Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another accident two people were taken to hospital after a three-car pile-up on the A350 , near Chippenham , in Wilts . |
| 2 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 3 | Following the Olympic bronze medalist Denis Stewart 's decision to retire from competition after a poor performance in the world championships in Belgrade , two months ago , the No.1 spot was up for grabs . |
| 4 | In state elections in Hesse , Germany , on Jan. 20 , the Greens were able to improve their position after a poor showing in the German general election in December ( when the party had lost representation at federal level — see ED no. 41/42 ) . |
| 5 | It is hoped that ‘ Boscastle ’ will be in service early in 1992 after a major effort by the owning syndicate who have engaged the services of Bulleid Pacific maestro Phil Preston , who was involved with similar work on 35005 . |
| 6 | That evening , after a pre-theatre platter in the room , we were taken by horse-drawn carriage to the Volksopera for the Robert Stolz Gala performance . |
| 7 | Five per cent complained of diarrhoea that resolved after a slight reduction of the bile acid medication . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Green Party has agreed to internal reforms aimed at making it more electorally effective after a prolonged debate at the party 's annual Wolverhampton conference . |
| 10 | Billy Bingham , the Northern Ireland manager , has recalled Anton Rogan , the Sunderland defender , after a 13-month absence for the World Cup qualifier against Lithuania in Belfast later this month . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 14 | Christmas in Kate and John Dyson 's Victorian terraced house is a gathering together of the family after a hectic run-up to the holiday . |
| 15 | They had , apparently , ridden in around dawn , after a hectic escape from the battlefield 's carnage , the Steward 's right arm in a sling . |
| 16 | After a hectic day on the circuit his owner would watch as Noddy returned to the pits , his face showing the strain of a life lived in the fast lane . |
| 17 | There was allays someone going on or coming off night duty , or reeling in late after a hectic night in the village pub . |
| 18 | And then entirely terrible , after a convulsive visit to the small but resonant bathroom , whose air was full of racing currents , fire-tinged . |
| 19 | After a muttered exchange through the bars , the captain ordered two of his officers to stand by with pistols drawn while he unfastened the padlocks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As with so many of the primitive plants the arthrophytes had their heyday in the Carboniferous after a probable origin in the Devonian . |
| 22 | The secretary was then called in , and after a serious address from the chairman , he was informed of the resolution of the general meeting , and that he was dismissed from the service of the College . |
| 23 | After a normal day at the Panama Canal Commission 's public affairs office in Balboa Heights , I had returned to my home in La Boca , formerly part of the canal zone and now on Panamanian territory . |
| 24 | The England player was left needing fifteen stitches in an eye wound after a rucking incident during the All Blacks match against the South West on Saturday . |
| 25 | TIE Rack , whose expansion into America has been described as ‘ attempted suicide ’ by chairman Roy Bishko , is aiming to break even in its American shops ‘ in a couple of years ’ after a better performance in the year to February . |
| 26 | The stock market powered ahead after a euphoric day in the City on hopes of better times ahead . |
| 27 | After a leisurely day on the beach why not relax with a cool drink in our Smugglers bar whilst taking in the superb sea and Exmoor views . |
| 28 | They had lunch at a hotel overlooking the sea after a leisurely meander in the big black Bentley round the magnificent , twisting coastline road . |
| 29 | After a leisurely drive through the spring sunshine they arrived in the broad main street of Chastlecombe just after four . |
| 30 | Julie Ride , of Walthamstow , London , said as she landed at Heathrow airport after a five-day visit to the Iraqi capital : ‘ The Government has got to get its act together now and get Paul and Michael out . ’ |