Example sentences of "[prep] a recent [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FLAVOR FLAV found out that 911 is n't a joke when he dialled his local emergency number after a recent motorcycle accident on Long Island . |
| 2 | Some of Scotland 's most beautiful areas could be threatened following a recent government decision |
| 3 | The news has been hailed as a major success for the showpiece centre , currently one of Cumbria 's top tourist attractions and the subject of a recent TV advertising campaign . |
| 4 | I have therefore enclosed copies of a recent CBF press release , plus some correspondence which should be self-explanatory . |
| 5 | Constitutional provisions for the rights of Romanies , the subject of a recent Helsinki Watch report alleging discrimination and said to be Slovakia 's second-largest minority after Hungarians , were welcomed by Alojz Pompa , chairman of the League of Romany Unity , in a radio interview on Sept. 4 . |
| 6 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 7 | Affairs of the heart are not unknown to travel agents in the 1990s either : in the middle of a recent travel consultation a young man proposed to his girlfriend and the travel consultant was asked to arrange the wedding in Mauritius . |
| 8 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 9 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
| 10 | Black African film was one of the focuses of a recent film festival held in Augsburg , southern Germany . |
| 11 | Mr Hunter went on to reveal the findings of a recent opinion poll he had conducted amongst NALGO 's membership in the North Western and North Wales region . |
| 12 | Sam Snead and Byron Nelson , both 80 this year , were unfit ; Snead after a car crash on his way to Augusta on Tuesday and Nelson as a result of a recent hip operation . |
| 13 | Tanabe was the author of a recent policy review which was designed to steer the party away from its traditional position of pacifism ( including opposition to the country 's Self Defence Force on the grounds that its existence was unconstitutional ) and international neutrality . |
| 14 | As the presenter of a recent television programme analysing the Labour Party put it , ‘ Nothing is more sacred than getting Labour into power ’ ( Fred Emery , ‘ Panorama ’ , 5th September 1988 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Reality is the best fantasy , ’ reads the slogan for a recent perfume campaign showing a couple and baby in a spartan bathroom . |
| 16 | She was an outstanding publicity manager for a recent school drama production , enlisting the support of local businesses as well as that of other students . |
| 17 | For a recent Revenue concession concerning interests in possession see Trusts and Estates , Vol 7 , No 7 , p50 ( Legal Studies and Services ( Publishing ) Ltd ) . |
| 18 | During a recent TV interview in France she demanded the cameras have special filters to hide her wrinkles . |
| 19 | The leader of the Florida-based satanic death metal quartet , who boasted of torturing animals during a recent NME interview , has been warned against coming to Britain in an open letter from the Manchester cell of the Animal Militia . |
| 20 | During a recent election broadcast he featured as Sir Denis ‘ Foreman ’ — as in the foreman of a building site , rather than of Granada of which he used to be deputy chairman . |
| 21 | Laurence Williams , Deputy Chief Inspector of the NII , recently wrote to Dr Robin Jeffery to congratulate the staff at Torness and Scottish Nuclear on the condition of the plant and the performance of its staff during a recent emergency exercise . |
| 22 | That applies especially to the Arbroath batsman , George Salmond , who showed little signs of the bad calf cut , sustained during a recent football match and which necessitated 18 stitches . |
| 23 | The Ulster Inter-Pro ace has failed in his battle to recover from a thumb injury sustained during a recent skiing holiday . |
| 24 | And so it is with Wattana , who , in a psychological move during a recent Matchroom League clash , showed he is hardly in awe of Hendry when he won five successive frames before scattering the balls to ‘ allow ’ the Scot the first of three consolation frames . |
| 25 | Other Exchange partners were visited by Professor Michael Jackson at Texas A & M University and Georgetown University , Washington DC , during a recent study tour of the United States . |
| 26 | Robin Stemp conveys her impressions during a recent train tour of Europe which , as she hoped , helped to reawaken her numbed artistic faculties |
| 27 | As a recent Shelter report , analysing information drawn from local authorities all over England and Wales , suggests , there are a number of specific factors which encourage landlords to " harass " their tenants . |
| 28 | and are both on holiday at the moment so I am writing in their absence about a recent print job Req No 239886 . |
| 29 | The ROK army had been occupied throughout the winter in containing guerrillas ; they were under the direction of North Korea and occasionally obtained arms supplies from the north , as with a recent arms shipment landed on the east coast , the bulk of which was confiscated before it could be used inland . |
| 30 | MS 5 Tell me how you dealt with a recent consumer complaint about water supply being interrupted — your response — — Actions ? |