Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board took the view that it was not in the national interest that such complete information about the whole nation should be in private hands and after a prolonged and bitterly fought legal battle it won — ensuring the perpetual hostility of Readers Digest the world over to any suggestion of data protection thereafter . |
| 2 | Others only enter the Kingdom after a prolonged and intense search , like the pearl merchant who sells his entire assets to buy one pearl which was everything ( Matt. |
| 3 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 4 | The summit declaration on Germany , which spoke about ‘ unity ’ rather than ‘ reunification ’ , was reached after a protracted and at times acrimonious debate among the 12 EC heads of government . |
| 5 | This was largely because the 1990 budget agreement — reached after a protracted and bitter struggle — had already dictated overall ceilings for defence , foreign aid and discretionary domestic spending , and had prohibited any tax cuts or the expansion of major benefit programmes unless specific revenue could be found to fund them . |
| 6 | Why abandon an opportunity present and promising , to go after a distant and unproven one ? |
| 7 | In 1957 a better diuretic was found , but only after a logical but circuitous investigation , described in detail by K. H. Beyer of Merck , Sharpe , and Dohme . |
| 8 | Looking after a frail and elderly person is very much a management task . |
| 9 | This argument is reinforced by observations that IBS patients consult more often than others after a stressful or threatening life event . |
| 10 | After a contentious and abortive attempt to set up a population register in 1753 , a Bill for a Census was finally passed without fuss in 1800 ( Glass 1973 ) . |
| 11 | Did Changez have any idea of the reluctance with which his bride-to-be , now moving across to her bookshelf , picking up a book by Kate Millett , staring into it for a few minutes and replacing it after a reproachful and pitying glance from her mother , would be exchanging vows with him ? |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S unemployment soared above 2.6 million for the first time in over four years yesterday after a bigger than expected surge in the number of people out of work . |
| 13 | Not healthy , especially coming after a bigger than expected £30bn deficit in the current tax year . |
| 14 | The hurdle of post office reform has brought down French ministers of state before now , notably Pierre Lelong , who held the posts and telecommunications portfolio in Jacques Chirac 's government but was forced to resign after a long and bitter strike in 1974 . |
| 15 | The homecoming procedure , even after a long and exhausting exercise , is well known . |
| 16 | ‘ O K. Let's move on , ’ said the President after a long and pregnant pause . |
| 17 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , are yer comin' or ai n't yer ? ’ he asked after a long and noisy sip at the cup that cheers . |
| 19 | After a long and colourful summing up , in which he swelt on the viciousness of the attack and the grievousness of the wounds , the callousness of the defendants and the misery of the surviving relatives , he made one adamant point . |
| 20 | These important nuances are often recognised only after a long and intimate experience of the couple under study . |
| 21 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 22 | And then , after a long and thoughtful pause , she hit me with it . |
| 23 | On February 14 , she went through her transplant and after a long and painful convalescence , came home to Newent . |
| 24 | In 1979 , when it came to power after a long and vicious civil war the new government detained between 7,000 and 8,000 former members of the National Guard . |
| 25 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 26 | Likewise , after a long and acrimonious struggle with congress the president 's plan for containing hospital costs was defeated . |
| 27 | Down the road a man in his fifties — a window cleaner — lost his wife who died after a long and harrowing illness . |
| 28 | The final allied victory against Japan came only after a long and costly struggle . |
| 29 | After a long and uphill struggle , lasting for most of the 1950s , Margery Fry had persuaded the Howard League and the newly formed Justice to take up the cause of monetary restitution to be paid out of public funds to those who had suffered personal injury from acts of criminal violence . |
| 30 | The Doctor and Bernice had reached the boundary of the city some distance ahead of the others , after a long and exhausting run . |