Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | In contrast , the synergy of four individuals working on a problem should give the group an advantage over the individuals working on their own . |
| 4 | While this is an advantage for the parties , it does not facilitate studying the subject . |
| 5 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 6 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 7 | The theatre of war slowly became enlarged , a fact which , paradoxically , was to prove something of an advantage to the kings of France as they tried , if not always with success , to unite their entire population in a common war effort against the English . |
| 8 | The Assembly elections of 1973 served as a guide to the Convention elections which was an advantage to the participants which they did not have for the Assembly elections themselves . |
| 9 | It is worth pointing out that Ami Pro uses the same SmartIcons as Lotus 's other Windows products — in particular 1-2-3 for Windows and Freelance for Windows and so learning their use in one package gives you an advantage in the others . |
| 10 | Small , belligerent , Robic was one of those cyclists who look like a boxer and his slight build gave him an advantage in the mountains . |
| 11 | A big animal , it is early maturing , rapid in growth and good for intensive rearing without putting on fat , but its major characteristic is its extreme double-muscling , which is an advantage in the eyes of the butcher ( the meat is very lean ) but a considerable disadvantage for purebred cows , who in almost all cases must be calved by caesarian section : the muscling interferes with natural calving . |
| 12 | He raised the lid , gazed for an instant at the contents and quietly blew away the dust from the tops of the brightly coloured pots . |
| 13 | He lowered his eyes for an instant to the parchments that littered the table . |
| 14 | Another single-deficit interpretation of Broca 's aphasia is that it is a phonological deficit ( Kean , 1977 ) : an impairment of the aspects of the language-processing system that relate to phonology ( the sounds of words , as distinct from their meanings or spellings ) . |
| 15 | An inspection of the premises is carried out and a certificate is only issued where the local fire authority are satisfied that adequate precautions have been taken . |
| 16 | ‘ Sudbury health officers acted today to close Uncle Dick 's Restaurant following an inspection of the premises . |
| 17 | Solicitors are allowed to form service companies , subject to the following conditions : ( 1 ) membership of the company must be limited to members or partners of the firm , admitted solicitors holding practising certificates , retired partners of the firm and dependants of retired or deceased partners ; ( 2 ) the books of the company must be made available where the Council of the Law Society require an inspection of the accounts under the Solicitors ' Accounts Rules 1991 . |
| 18 | An inspection of the Models and the Testimonials of the most eminent of the Medical Profession of the country can not fail to produce a decided conviction in their superiority . |
| 19 | And if , whether from an examination of the assumptions on which the doctrine depends , or from an inspection of the results both when it is acted upon and when it is not , they conclude that it is mistaken anyway , they will also dismiss the Marxist criticism . |
| 20 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 21 | An inspection of the banks and towpath has shown another 50 yard stretch is also unstable . |
| 22 | An inspection of the dogs then took place . |
| 23 | An inspection of the gadgets |
| 24 | Any suggestion to the contrary was simply an excuse for the locals to feel self-important and settle a few scores with their neighbours . |
| 25 | Foolish indeed is he who supposes that the music is only an excuse for the parties ; not only does everyone go , but everyone has opinions . |
| 26 | The worst result of the earthquake was that its consequences gave an excuse to the town-planners , not least the great urban visionary himself , to undertake grandiose schemes of urban renewal . |
| 27 | That is an hypothesis about the foundations of practical support between kin in the past which could be tested systematically against historical data , although it would be a major task and certainly is beyond my scope here . |
| 28 | The deposition of the king was followed by a reversal of the forfeitures of 1322 and an annulment of the grants that the victors of Boroughbridge had made to themselves and their supporters . |
| 29 | That is , the meaning of the combination is also influenced by an interaction between the meanings of its constituents . |
| 30 | This fact we believe to be fundamental to our understanding of how he will learn ; he will learn language through an interaction between the efforts of his own brain and events in the outside world . |