Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will give accepting shareholders a market for their shares when they eventually decide to sell , which is an advantage over unlisted securities . |
| 2 | This gives them an advantage over other insects in their tropical rain forest home . |
| 3 | This is an advantage for all documents written or approved by more than one author , not just the rather artificial example of education . |
| 4 | The emphasis on property-holding , and hence liability for rates , as the basic qualification for the franchise in local elections was thus an advantage for some women in the struggle for the vote . |
| 5 | White , in this issue , notes that while much has been achieved by deregulation in the US since the 1970s , regulation with anticompetitive effects remains common in the services sector , and much health-safety-environmental regulation is designed in a manner which gives an advantage to incumbent firms . |
| 6 | It would also give an advantage to non-EC purchasers of European heritage . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeals expressly rejected the first resort cases as not well reasoned , and as giving an advantage to foreign litigants . |
| 8 | It will undoubtedly be an advantage to governing bodies to have more control over the resources of their schools and greater flexibility in the deployment and use of staff , premises and materials . |
| 9 | By that point the leading group contained 22 riders with an advantage of 2 mins 20 sec over the main field . |
| 10 | The differences in daily activity pattern give predators an advantage at different times , so that diurnal raptors have the advantage during the day , and nocturnal species the advantage during the night . |
| 11 | It is almost certain that the presence of a product champion can be an advantage in such circumstances . |
| 12 | Which you know is an advantage in other ways as well I think , because if you know she 's being paid scale two you know other responsibility comes with it as well |
| 13 | Gary is qualified to criticise ; following in the footsteps , as it were , of Douglas Bader , one of his earlier flights involved an embarrassing thud followed by a wheelchair , which Gary says is an advantage in many ways because now he can stay aloft at great heights without getting cold feet . |
| 14 | 8.15.8 It may be an advantage in some cases |
| 15 | On the other hand , this lower molecular weight is an advantage in some applications since it means that extruded sheet thermoforms more easily than cast sheet . ’ |
| 16 | There is an advantage in modular courses , but I regard it as administrative and economic rather than academic . |
| 17 | It is not grave because there need n't be an election for two years and more . |
| 18 | In the case of a ‘ general election ’ , i.e. an election for all seats contemporaneously , the process is triggered by the issuing of the proclamation of summons . |
| 19 | There was also a suggestion that the bidder may be a financial buyer , looking at the company as an investment rather than an addition to existing operations . |
| 20 | As his biographer has pointed out it was to be a long time ‘ before he had an equal in the study of archaeology on a scientific basis or as an illustrator of archaeological relics ’ ( Jessup 1975 , p. 109 ) . |
| 21 | What the hell did I expect , an ogre with two heads ? |
| 22 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 23 | Their abolition increases costs , encourages an over-proliferation of uneconomic developments , stifles the mobility of the poorest and generally inhibits rational urban planning . |
| 24 | However , an inspection of both projects ' cash flows might cause most readers to query this preference since the total cash inflows of Project B exceed those of Project A by £20,000 . |
| 25 | are apparent on an inspection of any properties ; or |
| 26 | Despite an admiration among certain circles for National Socialism , for example , many aspects of Western culture met with disfavour , though Western economic , industrial and military practices were widely followed . |
| 27 | This view of kinship as an opposite to capitalist relations of production explains the vivid interest with which Marx and Engels examined the work of such anthropologists as Bachofen , McLennan , and Maine , who were all concerned with this topic ; but above all it explains once again why Morgan should have been so important for them , since he above all was the expert on kinship . |
| 28 | ‘ This new revelation demonstrates that the new spending review is not an objective assessment of needs but an excuse for deep cuts in public services , threatening thousands more jobs . ’ |
| 29 | The blackout precautions were a constant worry to Julia , and Eileen declared that they were an excuse for petty tyrants to enjoy themselves . |
| 30 | Bruce Grobbelaar yesterday warned that Liverpool could not use the absence of manager Graeme Souness as an excuse for sub-standard performances . |