Example sentences of "[prep] an [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an acrimonious and close battle , Guinness emerged narrowly as the victor . |
| 2 | After an emotional and heated 11-hour debate V. P. Singh 's National Front government lost the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha on Nov. 7 by 346 votes to 142 , with eight abstentions . |
| 3 | People who devote their lives to looking after an elderly or disabled relative or friend are again demanding more support from the government . |
| 4 | Shottermill ran out worthy winners of the 1992 Haslemere Hospital Cup after an entertaining and competitive final between these two old rivals at Fernhurst on Sunday . |
| 5 | After an exuberant and spectacular mandate , returning to his previous post in 1988 after an absence of nearly two years , he concentrated his efforts on saving the national heritage , creating a body of trained curators for French museums , and encouraging patronage of the arts without abandoning his penchant for popular adulation ( of which his orchestration of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution is the prime example ) . |
| 6 | After an unfortunate and ill-timed brush with the law , it was almost impossible for Marinello to arrest his downward spiral . |
| 7 | For those of you currently looking after an ill or disabled relative , the Benefits Agency — the DSS to you and me — has issued a new leaflet . |
| 8 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 9 | Racial harassment involves hostile or offensive behaviour towards an individual or group because of their race . |
| 10 | The Labour Government 's pamphlet Britain 's New Deal in Europe , issued before the 1975 referendum , stated unequivocally that ‘ there was a threat to employment in Britain from the movement in the Common Market towards an Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 11 | Life was a slow , blissful progress towards an unnamed but predecided climax which we both realized was there , only waiting for us to reach it . |
| 12 | A final method of obtaining publicity , and one of the most costly , is by donating substantial sums of money towards an academic or research institution . |
| 13 | It is perhaps because of an effort to buck the trend towards an insufferable and market-conscious cleverness that we are witnessing an attempt amongst more committed narrators to seek out a way of dealing directly with the emotions , without all the paraphernalia of intrigue and description that has accumulated over the past few years . |
| 14 | It is sometimes a question whether a particular confession is the unaided work of an accused or is a fabrication of a police officer . |
| 15 | Sometimes , a judge will be particularly impressed by a mellifluous and seductive plea put up on behalf of an accused and will sentence leniently to the point of mistake . |
| 16 | Androgyny — of an explicit and active kind — was the key sexuality of the mid-sixties . |
| 17 | Not less important , Kunaev was at the centre of an elaborate network of patronage and corruption which was clearly threatened by the imposition of an ethnic and political outsider . |
| 18 | Teachers ' expectations , stereotyping and labelling are seen as the mechanisms by means of which membership of an ethnic or gender group results in ethnic or sex disparities in achievements or in particular types of classroom behaviour . |
| 19 | The view most favoured is that it could , by the intervention of an official and by means of his coercion . |
| 20 | A colour pattern often consists of an epidermal or subepidermal ground colour ( which may fade rapidly after death ) and overlying areas of more permanent cuticular pigmentation . |
| 21 | The first worry is that proving that your contract has been broken may not be easy , particularly if you are complaining about the breach of an unwritten and rather vague term . |
| 22 | When out photographer called , Sunny Jim was in the proceeds of receiving a pudding basin haircut … which was cut short by the arrival of an authentic but unwanted shower of rain . |
| 23 | Mercier and Baker ( 1985 ) ( see also Baker and Mercier 1982a ) report the results of an extensive and thorough series of experiments ( using the conditioned suppression procedure and a clicker and a light as the stimuli ) , none of which yielded any indication that the S1-S2 procedure diminished the magnitude of latent inhibition . |
| 24 | By far the most famous of these clerical judges is Henry Bracton : he died in 1268 as chancellor of Exeter cathedral , but he had served in the meanwhile as a justice in eyre , a judge on assize , and from 1248 to 1257 on the King 's Bench and on the king 's council ; his fame rests on the fact that not only was he the foremost jurist of his age and possessed of an extensive and precise knowledge of Roman law but he was also credited with the authorship of The Laws and Customs of England which became — in the words of Dorothy Stenton — ‘ the Bible of the coming legal generation ’ . |
| 25 | But the best form of support for her is of course to be found in the framework of an affectionate and united family who will make sure that she is not too lonely and can help her to rebuild her social life . |
| 26 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 27 | In the near future , pregnant women could have their children examined at home , with the certainty of an accurate and unequivocal result . |
| 28 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 29 | Indeed , there 's an excellent description in the seventeenth century by the physician Thomas Willis of an honest and prudent woman , as he describes her , who erm , after much hasty speaking will become mute as a fish , and one might even fancifully look further back and wonder whether this fatiguable weakness was n't something that erm that the Old Testament character , Samson , had . |
| 30 | Definition of need covers a very wide range and applies , among others , to problems connected with : health , housing , care of an elderly or disabled relative , as well as widowhood and problems encountered by the frail elderly who for example may require extra heating during the winter . |