Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One time music journalist and stop-gap producer for Radio 3 , he started in the industry after a B. Mus. at Edinburgh and a spell of teaching , by asking for a job at the sadly missed EMG , then in Soho Square . |
| 2 | The 1992 budget was approved in the Knesset by 60 votes to 53 with one abstention on Jan. 2 , two days after a Dec. 31 deadline and a matter of hours before the government was to press for approval of a one-month provisional budget . |
| 3 | But shell-shocked Sheffield forged into the lead after a Mark Aston penalty goal and a try by Bruce McQuire . |
| 4 | The Labour Party 's executive committee stressed after a Feb. 22 meeting that the government had to make a clear decision on the formula within two to three weeks , otherwise it would be forced to end the coalition . |
| 5 | The speculation was heightened after a Feb. 13 visit to Damascus by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German Foreign Minister . |
| 6 | To Aldgate then I came , burning , burning after a Badedas bath , when things happen ! |
| 7 | Things happen after a Badedas bath |
| 8 | But two minutes into injury time their defence got into a tangle after a Logrones throw and let the ball run through to Agustin Abadia , who thumped in his second goal of the day to level the scores . |
| 9 | The relationship between Chalerm and Chaovalit was already strained after a CCC investigation into the television company Mass Communication Organization of Thailand had found its director-general Rachan Husen — a close associate of Chalerm — guilty of irregularities . |
| 10 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 11 | Dissent flared into civil war after a Sunday Telegraph Gallup poll revealed opposition to the Maastricht Treaty was at an all-time high among Tory backbench MPs . |
| 12 | But there 's renewed speculation that the Duke is seeking to disinherit his eldest son , in favour of his younger son , Edward , after a Sunday magazine interview with Lady Blandford , Jamie 's wife . |
| 13 | With Morris brought off for a deserved breather , Mark Burns took over the duty of penalty taker after 58 minutes , the award coming after a Nigel Allister stick chop , and it was 5–1 . |
| 14 | His comments come two days after a Birmingham coroner at an inquest on two men killed when their van was struck by a police car accused force drivers of using TV car stunt tactics |
| 15 | In 1980 the Italian Attiero Spinelli and other parliamentarians founded the ‘ Crocodile Club ’ ( named after a Luxembourg restaurant ) to draw up plans for institutional reform , and in 1981 Parliament established an Institutional Committee with Spinelli as a member . |
| 16 | On the day that British Athletic Federation officials were deliberating the fate of disgraced European indoor 60 metres champion Jason Livingston , sent home from the Barcelona Games when traces of Methandianone were found in a drugs sample , British team captain Christie hit out after a London awards ceremony . |
| 17 | THE final episode of the Coronation Street libel drama was a cliff-hanger to the very end — even after a London High Court jury had awarded actor Bill Roache £50,000 damages . |
| 18 | Ski shows up but is reluctant to talk to the press after a New York Daily News story labelled him and his friends ‘ reformed gang members ’ . |
| 19 | The decision arose from the case of Nancy Curzon , who was allowed to die on Dec. 26 after a Missouri court authorized the removal of her feeding tube [ see p. 37911 ] . |
| 20 | In the Littlewoods Cup two goals by Derby 's McMinn disposed of West Bromwich Albion , and Manchester City 's misery continued when Coventry put them out with a 16th-minute goal from Regis after a Redmond error . |
| 21 | It started with a 66th-minute goal from Marcus Stewart after a Paul Hardyman throw-in . |
| 22 | The UK government lodged a strong protest on Sept. 2 after a UK national , Martin Wainwright , was sentenced on Aug. 31 to 10 years ' imprisonment on charges of illegally entering Iraq from Turkey . |
| 23 | Neither Becker nor Stefan Edberg is likely to enter Milan next year as it comes directly after a Davis Cup week . |
| 24 | I 'm quite concerned that my four year old daughter is after a Sindy doll and wondering whether perhaps Sindy dolls should n't be produced in erm such diverse figures as real life ? |
| 25 | The episode has embarrassed German authorities particularly in regard to supposedly stringent security imposed after a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988 by a bomb allegedly placed aboard at Frankfurt . |
| 26 | The episode has embarrassed German authorities particularly in regard to supposedly stringent security imposed after a Pan Am jumbo jet was blown up over Lockerbie in 1988 by a bomb allegedly placed aboard at Frankfurt . |
| 27 | Members of the local authority are set to review their links after a South African delegation , on a fact finding mission to the North-East , were refused a meeting with council leaders . |
| 28 | Coming shortly after a US physician declared in the New England Journal of Medicine ( vol 307 , p 1518 ) that confidentiality in medicine is — ‘ old , outgrown , useless and decrepit ’ , this was a welcome reassurance . |
| 29 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 30 | The Justice Ministry issued a statement denying that the Minister 's remarks were racist , but on Sept. 25 , after a US State Department statement describing his remarks as " offensive to the American people " , Kayijama apologized and retracted his statement , saying that it had been " completely inappropriate " . |