Example sentences of "an [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Why might this be an advantage for the retailer ? |
| 3 | Displacing old plant was a good idea , so was fuel diversification and obtaining the technology necessary would be an advantage for the future . |
| 4 | Now in her early fifties she may find her age an advantage for the stability , maturity and experience she could bring to the position . |
| 5 | Largeness is clearly an advantage for the male . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Kimura found an advantage for the left field in this task as also when geometric forms were substituted for the dots . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | With instructions to respond on the basis of the smaller letters there should be an advantage for the RVF . |
| 10 | However , longer Morse sequences yielded an advantage for the left ear , but only for the experienced operators . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | While this is an advantage for the parties , it does not facilitate studying the subject . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | While in most cases this will be unnecessary for pupils , it may initially be an advantage for the school librarian or teacher for producing lists from the database . |
| 17 | When an election for the state assembly was set a year ago , after five years of direct rule from New Delhi , the militants threatened to kill voters as well as candidates . |
| 18 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
| 19 | In accordance with the interim constitution , on April 30 the People 's Assembly held an election for the new post of President of the Republic . |
| 20 | In an election for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) in Alberta on Dec. 5 , Ralph Klein won a decisive second ballot victory with almost 60 per cent of the vote . |
| 21 | An election for the Leader shall be called upon : |
| 22 | It would of course be possible to give them to clarinets and bassoons ( let us hope that no one would wish to use an oboe for the top note of the chords — it would be terribly nasal and obtrusive here , on its bottom notes ) , but the low-placed clarinets would sound rather hollow and ‘ woody ’ for the rich effect we have in mind . |
| 23 | I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker . |
| 24 | ‘ I meant as well as an admiration for the works of Knudsen , ’ he interrupted softly . |
| 25 | And plagiarism is often the result of an admiration for the wording of the original — a feeling that such ideas could not be put better . |
| 26 | Oppenheimer 's ‘ defects of character ’ , the political indiscretions and Communist Front connections of his past , were seen to be an excuse for the real reason for his suspension : that the father of the A-bomb was ‘ lacking enthusiasm ’ and ‘ lukewarm ’ about the H-bomb . |
| 27 | It did , in any event , provide an excuse for the father of the Princess Adelaide to turn down the proposal , although it seems likely that the dubious moral reputation of his putative son-in-law also played a part in the refusal . |
| 28 | Lack of time is a perpetual problem for the ward staff and may be given as an excuse for the failure of ward teaching and supervision . |
| 29 | The Covent Garden scene is all gorblimey corn , and Shaw 's reinstated passages , bridging between scenes , seem like an excuse for the kind of business — Eliza running along stairs or surrounded by dancing couples — that would look more at home in a sixties musical . |
| 30 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |