Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Church and John Harbour , both representatives for John Murray , retired from the company in December after a joint 88 years with the firm . |
| 2 | After a consistent 14 goals in 14 seasons for Tranmere , Mungall broke the mould this term with his second goal of the campaign against Birmingham . |
| 3 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 4 | Your heart would go out to her , Wilson , if you were to see how she struggles to be her old self but is exhausted after a mere ten minutes of conversation , and then she is obliged to fall back and take no more part in it though wishing to do so . |
| 5 | After a critical few weeks of talks with the Minister-Presidents a compromise was reached by which a German government would be created , but without giving the impression that this meant a permanent division . |
| 6 | — NORTH-East discus champion Helen Middlemass won her specialist event , achieving the qualifying distance with a throw of 34.70 after a winning 9.53 metres in the intermediate shot . |
| 7 | You 'll no worry about that Rocastle business after a few wee snifters of Teachers ’ … |
| 8 | However , she leaves more cheerfully after a few choice words from one of the boys suggesting that her photograph should be changed because it does n't do her justice . |
| 9 | Three or four minutes later he heard a female with an Irish accent enquiring who wanted her : after a few cheery exchanges with the other inmates , she arrived at his pen . |
| 10 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 11 | After a few more minutes of ribald banter on our part we were startled by a flash to starboard and an explosion as a six-pound shell whizzed across our bows . |
| 12 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |
| 13 | After a few more months on other farms , he would be ready to start farming himself . |
| 14 | After a few more days in Salamanca , during which you and I could do no work in common , your friends left in a great uproar of drunken invective , shouting political slogans — which fortunately were in German — against the Franco regime . |
| 15 | After a few initial displays of outraged incomprehension , Brian had been forced to accept this as a fact of life , explaining to his colleagues and superiors , with a wry smile , that Constance was a friend of his wife 's : his wife had a taste for the eccentric , since she was the daughter of a famous artist , and , oddly enough , believe it or not , Constance was a skilled silversmith . |
| 16 | Charles rose and after a few mumbled words about thanks , and keeping in touch , and being cheerful , and seeing himself out , he left . |
| 17 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 18 | But this was achieved only because she happened to be a good listener , and , after a few leading questions about his earlier life in the high , mountainous country of the South Island , he talked almost non-stop . |
| 19 | In Syria , special forces were moved into every major town soon after the onset of war with orders to shoot to prevent further demonstrations after a few spontaneous outbursts of public protest occurred in the east of the country . |
| 20 | So after a brief twelve months in existence , ACE has paddled itself up the Swanee , its dream of emulating the success of the personal computer revolution now just a pipe-dream . |
| 21 | Mansell had started from the outside of the second row after a troubled two days with the new car . |
| 22 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 23 | Disturbingly brutal and unashamedly cold , ‘ Naive ’ is the blown out of proportion result of a thousand petty squabbles between a whole welter of influences who have little or nothing in common . |
| 24 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 25 | In other bad news , Japan 's domestic telecommunications giant , NTT , said it would cut another 30,000 jobs between 1994 and 1996 , on top of a planned 40,000 jobs to be lost between 1990 and 1993 . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Sir Lewis does not intend to rush his decision on the future of the Country Court concept , currently on ice with only six of a planned 20 hotels off the starting blocks . |
| 27 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 28 | Throughout visions of , people who also come out tonight there 's there 's been obviously er , a potential saving of a hundred thousand pounds on on members erm I I 'm not gon na I do n't that 's right . |
| 29 | Massine has given a translation into choreographic terms of a hundred musical features of the Symphony . |
| 30 | It is just one of a hundred different types of delicious seafood dishes to be found on this coast . |