Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Middlesbrough reserve bounced back to form after a spell on the sidelines by hammering a hat-trick in the 6–1 win over Harrogate Town on Tuesday . |
| 2 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 3 | Shell Expro 's main office at Altens and the head office of Elf Caledonia at Bridge of Don also had to be cleared yesterday after a warning to the police that bombs would go off at the four sites at 9am . |
| 4 | After a consideration of the theories , the case law from both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be examined . |
| 5 | After a close-up of the animals a split screen enables buyers to see still see the animals and relevant details including the current bid in the upper half and auction room with brokers delivering telephoned bids in the lower . |
| 6 | UEFA also agreed to put back the forthcoming tie 24 hours after a request from the Blues who were concerned about the damage live TV would inflict on gate receipts . |
| 7 | The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use . |
| 8 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 9 | marked the end of an era for five senior managers at who retired after a life-time in the maltings industry . |
| 10 | With a little imagination we can see our village bowmen , after a day on the butts retiring as many later sportsmen have done to refreshment at the Five Bells to talk over their prowess with the bow . |
| 11 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 12 | Traditionally , after a day in the steelworks , the coal mines , people used to quench their thirst to replace the liquids they 've lost . |
| 13 | After a year in the margins , Mr Lo re-entered the political mainstream in a new job — and one which clearly indicated where he thought Hong Kong 's future would now be decided . |
| 14 | Although the language was a bit complicated you were able to understand it after a while through the actors way of raising and lowering their voices . |
| 15 | After a tour of the facilities , our guests were fed and watered . |
| 16 | After a period under the Domenicans , the Poor Clares returned once more to their convent but the buildings then suffered from the fire in the Old Town in 1689 . |
| 17 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 18 | Women from all over the country will stage a mass sit-in at the atomic weapons establishment in Burghfield , Berks , today after a protest outside the gates yesterday . |
| 19 | Le Déjeuner — a simple midday meal after a morning in the fields . |
| 20 | There are several in Winchester , mostly mediaeval bishops whose stone effigies look like undernourished third-world corpses after a visit from the vultures . |
| 21 | After a bat against the spinners , he moved into the faster net to face the English pacemen . |
| 22 | It was in the boot-and-brushing room that Nicandra found her at last — after a search through the larders , the dairy , and the empty laundry , its warm steam now subsided into a vaporous chill . |
| 23 | On Nov. 15 the PNC candidates for seats on municipal councils were declared elected unopposed after a boycott of the elections by the five-party opposition Patriotic Coalition for Democracy ( PCD , which included the PPP , first formed in 1986 — see p. 34163 ) which had demanded electoral reform . |
| 24 | It is unsporting , and great fun , to look back after a match at the prophecies of the pundits . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 26 | He said that Scottish Office management had undertaken to review procedures after a meeting with the unions . |
| 27 | Its in black and white Take after a lot of the Nazis are strange . |
| 28 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 29 | Four members of the IRA were shot dead by soldiers on Feb. 16 after an attack on a police station at Coalisland ; another two men were injured . |
| 30 | Reports on Aug. 2 said that hundreds of people were killed after an explosion at an arms depot in Kabul thought to have been triggered by rockets fired by mujaheddin . |