Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 25-year-old mother was helping police last night after a stabbing incident in Eastcroft Road , Grangetown , Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | Atletico beat the Greeks 4–2 on aggregate after a 1–1 draw in Piraeus . |
| 3 | Output showed a negative balance of 29 per cent. , and , after a slight improvement in October , 34 per cent . |
| 4 | This time we 'd sought peace and quiet after a hectic time in Cornwall and Lundy , and the comfortable marina at Neyland was just the job . |
| 5 | The row blew up after Britain clashed with other EC nations after a crucial summit in Brussels . |
| 6 | May 15 After a five-day meeting in Tunis , Arafat 's Fatah organization calls for a five-party meeting of Egypt , Syria , Jordan , Lebanon and the PLO to discuss current Middle East developments . |
| 7 | Industrial production , which measures manufacturing output and energy production , is tipped to have fallen back sharply in March — the latest figure available — after a sharp drop in oil and gas production . |
| 8 | After a three-year period in North America , Britten and Pears returned to the UK in 1942 at the height of the Second World War . |
| 9 | Not for Roger Twose , who has lost weight and gained stature after a successful winter in New Zealand — where his parents live — playing for Central Districts . |
| 10 | After a successful career in England , Willie Johnson followed the exodus of ageing British professional players to the US Soccer League , where he joined the Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps . |
| 11 | John Major , 47 , after a successful career in banking , and briefly as a local councillor in the London borough of Lambeth , was elected to Parliament for Huntingdon in 1979 . |
| 12 | It 's all a far cry from the last time they were at Heathrow — that was in July when they returned to Russia after a three-month holiday in Worcestershire . |
| 13 | Mobbs started work on the project in January 1971 ; in May 1972 the proposal was sent to the CNAA ; it was approved after a one-day visit in November 1972 and the first intake arrived in the autumn of 1973 . |
| 14 | WC apps : 8 Runners-up : 1958 After flirting with failure , the Swedes came through to the finals with a point to spare after a 2-0 victory in Poland in their last qualifying game . |
| 15 | The document has reappeared after a long sleep in California , and is estimated at £150,000 . |
| 16 | A friend of mine found this out when he brought a video back with him after a long weekend in Amsterdam . |
| 17 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 18 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 19 | Now near retirement after a long career in product development , Mr Dulude can presumably act without fear or favour . |
| 20 | It 's like people sometimes have problems when they come out after a long stay in hospital — or the same sort of thing anyway . |
| 21 | After a second operation in January 1945 he nevertheless visited Washington in connection with the Far Eastern war and , although dying , he wrote a scientific paper for the sixtieth-birthday tribute to Niels Bohr . |
| 22 | After a rural childhood in Schleswig-Holstein , teacher-training at Giessen and gymnastic teaching experience in Spain and Portugal , where he absorbed the rich rhythmic pattern of Iberian life , Hinrich Medau returned to Germany to study new ideas combining rhythm and physical education . |
| 23 | Stockton fire fighters swilled away a quantity of diesel after a small spillage in Portrack Lane , yesterday morning . |
| 24 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |
| 25 | Moves to dissolve the military alliance , which were first apparent at a Warsaw Pact summit meeting in June 1990 [ see pp. 37550 ] , were intensified after a trilateral meeting in January 1991 of the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 26 | HULL 'S Welsh prop Mark Jones , sent off last weekend for striking Warrington 's Gary Tees , has escaped a ban after a disciplinary hearing in Leeds . |
| 27 | HULL 'S giant Welsh prop Mark Jones , sent off last weekend for striking Warrington 's Gary Tees , last night escaped a ban after a disciplinary hearing in Leeds . |
| 28 | The company had just reopened following a shutdown after a similar incident in March . |
| 29 | A bomb blew up the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and the nearby NatWest tower on April 24th , just as life in London 's financial centre was getting back to normal after a similar episode in April 1992 . |
| 30 | So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer . |