Example sentences of "an [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be listed first among these may according to one estimate confer in the Republic an advantage averaging nearly a thousand first-preference votes . |
| 2 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 3 | In many ways it was an advantage to work broadly with such a mass of detail — cranes , windows , cars and a myraid of tower blocks . |
| 4 | But where , as in this case , a party undertakes to make a payment because by so doing it will gain an advantage arising out of the continuing relationship with the promisee the new bargain will not fail for want of consideration . |
| 5 | It can be an advantage to seek out owners of major tracts of land and minerals such as the Crown Estate Commissioners , the Duchy of Cornwall , the Church Commissioners , the Forestry Commission , sporting estates , water authorities and , increasingly , pension funds and other financial institutions . |
| 6 | 1719 for building an Schoolhouse for Killdaltan parish 20 0 0 1721 to the purchasing of the Communion Eliments 83 14 0 to the expences of an Express sent out to Mr. Anderson in Edinr. annent the Plague in Winter last , 12 0 0 to Abarew Innis for his services during that time 6 0 0 to harleing etc of the Schoolhouse of Killerow 6 0 0 1727 ffor the building of the Kirk of Kilnachtane 147:9:0 1728 ffor Schools in Islay 13:6:8 A note that the next stent is to pay £5 sterling to Allexr . |
| 7 | 1719 for building an Schoolhouse for Killdaltan parish 20 0 0 1721 to the purchasing of the Communion Eliments 83 14 0 to the expences of an Express sent out to Mr. Anderson in Edinr. annent the Plague in Winter last , 12 0 0 to Abarew Innis for his services during that time 6 0 0 to harleing etc of the Schoolhouse of Killerow 6 0 0 1727 ffor the building of the Kirk of Kilnachtane 147:9:0 1728 ffor Schools in Islay 13:6:8 A note that the next stent is to pay £5 sterling to Allexr . |
| 8 | When one reads a Paracelsian recipe for an amulet to ward off the plague , when one learns that the prime ingredient is a paste requiring eighteen dried toads , one could be forgiven for rejecting continuity between magic and science . |
| 9 | THE SUCCESSFUL UUUC MPS HAD THE NUMBERS TO HAVE ENABLED HIM TO REMAIN IN OFFICE , BUT WERE BOUND BY AN ELECTION PLEDGE NOT TO SUPPORT HIM . |
| 10 | This has been an election fought mainly on the middle ground and the Labour Party has avoided any links that might taint their respectable new image of smart suits and red roses . |
| 11 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 12 | Apart from the problem of dealing with large numbers of frightened refugees , there was also an election coming up on 10 May , and the political factions in the town were anxious that nothing should interfere with it , so there was a concerted effort to play down the possible risk . |
| 13 | Erm , I also suspect that one solution is erm not very satisfactory to one group of people and the other solution is not very satisfactory to another group of people and of course er since we are coming up to an election do n't want to offend either group of people . |
| 14 | Efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed to halt the clashes , which began when Serb nationalists launched an offensive to carve out a separate state which would be attached to a truncated Yugoslavia after Bosnia won international recognition . |
| 15 | Terrorism is an unreality born out of ignorance . |
| 16 | It was then that she realised her own power and made an instant resolve never to abuse it . |
| 17 | It is fair to add that Leeds does not seem to have been unique in this respect : reporting on an inspection carried out in ‘ ethnically diverse areas within three LEAs ’ ( including five Leeds Phase 1 PNP schools ) in March 1988 , HMI remarked that ‘ none of the three LEAs had specific policies for parent school liaison ’ ( DES 1988a ) . |
| 18 | One thoughtful article by a headteacher whose school was the subject of an inspection pointed out the need for HMI to be scrupulous in their attention to details of factual accuracy . |
| 19 | If it becomes obvious during the base leg or final turn that you are far too high to be able to get down in the chosen field , it is often possible to make an S-turn to use up some of the height . |
| 20 | The people murdered last week were every bit as innocent as were the people in the Shankhill Road , and I would be certain that the families of the people in the Shankhill Road would be horrified that the murder of their loved ones would be used as an excuse as an excuse to do exactly the same to other innocent people . |
| 21 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 22 | I like to be flamboyant and have an excuse to dress up ’ |
| 23 | She was inexperienced in the protocol of industrial action , but only too pleased to have an excuse to put off her visit to Pringle 's for a week . |
| 24 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 25 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 26 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 27 | At least I 've got an excuse to miss today 's lecture . ’ |
| 28 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 29 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 30 | ‘ I cried a lot coming out of my teens , ’ says Charlotte , now 22 , ‘ because I realised that I no longer had an excuse to play out the role of mother 's beloved charge . |