Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five per cent complained of diarrhoea that resolved after a slight reduction of the bile acid medication . |
| 2 | I had spent Monday , after a cursory check of the Poles , making one or two repairs and improvements to the Factory , working through the afternoon until my eyes got sore and my father had to call up to me to come down for my dinner . |
| 3 | After a long-winded description of the historical background to the war , and survey of the situation in the east — hinting that the war would continue to drag on over the coming winter — Hitler , in the part of the speech which attracted most attention , demanded full powers to act immediately and ruthlessly ‘ independent of person and status ’ where anyone was found not to be fulfilling his duties to the ‘ people 's community ’ and failing in the war effort and promised an ‘ inexorable challenge to every form of corruption and omission of duty ’ . |
| 4 | After a painstaking analysis of the data , Kepler arrived at his three laws of planetary motion , that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun , that a line joining a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times , and that the square of the period of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun . |
| 5 | Indeed , the latest issue of Mission Impossible will reveal that , after a reasoned examination of the facts , we called upon Frank Gray ‘ to do the decent thing ’ ie resign . |
| 6 | He begins particularly well after a stylish account of the ‘ Miniature Overture ’ . |
| 7 | Below centre : Scott nursing his broken legs after a traumatic descent of The Ogre . |
| 8 | After a closer inspection of the young man , I doubted that he could help anyone . |
| 9 | Accordingly every politician was confronted with the sometimes unpleasant duty of suggesting a suitable replacement for a deceased minister after a delicate balancing of the claims of potential candidates . |
| 10 | Similarly , I was once asked by an Anglican leader after a long description of the birth , struggle and then growth and conversions in our new community church , ‘ Yes but , when you celebrate the Eucharist : what do you wear ? ’ |
| 11 | On the other hand , next-door-neighbour Ghana has a policy to preserve forest and look after a limited quantity of the forest , and manage it with sustained yield . |
| 12 | After a two-year tour of the Continent , he returned to England in 1799 and started a veterinary practice at 17 Giltspur Street , mainly among brewery horses and those of a similar type . |
| 13 | After a hundred lines of the coarsest prose the final juxtaposition shows a gap of ethos as wide as that between Troilus and Pandarus , but more threatening : Her intended customer is the nobleman Lysimachus , and to begin with Marina speaks a docile prose with the bawds ( IV.vi.51ff. ) , continuing with aggressive word-play in order to shame Lysimachus into naming the vice he is engaged upon ( 66–91 ) . |
| 14 | After a general discussion of the planned Middle East peace conference [ see p. 38452 ] , support for the national rights of the Palestinians was reaffirmed and Israel 's intransigence and continuation of its settlement policy condemned . |
| 15 | The Wright amendment , named after a former speaker of the House , Jim Wright , permits flights leaving Dallas 's Love Field to fly only to cities in Texas and four neighbouring states . |
| 16 | At first , the British intended to carry on regardless with that year 's dump , but were forced to back down after a concerted blacking of the cargo by trade unions . |
| 17 | After a thorough summary of the evidence he reaches the following conclusions : |
| 18 | It is a particular advantage of stock revision that titles which have been sparingly ordered originally ( probably shortly after publication , when the quality and demand for the book would be largely unknown ) can be later duplicated , or triplicated , after a proper study of the demand . |
| 19 | I WAS surprised to read in the article by Harry Mead ( Echo January 17 ) and your editorial ( January 20 ) where , after a careful scrutiny of the present troubles in Northern Ireland , both of your suggested conclusions were for accepting the defeatist attitude of the greater good subordinating itself to the prevalent evil . |
| 20 | At the same time it is plain that this is an extraordinary power and that the discretion must be exercised after a careful balancing of the factors involved — on the one hand the reasonable requirements of the administrator to carry out his task , on the other the need to avoid making an order which is wholly unreasonable , unnecessary or ‘ oppressive ’ to the person concerned . |
| 21 | The clear implication would appear to be that an individual cost-benefit approach is appropriate , with each monopoly situation being judged upon its own merits only after a careful weighing of the gains and losses . |
| 22 | After a careful examination of the bottles , I sorted one out , and poured the amber fluid into an expensive glass . |
| 23 | It is only after a careful analysis of the situation and after a general assessment |
| 24 | After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ . |
| 25 | After a few days of the Novotel , I was able to move to the Trianon , a magnificent Edwardian building , well placed right on the edge of the park . |
| 26 | After a few laps of the track we could kick a ball about or even have a go at throwing a javelin . |
| 27 | Again , it would seem that this matter could only be resolved after a detailed investigation of the particular industry in question . |
| 28 | But after a detailed examination of the house they said he was suspected of the shootings . |
| 29 | But after a detailed examination of the house they said he was suspected of the shootings . |
| 30 | After a detailed study of the Troodos massif , Gass became convinced that all the 3000 square kilometres was a fragment of ocean floor that by some monumental feat of earth moving had been stranded on Cyprus . |