him an opportunity to exploit her expressive arms and face as well as her ability to dance sur les pointes . |
| 18 | The Bolsheviks might wish to prove their democratic credentials to the subject peoples , but the Great Powers would inevitably see this as an opportunity to advance their own interests or eliminate a threat to them . |
| 19 | The legislation gave the Government generally and the Home Office in particular an opportunity to bare its liberal soul . |
| 20 | Seb and Christian had not found an opportunity to have their promised talk by the time the first of the local fairs came around . |
| 21 | When my right hon. Friend last met the CBI , did he have an opportunity to discuss its recent report on manufacturing industry in which it said that the Government should have no role in backing winners , which is precisely the Opposition 's policy ? |
| 22 | Nor was he given an opportunity to present his own view of feeling in Washington when he returned to London . |
| 23 | The Training Trust are running a five-year staff training programme in Romanian orphanages , and see this competition as giving everyone an opportunity to develop their artistic talents , and to raise funds for needy youngsters . |
| 24 | He benefited from the way the highly productive film industry of the 1930s had given filmmakers such as Powell , on quota films , and David Lean , as a film editor , an opportunity to develop their creative skills and judgement . |
| 25 | And the glint in his eye as he had enjoyed her earlier discomfiture convinced her he would not miss such an opportunity to embarrass her further . |
| 26 | Many of the suggestions made by the Government in the citizens charter give us an opportunity to contribute our own ideas to what should go into the citizens charter and for those ideas to expand and to grow as a result of the kernel in the programme that the Government have produced . |
| 27 | Ironically the British soon saw this as an opportunity to cut their own forces . |
| 28 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 29 | Edward 's absence from England at the siege of Calais gave the Scots an opportunity to assist their French ally by invading the northern counties . |
| 30 | Its principal aim , according to Mellor is that there should be ‘ something for everyone in all parts of the country , and that everyone should have an opportunity to try something new and widen their horizons ’ . |