Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She used ti take ma fer a walk ivvery day wi'oot fail , rain or shine , whether Ah wanted ti goa oot or not .
2 He must have liked the look of me because after a bit more discussion he said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to learn you to milk , and learn you to feed calves and the rest will follow on .
3 The 1992 budget was approved in the Knesset by 60 votes to 53 with one abstention on Jan. 2 , two days after a Dec. 31 deadline and a matter of hours before the government was to press for approval of a one-month provisional budget .
4 And it was after a pre-lunch 76 here that first time Scot , Chris Cowan , found himself heading the charge for a top qualifying place .
5 The speculation was heightened after a Feb. 13 visit to Damascus by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the German Foreign Minister .
6 The Labour Party 's executive committee stressed after a Feb. 22 meeting that the government had to make a clear decision on the formula within two to three weeks , otherwise it would be forced to end the coalition .
7 A POWER cut turned the reopening of Britain 's busiest coach station after a £4 million refurbishment into a farce yesterday .
8 The helicopters of the Queen 's flight , used by the Queen and other members of the Royal family , have been grounded after a crash last month in which three air cadets died .
9 Eddie won by a single stroke only after a back nine countback .
10 But after a century this ‘ artificial ’ system had created a political life and interests of its own which were strong enough to resist its replacement .
11 SunSoft 's first attempt at courting major SCO distributors on behalf of Interactive Unix and Solaris-on-Intel apparently hit the right notes : After a session last month with the SCO Distributor Council ( UX No 385 ) , another meeting is being set up to look seriously into establishing a relationship .
12 The A.87 enters Glen Shiel at Shiel Bridge and after a level two miles in which the scenery is dominated by the highest of the Five Sisters , Sgurr Fhuaran seen in full stature , starts the gradual ascent to Cluanie , bypassing the old Bridge of the Spaniards , so called because of a battle here in 1719 between Redcoats and Jacobites , the latter being reinforced by Spanish troops .
13 Braintree have the psychological edge today , having knocked Margate from the top of the table early in the season with a 5–1 win after a seaside special on the Kent coast .
14 The call came after a vigil last night ended in violence when 25 police officers were injured in clashes with up to 300 mainly Asian youths who waited outside the hospital where Quaddus Ali is being treated .
15 FUTURE provision of after school care in the Braintree district is being considered by a steering group , set up after a seminar last November .
16 The defence , calling and cross-examining a number of US Drug Enforcement Agency officials , presented its case between Feb. 2 and March 10 , 1992 , after a delay due to heart bypass surgery on Judge William Hoeveler .
17 I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it .
18 After a slot-it-out 18 months , which has seen them circuiting Europe and America like Nigel Mansell switched to turbo-boost , they turn up here — excuse the expression — absolutely knackered .
19 For example , in Calliphora flight starts after a jump due to the contraction of muscles running from the tergum to the trochanter of the mid leg .
20 The Shipman 's Tale stands at the beginning of the second largest fragment of the Tales , fragment VII by the conventional numbering , a fragment which is consistently found in reliable manuscripts immediately after a fragment VI that includes the Physician 's and the Pardoner 's Tales .
21 Seagate Technology Inc saw third quarter net profits down 4.1% at $39.0m after pre-tax restructuring charges of $15m this time , $18m last , on turnover down 3.3% to $754.1m ; net for the nine months was $161.9m , up from just $3.9m last time , which came after a $33.9m pre-tax restructuring charge , on turnover that rose 8.5% to $2,273m .
22 The deficit follows a slump in turnover from £74.8m to £31m , and is after a £4.62m exceptional charge , mainly additional provision on a City Road , London , office development , although this was partly offset by a £3.7m fall in the net interest bill to £15.4m .
23 Chester-based Trinity saw profits at its North American operations fall to £2.04 million , from £3.3 million before , after a £1.53 million charge for closing two loss-making businesses in Canada .
24 In patients whose mucosa had returned to normal after a gluten free diet , the intensity and extent of class II major histocompatibility complex expression were similar to that seen in control biopsies .
25 THE final episode of the Coronation Street libel drama was a cliff-hanger to the very end — even after a London High Court jury had awarded actor Bill Roache £50,000 damages .
26 The " Torogoces " , a music group named after a bird renowned for the beauty of its song , perform in the Morazan controlled zone .
27 Powergen 's shares brightened 2p to 273p after a 0.3p interim dividend increase to 3.35p and is on course for a full-year profits hike to £395m ( £359m ) .
28 An appeal has been launched by Priory School , Banstead , in memory of Joanne Long , who was tragically killed after a School Fun Day in May this year .
29 Mrs Helmsley was found guilty after a trial replete with tales of how she bawled out employees and charged $12 department store brassieres to her hotel .
30 At present there are no plans for structural repairs to the church , where problems first came to light after a survey two years ago .
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