Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police had to abandon a car chase after a serious of blunders . |
| 2 | The opening score was a quality goal from Alan Young who chipped keeper Paul McCabe after a superb through ball from John Scott in the 4th minute . |
| 3 | BCU Director Trevor Bailey was drowned on the regatta course at Holme Pierrepont after a capsize from a double kayak prior to the rafting meeting on Sep 14th . |
| 4 | The only reply was a muffled crunching as Cassowary disposed of a beak-full of berries , leaves and twigs . |
| 5 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 6 | I did n't get much of a lay in this morning either . |
| 7 | ‘ This , ’ said Jan taking a seat on top of a rolled up patterned carpet , ‘ was Kylie Minogue 's bedroom carpet — or Charlene 's , I should say . ’ |
| 8 | The enthalpy change can be estimated by adding varying quantities of a diluent to the polymer , which serves to depress the observed melting temperature , and measuring T m for each polymer + diluent mixture . |
| 9 | To win tickets send your answers to the following questions on a postcard or on the back of a sealed down envelope to Buddy Competition , PR Division , by Friday July 16 . |
| 10 | When you have solved BOTH , write the answers on a postcard or the back of a sealed down envelope , remembering to include your name and address and your age . |
| 11 | A ‘ MAGNIFICENT ’ equal third out of a filed of 374 , is how our entry fared in the worldwide competition to come up with a solution to re-seal the ruined Chernobyl reactor . |
| 12 | The problem is more of income distribution than of a failing in the technical working of the credit market itself . |
| 13 | the presentation of a winding up petition — it has , however , been held that a winding up petition can not be advertised during this period ; |
| 14 | The consequences of a winding up order . |
| 15 | On 30 July 1991 the Banking Act 1987 ( Meaning of Deposit ) Order 1991 was made , which provided that the definition of ‘ deposit ’ in section 5 of that Act excluded a sum to which a person became entitled , otherwise than by operation of law , after presentation of a winding up petition or , where a petition had already been presented , after 30 July 1991 . |
| 16 | It provided that in future the definition of ‘ deposit ’ in the Act excluded a sum to which a person became entitled , otherwise than by operation of law , after presentation of a winding up petition . |
| 17 | The Order excluded an entitlement arising , otherwise by operation of law , after presentation of a winding up petition . |
| 18 | Markedly , and deliberately , the Order left untouched a deposit ‘ to which a person becomes entitled ( otherwise than by operation of law ) ’ pre-presentation of a winding up petition . |
| 19 | Interests arising , whether under assignments or trusts , were struck down if the entitlement arose after presentation of a winding up petition . |
| 20 | The events of crystallisation , on which there is general agreement , are ( i ) the making of a winding up order , ( ii ) the appointment of an administrative receiver , ( iii ) the company 's ceasing to carry on business , ( iv ) the taking of possession by the debentureholder and ( v ) the happening of an event expressly provided for in the debenture , often referred to as ‘ automatic crystallisation . ’ |
| 21 | The onset of insolvency is the date of presentation of an administration petition or the date of commencement of winding up by the presentation of a winding up petition or a resolution by the company to go into liquidation . |
| 22 | The appearance of a Frithuric among the Middle Angles in the reign of Wulfhere 's successor , Aethelred , giving Bredun , probably Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire , to the monastery of Peterborough in the time of Seaxwulf , Wynfrith 's successor as bishop of Lichfield , and Breedon 's connection with the monasteries of Bermondsey and Woking in Surrey , raises the intriguing possibility that Frithuwald was a Middle Angle intruded into Surrey by Wulfhere or at the very least that Frithuwald represented a ruling family in Surrey which had strong Middle Anglian connections . |
| 23 | The biggest risk factor of all is an inherited predisposition , which is why life insurance salesmen run a mile when they hear that your dad died of a coronary at 35 . |
| 24 | He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a coronary in 1962 . |
| 25 | Is n't five years a normal , more of a normal for er , er , business purposes . |
| 26 | This scheme describes the singularity structure of a space-time on which the Riemann tensor is C k . |
| 27 | She was not accustomed to ask questions , and obeyed ; Dinah accompanied her , saw her seated in the chair , the anaesthetic given , and the extraction begun ; then for the first time let her own mind admit the possibility that Paul 's illness might have some such origin , that she herself had in that case been the wife of a syphilitic for years , and might have caught it ; that she might lose her face or her mind ; that Robin had inherited it ; and now — |
| 28 | In due course my friendly farmer , Cyril Young , delivered four sheep to Oakington and everything was set for a bit of a barny at the Lion . |
| 29 | His knee problems began three weeks ago , but came to a head on Wednesday when he was forced to pull out of a friendly for Juventus against Second Division side Spal , after he broke down during the warm-up . |
| 30 | An insidious and intrusive pressure may be laid on pupils which , under the guise of a friendly and honest account of a pupil 's interests and activities , may prove just as much of a turn-off for the imaginative or deviant as the examination system itself , and may come quite soon to be regarded with cynicism by both pupils and employers alike . |