Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time last year we were fairly hyped-up with an election coming and people were checking if they were on the register . ’ |
| 2 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 3 | It would n't convict our man , but it gives us an excuse to go and pay a call on the Putts of Swinbrook Manor . ’ |
| 4 | Such an excuse exists if an accused ‘ damaged … the property in question … in order to protect property belonging to himself or another … and at the time of the act … alleged to constitute the offence he believed — ( i ) that the property … was in immediate need of protection ; and ( ii ) that the means of protection adopted … were … reasonable having regard to all the circumstances ’ . |
| 5 | And if not I 'll see if I can think of an excuse to try and contact her myself . ’ |
| 6 | I hope it will provide your parents ’ she stressed the word — ‘ with an excuse to come and visit me more often . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Gives me an excuse to come and put you to bed , I guess . |
| 8 | However a war like the one going on in Northern Ireland at the present is different because religion is being used as an excuse to fight and so it is being used as a negative force and not a force for the good . |
| 9 | One of the factors common to businesses that have fallen on hard times is an inability to adapt and change and a failure to recognise that the market place is changing around them . |
| 10 | It would suggest an inability to research or find a suitable purchaser . |
| 11 | A positive effect means that application of the electrode elicits some vocalisation whereas a negative effect either disrupts ongoing speech or produces an inability to vocalise or to use words properly . |
| 12 | Any abdominal operation will leave you with an inability to lift or carry things for at least a month . |
| 13 | It is therefore simplest to interpret these results in terms of an inability to remember that food has just been obtained from a particular arm . |
| 14 | The comment had some truth in it , in that the heroine did indeed have an equine cast of feature , but he made it too often , and with too little variation ; however , she was willing to forgive him , in view of his evident tolerance of her own social errors , such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream . |
| 15 | But there 's a depressing flipside , too , in the way that in some areas the organization has continually fallen short of its own ideals through an inability to admit that such shortcomings could and do exist . |
| 16 | The ILP desire to exert influence on the rest of the Labour movement was tempered by hostility to the Communists and , above all , by an inability to compromise or to sacrifice any of the Party 's independence . |
| 17 | The failure to begin to revise DB32 until 1988 symbolised an inability to recognise that Britain was falling far behind Continental practice . |
| 18 | The main features of tabes are an inability to balance when the eyes are shut , numbness , and ‘ tingling ’ sensations , ‘ lightning pains ’ , which are sharp , shooting pains , usually in the lower limbs , which may come and go in a short time or last for several days without remission . |
| 19 | Attempts to disaggregate the growth of " non-standard " employment are likely to be rendered more difficult by an inability to determine whether it is the " temporariness " , the " self-employedness " or the " part-timeness " of any particular employment which is its predominant characteristic . |
| 20 | Underlying this refusal to face up to the logic of resistance was not merely a residual pacifism , but , more importantly , an inability to accept that armaments in the hands of the Chamberlain government would make the world a safer place . |
| 21 | For the older 40-plus age groups , often high-flying career woman who have remained childless and perhaps unmarried , the principal sources of despair and anxiety are very often an inability to accept that they are nearing the end of their reproductive years , coupled with the fear of growing old and being lonely . |
| 22 | ‘ ( 1 ) If any person who has paid tax charged under an assessment alleges that the assessment was excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return , he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment ( or , if the assessment is to corporation tax , the end of the accounting period ) in which the assessment was made , make a claim to the Board for relief . |
| 23 | Once the community care reforms are implemented then entry into all forms of institutional care will be funded by the local authority only if an assessment indicates that it is the most ‘ appropriate ’ form of care for that individual . |
| 24 | If an assessment reveals that a 5 year supply of land in line with structure and local plan policies is not available , the authorities concerned should take immediate steps , consistent with those policies , to make up the deficiency . |
| 25 | If such an assessment demonstrates that the site is not suitable , will he still support his hon. Friend ? |
| 26 | They act as a bond between people through providing amusement or an experience shared and believed to be held in common . |
| 27 | In consequence , it actually masks the true reality of power in Britain and so serves as an ideology legitimising and stabilising the system as one worthy of public support . |
| 28 | The quantum theory of an atom requires that each of its components , its electrons for example , should be dealt with separately , but at worst there is only a finite number of them . |
| 29 | If an atom moves when the symmetry operation is applied , the three vectors representing its motions contribute zero to the trace of the transformation matrix , and hence to the character . |
| 30 | Everybody knows that it 's the fissioning of an atom bomb that triggers off the fusion of a hydrogen bomb . ’ |