Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The twelfth-century popes were committed to maintaining their temporalities by the Reform movement which was preoccupied with temporal as well as moral rehabilitation , but it was Innocent who brought the Papal State nearer a political reality than it had been before .
2 One wooden paddle later formed the basis of' the front door of' a nearby house .
3 ‘ She was found out by a couple o' the local lads who went over Charin' Cross fer a good time .
4 Anyway , nuffink 's gon na 'appen fer a long while yet so the owners are lettin' the place out fer rent .
5 They did n't know their church had bin taken over an' wuz bein' used by the Triads , as a front fer a major drugs operation .
6 Marvel at The Little Woman Behind The Man : ‘ I 'd like to sing a song fer a special girlfriend who 's kinda important to me . ’
7 I jus ' want a fair rate fer a hard job . ’
8 BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper last night sold his son , Mark , to Fulham for £40,000 , four days after a blazing family row .
9 TWO hundred people were feared dead last night after a blazing Israeli jet smashed into two blocks of flats .
10 I 'd pulled out of NARCOG after a blazing row with Hurley .
11 The mother of two had gone missing after a blazing row with her estranged husband , Jonathan , at his home in Longney , just a mile from where she was found dead .
12 The flag-draped coffin of Musician Richard ‘ Taff ’ Jones , 27 , one of the 10 Royal Marines bandsmen killed by IRA bombers at Deal , Kent , being carried from the barracks church , St Michael and All Angels , after a joint funeral service for him and Musician Bob Simmonds , 34 .
13 Britain and France , both with colonial possessions in Asia , sent small forces to fight in Korea and in Germany there were fears that the Communists might use ‘ hot war ’ tactics closer to home : Korea , like Germany , had become divided after a joint East-West occupation ; it seemed that the East Germans could emulate North Korea and try to reunite Germany by force .
14 Ron Church and John Harbour , both representatives for John Murray , retired from the company in December after a joint 88 years with the firm .
15 The opinion , which comes ten years after a joint opinion by Arden and Leonard Hoffman QC and which supersedes it , not only concludes that standards are likely to be accepted as authoritative by the courts but that they are likely to accept that that compliance with abstracts of the UITF ‘ is also necessary to meet the true and fair requirement ’ .
16 A spokesman for Cleveland police said the men were arrested after a joint operation with Tyneside police early yesterday and brought to Teesside for questioning .
17 Brett parted with Boris Becker after a fruitful association which brought Grand Slam triumphs , including Wimbledon , with the German superstar saying : ‘ Bob needs a new challenge . ’
18 The panel is minded to agree that the application is for a project of immense scale and impact and should be determined only after a far-reaching public inquiry .
19 After a lavish dinner with Paris high-society celebrities , including former supermodel Ines de la Fressange and actress Jane Birkin , she went sightseeing with her sister , Lady Sarah McCorquodale .
20 The death of the Eleventh Fürst , Johannes Thurn und Taxis , in 1990 , after a lavish life lived in anachronistic , princely , style , has revealed the financial disarray of a family previously thought to be enormously rich .
21 After a homoeopathic meeting which we had attended in London , we went to visit a psionic practitioner in the southern counties to learn a little more about this subject .
22 Many people even find themselves losing concentration or sleep after a bag-snatching incident .
23 After a three-and-a-half-hour inquiry , an angry Eddery emerged to fume : ‘ I 've got to say I 'm unhappy with the outcome .
24 In another accident two people were taken to hospital after a three-car pile-up on the A350 , near Chippenham , in Wilts .
25 A 25-year-old mother was helping police last night after a stabbing incident in Eastcroft Road , Grangetown , Middlesbrough .
26 He had been moved from the Royal Alexandria Hospital , Paisley , to the private Alexandra Nursing Home almost a year earlier having suffered brain damage after a stabbing incident .
27 After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew .
28 The normally small scabious scabiosa columbaria flowers in July and August , but if we have a wet spell now after a dry summer , then it could well flower a second time .
29 It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent .
30 Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs .
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