Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We return to civilisation after a wash in cold water , a breakfast of buns and sour cream and a ride through knife-sharp mountain air . |
| 2 | The word " plants " includes mosses and algae which may grow after a while in damp habitats ( e.g. 2,10 and 12 ) . |
| 3 | Euro Disney was also in demand , up 20p at 965p after a rise in foreign visitor receipts . |
| 4 | The Rowlands had always wanted to farm and revelled in the return to a rural community in 1966 after a sojourn in suburban England , where , Gareth says incredulously , he had to pay to play rugby . |
| 5 | Also , using 4WD seems to cause a minor oil leak which again appears to be self curing after a period in normal drive . |
| 6 | light four-wheeled open two-horse carriage , named after a figure in Greek mythology , the son of Helios , the sun , who tried , disastrously , to drive his father 's chariot . |
| 7 | Adapting to higher education , perhaps after a gap in formal education , can lead to special needs for advice and support . |
| 8 | Adapting to higher education , perhaps after a gap in formal education , can lead to special needs for advice and support . |
| 9 | He was taking some friends home after a party in Great Malvern . |
| 10 | In early October contacts between France and the State of Cambodia were considerably strengthened , after a visit in late September by the French Secretary of State for International Cultural Relations , Thierry de Beaucé . |
| 11 | For example , in 1969 after a warming in Soviet-Pakistani relations the USSR was willing to help Pakistan construct a naval base for submarines at Kwadar , which was near the Pakistani-Iranian border and the developing Iranian naval base at Chah Bahar . |
| 12 | It is true that if Mr. Tully fails to comply with the order of Buckley J. he could be punished for contempt after a hearing in open court and subject to review by an appellate court . |
| 13 | After an increase in solar activity which increased atmospheric density an older style Soviet space station , the 40-tonne Salyut 7 launched in April 1982 [ see pp. 31596 ; 37195 ] , re-entered the earth 's atmosphere in early February 1991 . |
| 14 | After an HND in commercial horticulture at Chelmsford , Ric spent two years with the Great Gardens of England production nursery at Blenheim Palace , four years as grounds supervisor at an agriculture college in Brecon , and seven years running his own market garden . |
| 15 | After an education in private schools , he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap & Alkali Co . |
| 16 | After an article in New Scientist which summarised the findings of FoE and Nilghard , R G Pawsey wrote from the Department of Forestry in Aberdeen University that ‘ there is no evidence that acid rain or any other pollution factor is significantly affecting the general health of forest and other trees in this country . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 18 | It is designed both as a basis for further study and for those students who want an overall understanding of ancient history as part of a degree in other subjects . |
| 19 | From the beginning , Frohnmayer seemed to be trying to please the avant-garde artistic community while at the same time proclaiming his own high moral stance he actually is the possessor of a degree in Christian ethics from the University of Chicago . |
| 20 | Telling a story means making what is false ( or at least largely invented ) seem true , so ‘ realism ’ ( a term hard to define but impossible to avoid ) becomes a crucial yardstick of success , a measure of whether the film wins or loses in the game of make-believe , which may also be the serious game of box-office success or failure ( though this in turn relates only erratically to the quality of a film in general or its SFX in particular ) . |
| 21 | The effect of items being stored offline is that a user will be informed by LIFESPAN of a delay in certain transactions where retrieval from offline to online storage is required . |
| 22 | These results are consistent with scintigraphic evidence of a delay in oesophageal transit of a radiolabelled liquid meal in PSS patients with impaired peristalsis and of fewer but more prolonged episodes of postprandial reflux when PSS patients were compared with those with normal peristalsis and equally severe oesophagitis . |
| 23 | The court also said that opening an account was not the conferring of a benefit in ordinary language , though that ruling is questionable . |
| 24 | The negotiations on the country 's constitutional framework appeared to be on the verge of a breakthrough in early February , when a joint commission of the Czech and Slovak National Councils ( republican parliaments ) agreed on a draft text defining the relationship of the republics in a future federation . |
| 25 | Erm , there 's a question of a rally in Central Hall , now in order to organise this pensioner 's rally there short of funds , erm , I think the executive will be discussing this and as , as before we did give them quite a considerable donating , because it costs a thousand pounds to hire the centre hall and we do want to erm take part in a very big rally , like the last one was . |
| 26 | However , expectations of a nirvana in mental health for visitors to the ‘ English Riviera ’ ( as the area is promoted for tourist purposes ) may have proved too great for some . |
| 27 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 28 | In two war crimes trials which opened in West Germany , an exiled Latvian , Boleslavs Maikovskis , was charged on Jan. 18 , 1990 with responsibility for the murder in 1942 of all 171 inhabitants of a village in German-occupied Latvia as well as another of 250 Latvians , Jews and Gypsies . |
| 29 | Oman ( 1984 , 1989 ) suggests that the crucial test is whether the arrangement involves some element of risk to the seller — and some prospect of a share in future income . |
| 30 | As so often before , Europe found it difficult to escape the effects of a deterioration in US-Soviet relations . |