Example sentences of "an [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The pallium gave Hygeberht no jurisdiction in Saxon territories or in Kent but it did afford him metropolitan rights over all the Anglian peoples north of the Thames and south of the Humber , which may suggest that Offa was seeking not just an archbishop of the Mercians but a new ecclesiastical order for the Angles of midland and eastern England .
2 An Archbishop in the hierarchy has said to me recently oh I feel the pain but Rome does not permit it .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It is an embedding of the graph in the plane of the page .
6 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
7 Berger then decided to wait until the scheduled pit stops in the hope that the Ferrari crew could steal an advantage over the McLaren mechanics .
8 Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo .
9 Snow and Hofnagel-Höhle ( 1978 ) showed the advantage of adolescent learners over adults for learners of Dutch , but add that older learners have an advantage over the very young in learning rule-governed aspects of the language , though their teenage group were superior to the adults .
10 In contrast , the synergy of four individuals working on a problem should give the group an advantage over the individuals working on their own .
11 ‘ A lot of people say the Michelins will again have an advantage over the Dunlops this year but I do n't believe it .
12 But here the writer of the detective novel has an advantage over the concocter of the detective story .
13 Yeah , I , I think again , this er deserves a good , it 's a good exercise to do this sort of thing , taking colour and black and white because you can then decide whe whether one medium has got an advantage over the other or not .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ?
18 Displacing old plant was a good idea , so was fuel diversification and obtaining the technology necessary would be an advantage for the future .
19 Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position .
20 Largeness is clearly an advantage for the male .
21 However , Gross ( 1972 ) obtained an advantage for the left visual field in recall of partially shaded grid matrices and Fontenot ( 1973 ) , Dee and Hannay ( 1973 ) and Dee and Fontenot ( 1973 ) found a left field superiority in recall of random shapes .
22 Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots .
23 That a stimulus can be processed either verbally or non.verbally helps to make sense of those otherwise anomalous findings in which verbal stimuli give rise to a LVF superiority ( Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ; Schmit and Davis , 1974 ; Wilkins and Stewart , 1974 ; Hellige , 1976 ; Martin , 1978 ; Jonides , 1979 ; Niederbuhl and Springer , 1979 ) and non-verbal stimuli such as faces ( Patterson and Bradshaw , 1975 ; Marzi and Berlucchi , 1977 ; Umilta , Brizzolara , Tabossi and Fairweather , 1978 ) , colours ( Malone and Hannay , 1978 ) or pictures ( Wyke and Ettlinger , 1961 ) produce an advantage for the right visual field .
24 With instructions to respond on the basis of the smaller letters there should be an advantage for the RVF .
25 However , longer Morse sequences yielded an advantage for the left ear , but only for the experienced operators .
26 The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method .
27 He subsequently found ( Gordon , 1978a ) that these two features show different laterality patterns , pitch yielding no ear difference and rhythm an advantage for the right ear .
28 As a general rule stimuli which are heard within , or from part of a linguistic context give rise to an advantage for the right ear whereas stimuli heard within a non-linguistic context are more likely to show a superiority favouring the left ear .
29 While this is an advantage for the parties , it does not facilitate studying the subject .
30 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 .
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