Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a prolonged course of elemental diet an elimination diet was repeated and it became evident that he was profoundly sensitive to salicylate . |
| 2 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 3 | THE APPOINTMENT of Robert Louis-Dreyfus as Saatchi 's chief executive and Charles Scott as financial director comes after a prolonged period of musical chairs involving top management . |
| 4 | A salutary cautionary note is sounded by Zillmann who concludes after a painstaking review of experimental evidence that ‘ the amount of relevant data on animal aggression from both laboratory and field investigations is nearly overwhelming . |
| 5 | After a certain amount of small talk , he says casually , ‘ Perhaps I might drop by some time . |
| 6 | That evening , after a great deal of worried thought , Seb confided in Tom Hanks . |
| 7 | We trove through forest and isolated villages and then , after a final stretch of dull road , to the sanctuary of Nemesis at Rhamnus — the least visited , I suppose , of Attic sites . |
| 8 | Preparatory ground for the visit which marked the steady improvement in links between the two countries after a 15-month period of strained relations [ see pp. 37009 ; 37357 ; 37531 ] , had been laid in October after a high-level Indo-Nepalese task force , meeting in Katmandu , reached " complete " agrement on the details of a trade and transit treaty . |
| 9 | The sows commence pregnancy after a delayed implantation of fertilised eggs of anything up to nine months . |
| 10 | Remember Oldham away last season ? 2–0 up with 2 minutes to go , it ended 2–2 ( admittedly after a ludicrous extension of extra time . ) |
| 11 | A MULTI million pound deal to provide a school meals service in London is the icing on the cake after a terrific summer of new and extended contracts for CCG . |
| 12 | THE Bradford Catholic Players are saddened by the death after a long illness of past President and Life Vice President Clare Illingworth . |
| 13 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 14 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | To give judgment upon these presentments , the ancient machinery of the Forest Eyre was once more set in motion after a long period of general disuse . |
| 16 | Similarly , events arising out of long-standing difficulties would increase risk of depression : where , for instance , a husband left home after years of arguing and discord ; a child was arrested for burglary after a long history of behavioural problems at home and school ; or a substantial fine was incurred after a long period of extreme financial difficulty ( Brown et al. , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Two years of stability after a long period of severe hyperinflation have meant that Argentine publishing has begun to show some solidly healthy results . |
| 18 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 19 | After a preparatory study of advanced oral/aural work in Year I , bilateral interpreting begins in Year II . |
| 20 | Researchers are re-assessing the benefits of re-introducing species to the wild after a small group of golden lion tamarins were found to be carrying an infectious disease which could , in the worst case , have led to the devastation of vulnerable species . |
| 21 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 22 | After a good deal of broad mockery of the group 's thespian pretensions , there follows yet another change of tack as the troupe 's hitherto self-absorbed leader , Genesius ( Louis Hilyer ) , converts to Christianity and is martyred for denouncing the oppressive regime . |
| 23 | But after a good deal of patient effort Hazel succeeded in working out enough of the stump to get a grip with his teeth . |
| 24 | Several other people had arranged to share cars and after a good deal of last-minute discussion and instructions , they were at last on their way . |
| 25 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 26 | Mr de Klerk also told parliament of plans for a government crack-down on the Azanian Peoples ' Liberation Army ( APLA ) , the military wing of the radical black nationalist Pan Africanist Congress , and of the possibility that the death penalty would be reintroduced after a recent wave of political violence in which victims have included both white and black children . |
| 27 | In July 1991 after a continuous period of widespread fighting between the various groups including the two U.S.C. factions , a conference was called at Djibouti under the chairmanship of the President of the Republic of Djibouti . |
| 28 | I have to say the results were incredibly heartening , and after a minimal amount of extra tweaking with the Quad-FX 's master controls the Boogie was powering all the effects individually , with no extra noise and no unwanted distortion at all . |
| 29 | CHICAGO Blackhawks have won the Molson Challenge and a large share of the £25,000 prize , beating Montreal Canadiens 2-1 after a scoreless period of extra time and two penalty shoot-outs . |
| 30 | There are fears that the Second Division club , £1.3m in debt , could finally go out of business today after a long-running saga of financial troubles at Underhill . |