Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blacks need to realise that affirmative action can not solve their most serious problems , whites need to remember that affirmative action does not make it an advantage to be born black . |
| 2 | Many of the villages had their ‘ experts ’ in lambing and calving but those farmers spoken to felt it would be an advantage to be able to undertake these tasks themselves . |
| 3 | One would like to think that she even found it an advantage to be an ASROG , and that Miss B. and Miss T. , who could take it in their stride , had prepared her to enjoy it . |
| 4 | In America , it was an advantage to be Irish . |
| 5 | When records are added to a file organized in this way , there is an advantage to be gained by planning the additions procedure . |
| 6 | At a formal dinner party , you have an excuse to be extravagant with the floral decorations . |
| 7 | ‘ They think they have an excuse to be mean , though . |
| 8 | 'she wanted an excuse to be at that bus-stop when Billy got off , because she knew what was going to happen . |
| 9 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 10 | ‘ One never has an excuse to be free . |
| 11 | Now he would have even more cause to think he could use their past acquaintance as an excuse to be familiar with her . |
| 12 | It was at that moment that Fabia was shaken to realise that all she was looking for was an excuse to be in touch with him again . |
| 13 | That could be erm manifested in an inability to be assertive in an adult in adult life . |
| 14 | According to him an emphasis on processes makes such great demands upon the teacher ( an insight gained when he was director of the Humanities Curriculum Project ) that any proposal for curriculum development should be regarded as tentative , having the status of an hypothesis to be tested by teachers in their own classrooms . |
| 15 | The Marine Conservation Society , a national organisation , alleges in a 54-page document that Britain has failed to meet the terms of a European directive requiring an assessment to be carried out where a proposed development is likely to have a significant environmental impact . |
| 16 | The arsenic data subset for North Wales has been specially prepared , in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada , to enable an assessment to be made of the use of arsenic in water as a pathfinder for the detection of precious-metal mineralisation and of potential natural and anthropogenic environmental hazards . |
| 17 | In the event of a lack of consensus between different professionals , or between professional and users or carers , how is the outcome of an assessment to be decided ? |
| 18 | It was an experience to be repeated many times as the canal climbed to the top of the Pennines . |
| 19 | A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve . |
| 20 | She told him that she firmly believed he was missing an experience to be treasured . |
| 21 | Both the Conservative and Labour parties appeared to draw the conclusion that it was an experience to be avoided , not one to be encouraged . |
| 22 | ‘ The majority of low-paid members feel it 's an insult to be given such a letter . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the end of the day the majority of low-paid members feel it 's an insult to be given such a letter . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah granddad I was saying you know when erm you know when Richard was saying it 's an insult to be called a cockney when he 's not a cockney . |
| 25 | It 's an insult to be called a cockney . |
| 26 | Currently working on a booklet of poems and drawings , Jan is also working on ‘ Common Senses ’ an installation to be shown at a large visual arts festival to be held during spring 1993 at Tullie House , Carlisle . |
| 27 | For an installation to be secure against fire , flood and other disasters it is essential for the primary and secondary items to be stored in different locations so that the chances of their simultaneous destruction are minimised . |
| 28 | ‘ Half an hour to be ready in all respects for the move ’ , the orders said . |
| 29 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 30 | If you treat me like an ox to be bargained for , I should be the more careful not to annoy you . |