Example sentences of "[prep] a minor [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG model told last night how she was brutally beaten after a minor row in a nightclub . |
| 2 | THE Queen Mother was today ‘ comfortable ’ after a minor operation to remove an obstruction from her throat . |
| 3 | She did not see Gedge until six weeks later when he arrived at their door after a minor road accident . |
| 4 | The Venue , as it was called , opened on Halloween night , 1978 , after a minor crisis involving fire-officers refusing to grant the appropriate permits . |
| 5 | Proctor was in light training yesterday after a minor knee operation on Saturday . |
| 6 | Mustoe could be out for six weeks with a groin injury , while Proctor will miss two or three weeks after a minor knee operation . |
| 7 | After a minor accident in Oxfordshire , a man in his 50 's attempted to leave his damaged car . |
| 8 | Haematomas may need draining by means of a minor procedure carried out in the surgical unit of your local hospital . |
| 9 | This is a delightful book which has all the makings of a minor classic . |
| 10 | The schools selected for evaluation were among those identified by DCSLs as having made interesting and effective use of a Minor award . |
| 11 | The letters and photographs were part of a minor damage limitation exercise by the Mayor , who was angry last year after Darlington scored a public relations golden duck . |
| 12 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |
| 13 | An auspicious debut — and something of a minor success in Britain , remarkably so considering they were too busy traipsing around the States with Revolver to take time to promote it here . |
| 14 | , Sir Geoffrey ( c. 1200–1274 ) , royal minister , was the son of a minor knight with property at Siddington in Gloucestershire and at Pinley near Coventry . |
| 15 | The new scheme involves the widening of a minor road through the Aspe Valley — home to a colony of 10 bears — in order for it to serve as a major access highway to a new tunnel under the Somport Pass , across the Spanish frontier . |
| 16 | Kylie will never forget the major role PWL played in changing her life , making a millionairess out of a minor TV star , and is prepared to defend them to the hilt . |
| 17 | Broadly , there was stability in the marriage rates from the 1870s to the 1940s , although there appears to have been something of a minor dip in those getting married in the late 1920s and 1930s . |
| 18 | The fault element in section 20 has been further broadened by the decision in Mowatt ( 1968 ) : there is no need to prove recklessness as to wounding or grievous bodily harm , so long as the court is satisfied that D was reckless as to some physical harm to some person , albeit of a minor character . |
| 19 | This can result in a relatively rapid turnover of cultural fashions , as one project of this kind succeeds another , and this area of relatively rapid innovation — often of a minor kind — has been important in the later twentieth century , as a direct function of the expansion and increased rate of internal circulation of the market itself . |
| 20 | In 1562 — 3 clothiers from East Grinstead , Petworth and , unexpectedly , Alfriston , in the heart of the Downs , even Chichester , were fined at Blackwell Hall ; as well there are signs of a minor centre of activity near Steyning ; and at least five clothiers of Midhurst controlled weavers in Bepton , Lodsworth and other villages nearby . |
| 21 | Like so many Victorians he looked the part , his face possessing an authority worthy of a minor prophet . |
| 22 | Born in about 1819 , the son of a minor chieftain in the district of Kwara in western Abyssinia , this outstanding man started his career as an outlaw with a small but devoted following ; by 1854 he had subjugated Gondar and Gojjam and the following year , having defeated at Derasge in Simien his most formidable rival , the ruler of Tigre , he proclaimed himself Emperor and took the name of Theodore . |
| 23 | I am in the process of fitting scaffolding runner boards to offer some protection , but it is still a concern that I could explode because of a minor accident Are there any cases of this happening ? |
| 24 | A spokesman said : ‘ He was tested positive after a report of a minor accident . |
| 25 | Akoka Doi , the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources , was elected as PAP leader on Oct. 5 , and became Deputy Prime Minister on Oct. 7 as part of a minor Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 26 | Other transactions included the sale of working interests in the producing Balmoral and Maureen fields to Pentex Oil for US$30 million [ last summer , Pentex bought the onshore interests of LASMO including the oil producing Stockbridge field in southern England ] ; the sale of interests in blocks 22/27a and 29/2a both containing gas discoveries , to Enterprise Oil for £15.2 million ; and the sale of a minor interest in Netherlands block K9 to a subsidiary of Goal Petroleum for £2.2 million . |
| 27 | Acting for the owner of a minor interest , if protection is required this will be by registration of a Notice , caution , restriction or ( rarely ) inhibition . |
| 28 | That way lay nothing but the chairmanship of a minor merchant bank . |
| 29 | A year later another branch to Holt , ultimately Cromer , was completed and Melton stood at the centre of a minor railway junction . |
| 30 | THE UNMADE BED by Franoise Sagan Allison & Busby , £6.99 HAILED as a highly important and compulsively readable novel when it was first published in 1978 , The Unmade Bed now seems like the work of a minor novelist at the end of her tether . |