Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , commercial director Malcolm Edwards , who has defended a sizeable coal industry , is on the point of departure after a boardroom battle with chairman Clarke , reportedly backed by energy secretary Wakeham . |
| 3 | For any Whites who harbour a sentiment for the famed Seadogs of Scarborough , chairman Geoffrey Richmond has resigned after a boardroom row over admission prices . |
| 4 | TWO children were taken to hospital with serious injuries after a road accident in County Durham last night . |
| 5 | It was at this point , with Ferrari flushed with success , and as usual — like an Italian after a filling bowl of pasta — somnolent in regard to the future , that Montezemolo went back to Fiat and a successor had to be found . |
| 6 | Some remarkable men are now being freed after a quarter century in prison . |
| 7 | After a lightning whip through immigration , an official located all their luggage and polo sticks and whizzed them through customs . |
| 8 | It was set up , after a government inquiry into discipline in schools . |
| 9 | Later the patient recalled that her spells may have begun after a head injury in childhood . |
| 10 | It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism . |
| 11 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 12 | He said Munn got involved in the plan after meeting two men in a pub in Belfast and ‘ bemoaning ’ he could not afford his car insurance after a court appearance for non-payment . |
| 13 | throw in a , after a bucket load of manure . |
| 14 | Bill and Heddwen Molloy were barred after a planning row with owner Jack Minashi . |
| 15 | The instrument made by him 20 years ago was put in the wrong case after a studio session with singer Judy Tzuke — and it vanished en route to France where she is doing concerts . |
| 16 | Nasser Hussain ( above ) was banned for two matches ( one Championship match and a Sunday League game ) after a dressing-room incident with team-mate Mark Ilott during Essex 's match against Kent |
| 17 | Mrs Cossins and husband Ray decided four children was enough but ended up with six when nine-year-old Stephen and Caroline , eight , were both born after a sterilisation operation at North Tees General Hospital . |
| 18 | The sixth patient was a 33-year-old man who was admitted after a suicide attempt by inhalation of car engine exhaust fumes and ingestion of about 20 mg of flunitrazepam . |
| 19 | Humorous account of a charity dinner on behalf of the ‘ Indigent Orphans ’ Friends Benevolent Institution' ( CD parodies in this made-up name the pompous titles of many public charities ) . |
| 20 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 21 | ( Eg I got 2 pounds of a cop ticket for wimbledon — meaning I can see a match for 5.50 ) It only takes me going to 5 matches like this and I 've got good value for my initial investment . |
| 22 | Now , 32 years later , Ken is at the centre of a love tangle with girlfriend Maggie , her son Mark , and arch-enemy Mike Baldwin . |
| 23 | Car mechanic Klaus Teich , 51 , died of a heart attack at home in Dresden , East Germany . |
| 24 | FIVE LAMPS , ridden by Russian Nikolay Amelchenko , died of a heart attack in front a packed grandstand at Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 25 | The official Soviet version of events was provided in 1957 by Andrei Gromyko , then Deputy Foreign Minister , who claimed that Wallenberg had died of a heart attack in prison in 1947 , a date conveniently set before the end of the Stalin era . |
| 26 | The programmer can always extract the relevant portion of a computer word by masking , using either an " And " instruction or a " Load under Mask " instruction if available . |
| 27 | Section 50A states that copyright is not infringed by a lawful user making an additional copy of a computer program for back-up purposes if doing so is necessary to the lawful use . |
| 28 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 29 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |
| 30 | All seven schools received a monthly statement in the form of a computer printout from county hall . |