Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEAN Richards went to hospital for an x-ray on his jaw after a prolonged second-half punch-up as the British Lions beat North Harbour 29–13 in Auckland . |
| 2 | However , it was seven months later , after a prolonged rent strike and a number of symbolic occupations , before the municipal government implemented the agreement , lowering the tariffs by 50% and firing the most notorious crooks employed in the market administration . |
| 3 | Many large business houses have a regular room allocation with hotels which can be placed on release after a certain time lapse if not required . |
| 4 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 5 | IBM Corp last week said that the version of DB2 for OS/2 is generally available after a successful beta test and that it has a set of software development tools for the object-oriented C++ language . |
| 6 | Food giant Hillsdown Holdings added 8p to 130p after a maintained dividend forecast and boardroom shake-up . |
| 7 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) offer as justification for this assumption the suggestion that ‘ important ’ memories retain the ability to be retrieved even after a long retention interval whereas less important memories do not . |
| 8 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |
| 9 | Thirty of 32 ( 93% ) children were cleared of H pylori after a six week treatment and nine of 12 ( 75% ) of these still remained free of H pylori after six months . |
| 10 | This was a decision that would be taken after a climactic battlefield disaster but in the meantime two alternatives were to hand . |
| 11 | But after a tough training session and several lectures during the day it 's great to wind down in front of the TV and not have to worry about anything . |
| 12 | After a magnetic resonance scan and talks with the neuro-radiologist , he decided that the lesion was more likely to be a tumour . |
| 13 | That man is Alfred Common , who retired to the town in 1919 after a glittering soccer career that was not without a hint of scandal . |
| 14 | The charges follow the death of 21 year old student , Henry Skelton after an all night drink and drugs party on December 2nd . |
| 15 | They arrived in Liverpool after an uneventful railway journey and for the second time in three months Cam walked along the dock wall looking for the Langdale ; but now there was confidence in his stride and eagerness in his face . |
| 16 | Teaching at a kindergarten , looking after an American baby boy and sharing a flat with three other girls is by no means as stimulating as meeting Anwar Sadat , President of Egypt , or dining at the White House . |
| 17 | A DARLINGTON solicitor is claiming a test case has been forged following a High Court ruling that a North-East farmer who challenged the occupation of a three-year Ministry Licence is a protected tenant and his term of possession is not restricted by Ministry approval . |
| 18 | If a thought connected to fear bombards you , visualize the object of fear in front of a solid oak door and slam the door in its face . |
| 19 | In December 1942 his committee issued the so-called ‘ Smolensk Manifesto ’ outlining their aims , and early in 1943 the existence of a Russian liberation movement and its Russian Liberation Army ( Russkaya Osvoboditelnaya Armiya , ROA ) was proclaimed . |
| 20 | In a breakthrough case on 20 March this year , four policemen in Guatemala City were convicted of the murder of a 13-year-old street child and sentenced to between 10 and 15 years ' imprisonment . |
| 21 | In the Solomon Islands , BGS geologists worked on the final phase of a six year mapping and mineral-exploration programme . |
| 22 | It has not been easy to change so quickly to the needs of a more demanding market place , but if your customers , staff or management have cause to complain of imprecise or unreliable temperature control equipment , of a poor maintenance record or of substandard temperatures at the point of consumption , we are the correct sector of engineering you require . |
| 23 | The effect of these induced voltages can be seen in the high-speed waveform of Fig.5.2(c) , in which the waveform can no longer be described in terms of a simple exponential rise and decay . |
| 24 | This is illustrated in Figure 5.11 which represents the model of a simple pulley block and shows the problems of detecting interference between the axial pin and slide plate with and without the HERMS approach . |
| 25 | The agreement made by Dr H.J. Van Roijen with Muhammad Rum , a second-rank leader , under the auspices of the American H. Merle Cochran , left much of the recaptured territory in Dutch hands , but accepted the principle of a Round Table Conference and the release of the captured leaders . |
| 26 | The current Transport Commissioner , Karel van Miert , is an ardent supporter of a pan-European rail network and is confident that he can succeed in persuading the Council of Ministers of the need for a fund . |
| 27 | IAN WRIGHT 'S equaliser papered over the cracks of a sluggish Arsenal display but it did n't stop Boro 's Lennie Lawrence dreaming of a Whyte Christmas . |
| 28 | Even lime soaps can be dispersed and solubilized , so that there is the basis of a useful emergency treatment that can be applied when the normal supply of soft water is not available or where , for some reason , hard water has been run into a vessel and it is desired to counteract its effect in situ . |
| 29 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 30 | A little shaky a little bumpy the start of a thousand mile journey that would test endurance to the limit . |