Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However for many academics , particularly in the areas of industrial sociology and industrial relations , the focus on labour flexibility was seen as an excuse by management to blame the workforce for the problems endemic in British manufacturing , Sweeping generalisations about the degree to which the British workforce had accepted changes and become more flexible were found questionable and often dismissed as being exaggerated or as having always been in existence . |
| 2 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 3 | When they started out , Yorkshire women clearly thought it was an admission of defeat to get the caterers in , but no longer . |
| 4 | And in the same year as Agazzari , Giovanni Gabrieli 's German pupil Gregor Aichinger ( 1564–1628 ) published at Dillingen his Cantiones ecclesiasticae , partly composed earlier in Rome in admitted emulation of Viadana , with an appendix in German explaining the ‘ Bassus Generalis Et Continuus ’ . |
| 5 | It gave an opportunity for entrepreneurs to acquire the lands , workshops , fishponds and mines which the monks had worked , and to integrate them into the developing secular economy . |
| 6 | There is an opportunity for agencies to redefine the business they want to be in , and find ways of building business and opportunity in areas once not perceived as part of advertising . ’ |
| 7 | It was an opportunity for people to see the positive side of dog ownership , and we readily agreed to produce a team . |
| 8 | A period as a hospital inpatient is an opportunity for patients to break the habit , particularly those who have disease related to smoking or are at high risk , such as those with diabetes . |
| 9 | The more ancient Antarctic specimens provide an opportunity for meteoriticists to compare the types of planetary debris that followed orbits around the Sun and across the Earth 's path half a million years ago , with those colliding with the Earth today . |
| 10 | On Friday 17 July there will be an opportunity for graduates to visit the Social Sciences Faculty 's new building in Woodland Road and to hear presentations by some of the Faculty 's leading researchers . |
| 11 | One — extreme — interpretation is that governments suspected communications that they did not control : many an allegation of phone-tapping marked the politics of the Fourth and ( early ) Fifth Republics . |
| 12 | By an originating summons dated 18 December 1991 the plaintiffs , the Halifax Building Society , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society , the Leeds Permanent Building Society , and the Alliance and Leicester Building Society , sought ( 1 ) a declaration that , upon the true construction of the ombudsman scheme recognised under Part IX of the Building Societies Act 1986 , the first defendant Stephen Bristow Edell , the ombudsman appointed under the scheme , was not entitled to investigate or determine ( a ) the complaint against the first plaintiff received by him from Michael Robert Allen and Christine Allen , the second and third defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation for mortgage assessment prepared for the first plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( b ) the complaint against the second plaintiff received by him from Jeffrey Leonard Brommage and Heather Maureen Brommage , the fourth and fifth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the second plaintiff had been negligently prepared , ( c ) the complaint against the third plaintiff received by him from Lawrence Frederick West and Christa West , the sixth and seventh defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for the third plaintiff had been negligently prepared , and ( d ) the complaint against the fourth plaintiff received by him from Joseph Paul Hardcastle and Astrid Marie Hardcastle , the eighth and ninth defendants respectively , alleging that the report and valuation prepared for them had been negligently prepared ; and ( 2 ) a determination , upon the true construction of the scheme , whether and if so in what circumstances the first defendant was entitled to investigate and determine a complaint relating to an allegation of failure to exercise the requisite degree of professional skill and care on the part of a valuer or surveyor employed by the building society against which the complaint was made in relation to a report by him on the condition or value of any property where the report in question consisted of : ( a ) a written report prepared pursuant to section 13 of the Building Societies Act 1986 for a building society on the value of the land which was proposed as security for an advance to be made by the society and on any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value and is not disqualified under section 13 from making a report on the land in question , ( b ) a written valuers ' report and valuation for mortgage prepared for the first plaintiff , ( c ) such a report prepared for the second plaintiff , ( d ) such a report prepared for the third plaintiff , ( e ) such a report prepared for the fourth plaintiff , ( f ) a house buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors , ( g ) a flat buyer 's report and valuation prepared by a chartered surveyor , ( h ) a home buyer 's standard valuation and survey report prepared by an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard terms of engagement of the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers , ( i ) a written report known as a ‘ home purchase report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the second plaintiff , ( j ) a written report known as a ‘ house buyer 's report ’ prepared by a chartered surveyor or an incorporated valuer and auctioneer subject to the standard conditions of engagement of the third plaintiff , or ( k ) a structural survey report . |
| 13 | Create this easy-to-make blind by cutting an oblong of fabric to fit the window and hemming all its edges . |
| 14 | The move was seen as an attempt by Israel to defuse the worsening crisis in its relations with the United States , which had in October voted for the sending of a UN mission to Jerusalem . |
| 15 | In Japan as elsewhere the commitment to employment security is an attempt by firms to reduce the turnover of key employees and so avoid transferring the benefits of training programmes to rival firms . |
| 16 | This led to an attempt by Chris to measure the chest depth and head size of the others . |
| 17 | China is angry over Hong Kong people 's support for the democracy movement and some see the border dispute as an attempt by Peking to press the government to take action against the Hong Kong Alliance , a political group that has provided financial support to China 's democracy movement . |
| 18 | An attempt by GAMTA to persuade the CAA to allow commercial pilots aged over sixty years to make single-pilot public transport flights for pleasure flying and also to undertake aerial work operations has been unsuccessful so far , the Association reports in the British General Aviation Bulletin . |
| 19 | The elevation of Clark and Mazankowski — both of whom were from Alberta — was seen as an attempt by Mulroney to reassure the country 's western provinces that their interests would not be sacrificed to the demands of Quebec . |
| 20 | This group was quite influential among leading trade unionists ; and at the 1943 annual conference of the Labour Party they carried an amendment against an attempt by Stokes to reject the liability of ‘ the German people as a whole for the atrocities committed under Nazism ’ . |
| 21 | This ‘ counter trend ’ , or , reregulation , is largely an attempt by governments to maintain the confidence of the investing public in the financial markets . |
| 22 | As in the 29 other instances , an attempt by Congress to override the veto failed to muster the required two-thirds majority . |
| 23 | They have an album of photos showing the house at different stages of completion over a period of 18 months . |
| 24 | VWAG moved that service be quashed , arguing that VWoA was not its agent for service , and that an attempt to serve process on an agent in Illinois violated the Hague Convention . |
| 25 | It had a long colonial veranda and a high cupola , while the terminus of the railway , Tank Road Station at the docks , had a tower which made it an aid to ships navigating the harbour . |
| 26 | Leeds were quoted at 20–1 to win it , even though they 'd just shown an interview with Howard saying the squad we have now is better than the one we had when we won the thing . |
| 27 | However , the vendor company may prefer a share sale preceded by an extraction of dividends to depress the value of Target down to the net value of its assets less liabilities . |
| 28 | What 's more , as soon as he heard of your problem , Direct Delivery 's manager immediately visited your home and , although it was agreed that the damage was purely accidental , as an act of goodwill toured the shops in Lisburn to try and find you a replacement . |
| 29 | Such an act of statesmanship appears the only way to avoid an outbreak of fighting between the two giants of the Commonwealth . |
| 30 | It is an act of love to roll the toothpaste tube if we know that squeezing it in the middle irritates our partner . |