Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 2 | Here was an Archbishop after their own hearts . |
| 3 | Christian activists however have an advantage over their secular allies . |
| 4 | She also realised that she had an advantage over her mother 's generation because she had worked , and was more inclined to go out and do things in her retirement . |
| 5 | Consumer ministers decided experiments must stop from 1998 , but firms can ignore the ruling if it gives rivals an advantage over them . |
| 6 | Is it not a considerable tribute to our diplomacy that we were able to persuade our Community partners to allow us to gain an advantage over them ? |
| 7 | The people who 've been going through the induction courses though for the last six months or so , they 're probably up , more able to speak to it , and you 're going to be better off actually than the , the old boys if you like and girls , because it 's going to be old dogs , new tricks , but as you wo n't know any different and you do this , then you 'll have an advantage over them . |
| 8 | And I ca n't , of myself , even produce the faith for it , otherwise , you might have an advantage over me . |
| 9 | The simple fact that he was in her husband 's employ gave her an advantage over him . |
| 10 | However , because of the way it relates in this work , they are only fifty percent present in my sibling , so any sacrifice of gene me er , it 's not my actual inquest for your finding of the problems , the reason is , this is something we did last term in , in penaltriusm theory , so the others have got an advantage over you , they 've already done it this time . |
| 11 | ‘ It gives us an advantage over our competitors who are not used to playing on astro-turf . |
| 12 | Nor you , we know , but still , somehow , by some quirk , you may get faith , you may produce it yourself , that gives you an advantage over anybody else . |
| 13 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 14 | This does not derogate from his duty to act honestly and faithfully towards his customer and the broker must not conceal material facts in order to obtain an advantage for himself . |
| 15 | But , Fisher suggested , if distasteful prey live in family groups , the predator can learn to avoid the distasteful families , thereby conferring an advantage on them . |
| 16 | It 's such an advantage to them later on I think . |
| 17 | But an advantage to them ! |
| 18 | The experiments confirmed Cooke 's supposition that the compact form and relatively large foot of the exposed-shore morph-evidenced by the large broad aperture of the shell-confer an advantage to their owner under conditions of powerful wave action or other strong water movement . |
| 19 | Finally , again as mentioned above , a lessee sometimes holds a share in the management company responsible for the maintenance of the building and grounds , which is an advantage to him or her in giving him or her a say in these important matters . |
| 20 | From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online . |
| 21 | That maybe the idea , but there are so many things to be done by voluntary workers if people would only say well I 've got half an hour an hour it could be so much of an advantage to whoever they 're giving their services to because we 're having to cut costs on this and costs on that an hour or two given voluntary would cover those jobs that we ca n't get the money to pay for . |
| 22 | It does not amount to an argument that staff should be conducting research as such ; merely that if they are engaged in it , there is an advantage to it being undertaken with an eye to their teaching commitments . |
| 23 | Lord Vestey , Chairman of Cheltenham Racecourse , says it 's an advantage to us becasue we 're used to holding three day meetings . |
| 24 | Never before , in all the years of his work upon the project , has Christo been championed by the Bundestag 's president , but , paradoxically , Dr Suessmuth 's position of authority may be as much a hindrance as an advantage to his cause . |
| 25 | 6 The question of detriment It has been suggested in some cases ( see eg Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd [ 1969 ] RPC 41 ) that an obligation of confidence will not be enforced unless the disclosure or use of the information results in a detriment to the plaintiff or an advantage to his competitors . |
| 26 | If that 's something you want us to is it something you would that be an advantage to you . |
| 27 | Cos that is an advantage of it . |
| 28 | Nationalised industries usually have an advantage against their ‘ sponsoring ’ ministry in that their management is more continuous than that of ministers and mandarins , but this was not the case for Citrine . |
| 29 | The stability of the organochlorines , an advantage in their industrial applications , ensured that they were not broken down in the natural environment . |
| 30 | It was up to her , quickly , to forge herself a manner that would give her an advantage in whatever negotiations were to come : and she had done so , by the time he came down for his breakfast . |