Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If running more than one unit ( filter , air stone etc. ) from one pump , you can buy a slightly larger pump and use an adaptor to split the air flow . |
| 2 | I am not sure how it achieves this as all CDs start from the inside and it is not part of the table of contents ; in any case it one puts a small size CD in an adaptor ring the machine still knows you have done it — something I must look into . |
| 3 | For most people ( whether or not they have any loss of hearing ) it is an advantage to use the resonators fully . |
| 4 | In September Brandt engineered a voting defeat in the Bundestag , enabling him to call an election to exploit the popularity of Ostpolitik and restore a firm parliamentary majority . |
| 5 | This will apply whether or not an election to waive the exemption from charging VAT is in place on the property at the date the lease is granted . |
| 6 | At the same time , she felt a sense of guilt , of disloyalty , that she could even for an instant contemplate the idea of deserting her mother and turning her back on the place she called home . |
| 7 | It gives them an excuse to use the riot vans — and it beats booking drivers for speeding . |
| 8 | Coffin thought the boy was glad to have an excuse to close the interview . |
| 9 | The curse of Ham could be used as an excuse to justify the enslavement of African negroes but that did not make them members of an entirely different species ; and anyway the American Indians were not even black ! |
| 10 | It seemed that these days his friends needed an excuse to blow the family money on their own pleasure ; it had to be in a good cause . |
| 11 | To all this , Wilson believed , was added the swamping of the industry with cheap foreign labour which had also lowered the quality of British seamen applying for jobs , thereby providing the shipowners with an excuse to prefer the foreigner . |
| 12 | He used the Monmouth Rebellion as an excuse to increase the size of his standing army , from the 8,565 troops inherited from his brother , to a total of 19,778 by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 14 | Dr Galdikas maintains that the animals are not sick ( the test results have subsequently been questioned ) , and that , anyway , Tanjung Puting has a special isolation area , and that the TB tests are being used as an excuse to keep the animals in the research laboratory . |
| 15 | An opponent of the Vance-Owen peace plan , Mr Biden called on the Europeans to remove their troops from Bosnia , if they were going to use their presence as an excuse to prevent the Bosnians from defending themselves . |
| 16 | The Dauphin 's interest in delaying the transfer of territory and renunciation of sovereignty is obvious , but it has been suggested that Edward too might have been glad of an excuse to resume the war if he wanted to . |
| 17 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 18 | Emily was glad of an excuse to change the subject . |
| 19 | Most writers used the record as an excuse to reassess the group . |
| 20 | What is involved is an inability to penetrate the culture of the subject and to achieve the appropriate blend of knowledge , analysis , and affective response that is needed to perform well in an English course . |
| 21 | It is thus a defence to show that the reason for the alleged act of discrimination was not the plaintiff 's disability but rather an inability to perform the work in question . |
| 22 | For some time , I wondered whether this might explain an inability to find the Oyster Band wholly digestible . |
| 23 | Failure to have that person will almost always mean that there is an inability to build the business sufficiently quickly to attract new high-quality people or retain existing staff , and build a profit base . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most obvious cause of failure is an inability to perceive the pattern that exists in nature . |
| 25 | It is a lack , a disqualification , an inability to face the reality of their child 's disability . |
| 26 | The physical result of this apathy and lack of zest was an inability to raise the sugar concentration in the blood . |
| 27 | In order to do so we must go back to the very beginning of society , explain the original trauma and then consider what consequences it has had for modern times ; for , as we shall see in a later chapter , an inability to accept the truth about ourselves and our societies is probably the most dangerous threat to the successful solution of our present cultural crisis and is certainly the chief obstacle to progress in the sciences of man . |
| 28 | From the winter egg an insect called the leaf form hatches out and begins to suck the lower surface of its birthplace , a young leaf , causing the formation of a hollow gall . |
| 29 | The stinging of the tree by an insect causes the tree to make for it a house of green light , a balloon of anti-matter , a jewel to adorn the nakedness of the bough . |
| 30 | This is a historic town , its nucleus occupying an imposing and consequently strategic position on an eminence commanding the river Emme . |