Example sentences of "an [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At least I 've got an excuse to miss today 's lecture . ’ |
| 6 | Mick still seemed to be looking for an excuse to return home , so I chose not to make an issue of the blunder . |
| 7 | He knew , but rarely admitted to himself , that the search for Elsie was an excuse to get away . |
| 8 | Drew also quite liked an excuse to get away from Sukey on summer evenings . |
| 9 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 10 | Then she pointed to her watch , making an excuse to get away . |
| 11 | ‘ Investors used the summer doldrums as an excuse to stay away from the market in droves , ’ she read out . |
| 12 | However , her position as Treasury spokesperson has given her an excuse to stick doggedly to her brief . |
| 13 | Both PPP and IDA politicians criticized " blatant horse-trading " for Senate seats , which , they said , threatened to undermine democracy and give the army an excuse to intervene again . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had heard our voices and used them as an excuse to break away from Henry Clerval . |
| 15 | Her reticence about certain areas of her private life irked him , and he occasionally found an excuse to ring early in the hope of catching her unawares . |
| 16 | Of course , I 'm always glad of an excuse to reprint rather than write , although I did n't intend my prose to be quite so timeless . |
| 17 | The tavern also did a thriving trade in the sale of stolen horses , an activity that provided Harper with an excuse to travel deep into the Irish countryside . |
| 18 | Many have blamed what they termed an inability to win on an inability to hit more than one shape of shot . |
| 19 | An inability to mature adequately out of the phallic , Oedipal phase will usually not only result in some degree of genital inhibition later in life and a fixation on infantile sexual gratifications such as masturbation , voyeurism , sado-masochism , etc. , but also reduce the force of the cultural prohibitions which the original phallic-Oedipal trauma of our forefathers precipitated , namely those against parricide and incest . |
| 20 | The inability to compete on salary terms , which creates staff shortages for certain organisations , is compounded in many cases by an inability to offer sufficiently satisfying work to attract labour with the skills that are desired . |
| 21 | I very much hope that they are engaged in the work and committed to it , but I do n't want them to believe it 's real ; and the word involvement to me implies an inability to stand apart from the role-playing . |
| 22 | Isolated horses can develop depression , over-excitability or an inability to relate sensibly to other horses . |
| 23 | Even so , it would have been impossible for an insect to grow much larger , say to have a girth more than a quarter of an inch in diameter . |
| 24 | ‘ It took me just over an hour to drive here from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 25 | There was still an hour to wait so the Feldwebel suggested that we should have some coffee . |
| 26 | They then took 30 minutes to an hour to settle again . |
| 27 | To heat the oven we placed shavings and wood in between and around the tyres which usually took about an hour to heat sufficiently . |
| 28 | I know I must finish clearing up the lawn , but , before doing so , I decide to telephone Auntie to come over on her bike even though I know it will take her an hour to get here from Hambledown . |
| 29 | It takes ha about twenty minutes , half an hour to get here . |
| 30 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |