Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a cursory search the carrier was waved through . |
| 2 | Chepstow is renowned for its soft ground and even two weeks ago after a prolonged drought the going was on the soft side . |
| 3 | A meeting of Leaders and Trustees was held in the Carleton Cafe the following Friday evening , 18 December — they wasted no time — and after a prolonged discussion the decision was taken to build a new church as soon as possible and certainly within the following five years . |
| 4 | After a successful return the crowd again got at the youth and Chapman decided to let him go , ‘ though it meant sacrificing a player who , I was convinced , had exceptional possibilities of development ’ . |
| 5 | After a stagnant half-hour the game sparked into life and Thistle quickly found themselves behind to a Kirk shot from a Davie Cooper cross , and a fine Paul McGrillen strike after magnificent work by Phil O'Donnell on the left . |
| 6 | After a long while the human put the paper down and reached over to the desk by its side . |
| 7 | After a long descent the shaft widened a little , and the light of their torches showed them the interior of the mine , the southern end of the tunnellings . |
| 8 | After a long siege the castle surrendered and de Montfort 's rebellion was over . ’ |
| 9 | After a long silence the mother said , ‘ That was a bit of a surprise visit . ’ |
| 10 | After a long time the boy crossed the road and said to Oliver , |
| 11 | After a long time the man came in and said , ‘ Mr Evans , please . ’ |
| 12 | After a long time the computer said slowly , ‘ Computer is old . ’ |
| 13 | But after a two-year battle the Environment Minister has given his approval . |
| 14 | After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down , deep into the ground . |
| 15 | After a general election the monarch has the formal responsibility to ask the leader of the majority party to form a government . |
| 16 | The point is this , after a general election the party that 's won , it 's share of the vote in the most , in , in the , in the opinion poll taken most immediately after the election it goes up , it 's higher than actually what it gets in the general election . |
| 17 | That excludes the hidden cost of unofficial late starts and days lost through ‘ flu ’ or ‘ food poisoning ’ after a heavy bevvy the night before . |
| 18 | After a further 400yds the path regains the river , for a short time , by some moorings near the entrance to South Walsham Broad . |
| 19 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 20 | After a few moments the professor himself appears from a doorway . |
| 21 | They did n't say anything , and after a few moments the silence hardened and became awkward . |
| 22 | After a few minutes the water will change colour . |
| 23 | After a few minutes the noise began to subside . |
| 24 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 25 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 26 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 27 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 28 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 29 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 30 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |