Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it . |
| 2 | In psychoanalytic therapy , Freud would work towards an avowal from the patient that the interpretation he offered about unconscious feelings was the right one , even though , at first , such an interpretation might be resisted or rejected by the analysand . |
| 3 | In many of the analogous medieval fabliaux of a miller and two clerks , the one clerk 's designs upon the daughter are motivated by simple lust , because she is beautiful , and involve her deception too , as she is given , in the dark , what she is told is a gold ring but which is simply an iron ring off an andiron in the fireplace . |
| 4 | It is an embedding of the graph in the plane of the page . |
| 5 | It is quite possible to fit V8 and Auto parts to a Land Rover either by mounting the transfer box further back remotely or by fitting an adaptor between the auto box and transfer box The whole job needs a lot of re-engineering of the vehicle Depending on your disability you may find a hand operated clutch which is easy to fit or an automatic Range Rover may be the answer |
| 6 | While the seller is there he is at an advantage over the competition ; thus part of the salesperson 's job is to try to close the sale . |
| 7 | So he has given , God gives this power within , power of the holy spirit , the indwelling Christ , in you and in me , so I 've got no advantage over you , and you have no advantage over me and the person who 's been a Christian for fifty years has n't got an advantage over the Christian who 's been a Christian for one day because that same power that raised Christ from the dead , hear that , the same power that God used to raise Christ from the dead , that is the same power that dwells in you and in me , that 's what the bible says . |
| 8 | But here the writer of the detective novel has an advantage over the concocter of the detective story . |
| 9 | Largeness is clearly an advantage for the male . |
| 10 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 11 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 12 | It may be an advantage for the expert 's decision of which enforcement is sought to be accompanied by reasons , because the foreign court is likely to be more sympathetic to enforcing it in that form . |
| 13 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 14 | Displacing old plant was a good idea , so was fuel diversification and obtaining the technology necessary would be an advantage for the future . |
| 15 | To be aware of the limitations of different forms of publication is an advantage for the reader , who can by this means avoid unnecessary disappointments . |
| 16 | The result is that the foam comes high up on the neck which is possible an advantage on the back as extra protection to the base of the neck is offered though around the front it feels rather bulky . |
| 17 | First , I should very much welcome any extension of Welsh Question Time , because that would be such an advantage to the Government side of the House . |
| 18 | It 's always an advantage to the man that 's making the money , who 's using these guys to use this thing to divide them . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When a home country umpire makes a mistake then , unavoidably , an impression is created that he is giving an advantage to the home team . |
| 20 | The existence of variable orthographies is an advantage to the ME dialectologist in exactly the same way that the existence of spoken variation is an advantage in present-day research . |
| 21 | England tour manager Bob Bennett said : ‘ He has been selected because we feel his experience will be an advantage to the side in this particular game . ’ |
| 22 | Every stage in the process had to offer an advantage to the organism in the struggle for existence : natural selection can not plan ahead and can only promote those characters that are useful in the short term . |
| 23 | For example , an airline ticket , allowing occupation of an empty seat , costs an airline nothing — in fact , in such a case there could be a negative cost , as it might be an advantage to the airline to have an experienced crew member on the flight . |
| 24 | This is an advantage to the consumer , but not necessarily to the manufacturer , who may well have made both ! |
| 25 | When the recipient of the signal sees through the deception , there may be an advantage to the signaller in producing a more extravagant signal . |
| 26 | Finally , its admission must be seen as an advantage to the security industry and to the BSIA . |
| 27 | It is an advantage of the analysis offered in the last chapter that it is capable of accounting for authority over a group on the basis of authority relations between individuals . |
| 28 | Those who attack these interests commit moral wrongs on that society , and may indeed gain an advantage at the expense of members within that society . |
| 29 | Bilingual children should be considered an advantage in the classroom rather than a problem . |
| 30 | First , the market and third parties have a legitimate expectation to be entitled to rely on the validity of the Panel 's rules and decisions , and secondly , contemporaneous judicial review would only increase the possibility of delaying tactical litigation by an unscrupulous party to a bid in order to gain an advantage in the takeover process . |