Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an embedding of the graph in the plane of the page . |
| 2 | But here the writer of the detective novel has an advantage over the concocter of the detective story . |
| 3 | Curly horns are an advantage to the breeders of domesticated species , being less dangerous . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When the recipient of the signal sees through the deception , there may be an advantage to the signaller in producing a more extravagant signal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | SALT , for example , gave the Soviets an advantage in the number of ICBM 's ( even if the US maintained predominance in total numbers of warheads ) ; grain sales to Russia helped Brezhnev solve his agricultural problems but upset US markets ; Jewish emigration from the USSR increased but not enough to please the critics so that the US Congress ( under the Jackson-Vanik amendment ) decided to tie economic deals with Russia to greater Jewish emigration . |
| 11 | In an election for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in Alberta on Dec. 5 , Ralph Klein won a decisive second ballot victory with almost 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 12 | When Sir Bryan Thwaites , chairman of Wessex Regional Health Authority , spoke out during an election about the impossibility of NHS funding keeping up with the expectations of patients and doctors , he was promptly told by the government to keep quiet . |
| 13 | Walesa wanted an election in the autumn of 1990 , and had already been nominated as a candidate by the Centre Alliance ( a new political grouping formed by his supporters on May 18 ) , with the additional support of the Green Party . |
| 14 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 15 | Otherwise there shall be an election in the House of Commons beginning within twenty-eight days of the opening of each new session of Parliament , except that in the case of a new Parliament the election shall be held not earlier than three months nor later than six months from the date of assembly of that Parliament . |
| 16 | On 12 September 1375 the pope awarded Wakefield the lesser see of Worcester , his share of the spoils carved out between royal and papal envoys at the concordat of Bruges ; this superseded an election by the chapter of their prior , supposedly confirmed by the king . |
| 17 | As an addition to the architecture of modern Glasgow , the Eagle Building breaks little new ground in other respects . |
| 18 | Would the Bureau of Indirect Taxes resist such an addition to the complexity of their task ? |
| 19 | This is an addition to the couple of paragraphs that appeared under ‘ Five Years of Railway Slides ’ — which referred to Col. Savill 's talk — in our last issue . |
| 20 | She taught women to embroider designs she herself had made as an addition to the income of families hit by the destruction of the vines by the oidium disease in the 1850s . |
| 21 | I quite agree that certain difficulties might be imposed on the Inland Revenue if they were to pursue every deposit account and find whether or not there had been an addition to the account during the course of the year . |
| 22 | It was held that the income arising from the £2M was to be assessed basically as if a new source of income had arisen , ie there had been an addition to the account within s66(3) and the income arising from the addition would be assessed on an actual basis during the early years . |
| 23 | Usually they merely represent a transfer of ownership from one person or institution to another , rather than an addition to the stock of assets . |
| 24 | However , what follows is an attempt to give powerful currency to the notion that such an addition to the list of significant textual features is nonetheless crucial since it raises our awareness of the cultural paradigm within which our critical perspectives are themselves shaped , and goes some way toward making visible an otherwise invisible dimension of our teaching . |
| 25 | The senior , Flying Officer Jimmy Coutts , was married to a farmer 's daughter and they were expecting an addition to the family at any moment . |
| 26 | If record 113 were an addition to the file in fig. 7.15(a) , the new structure would be as in fig. 7.15(b) . |
| 27 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 28 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 29 | Baynton was an esquire of the body by 1522 . |
| 30 | The violence appears to been started by an offensive against the UDF by Zulu warlords which began in the early hours of Saturday morning . |