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

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1 He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland .
2 An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " .
3 Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting .
4 US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants .
5 The first area is the teaching of legal awareness in schools , now being undertaken through a collaborative project between the Law Society and the School Curriculum Development Committee on Law in Education .
6 And this costly project was being undertaken through a strong sense of duty to what he believed his father would have wished him to do .
7 The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) .
8 And throughout it all the music , first heard as an eerie sketch inside the hero 's head , skeletally indistinct and bone china fragile .
9 but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud .
10 In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history .
11 Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ?
12 However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies .
13 I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography .
14 You can use this function to wait for a specified time for a key to be pressed .
15 The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate .
16 Charles 's personal copy of the psalter ( a manuscript designed for daily devotions ) also had ivory covers , showing the prophet Nathan 's rebuke of David for his liaison with Bathsheba ( Ps 51 , Vulg 50 ) and the protection of David 's soul ( Ps 57 , Vulg 56 ) depicted as a little child on the lap of a kindly angel .
17 Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society .
18 It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later .
19 The High Court 's Sept. 2 judgment ( following a petition filed by Win Chadha , one of those named by the CBI as centrally involved in the scandal ) had intervened as a cantonal court in Geneva was due to deliver its verdict in response to the CBI 's request for assistance .
20 The reason for this is that the sub-continent 's representatives will still be competing for a one-day pot in Sharjah until the 20th .
21 As employers find themselves competing for a falling number of young workers , there is a real opportunity to change out-dated and discriminatory attitudes towards older people .
22 Well , people come on a day to day basis , like a working environment , right ? er Each individual will stay for a different length of time , it could be weeks , months , even years .
23 Its best-selling model is the Kijang , a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota .
24 The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example .
25 Like plants that jostle for a bare minimum of soil and light , human beings would eventually fill all the available territory , he warned .
26 With planning consent now received for an improved access for the physically handicapped and an extension to provide a parish office and toilet for the disabled , tenders will shortly be invited for the building works .
27 The robbers got through a rear window at Autoserve in Elm Park Road and police are anxious to trace a white box lorry seen in the car park at the time .
28 With no work to go to and nothing to do except sit in my room and think , I got through a fair number of mental scenarios by the time the next damp grey evening arrived .
29 Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night .
30 The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee .
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