Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apply half an hour after a face-pack or facial sauna . |
| 2 | Tears , weeping , sobbing , shaking and reliving the experiences which triggered off these powerful feelings , leave the person being counselled exhausted after a session but peaceful , and often with a new perception of the world . |
| 3 | Few could have been less suited for the military life than the historian Edward Gibbon who , as he admitted in his Autobiography , ‘ never handled a gun … seldom mounted a horse ’ but , living with his father , a country gentleman , at Buriton , near Petersfield , he felt obliged to apply for a commission as a captain in the South battalion of the Hampshire militia , 476 strong , of which his father became major and a local nobleman , ‘ after a prolix and passionate contest ’ with the Lord Lieutenant , lieut. -colonel . |
| 4 | And after a day as peaceful or energetic as you wanted it to be , there 's an evening of good company and good food to enjoy . |
| 5 | Interest quickens after a mile when Turbary Pot appears by the side of the track . |
| 6 | How to use : Preferably after a bath or facial sauna ( congested skin does not readily absorb substances unless warm and moist ) . |
| 7 | Sometimes a tool was ground after a breakage or similar accident , and the resulting shape would allow a usage not previously possible , and may even have become a treasured ‘ special ’ . |
| 8 | She had much enjoyed her work as classroom assistant in a school for handicapped children , but after an operation and slow recovery to full health , she was persuaded by her family not to return to work . |
| 9 | RESCUERS have recovered 1,226 bodies after an earthquake and tidal waves devastated parts of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores . |
| 10 | Regardless of the size & condition of your aircraft after an accident or forced landing , we can recover your aircraft to any location of your choice for repair or storage , at a realistic price and without causing further damage . |
| 11 | The son of a furniture and domestic appliance merchant , Charles Garrett was born on 1 April 1932 in the small Texas town of Lufkin . |
| 12 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 13 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 14 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 15 | Victoria Chaplin has the persona of a grave and beautiful young girl , performing astonishing feats of illusion and imagination with inanimate objects . |
| 16 | It ignores the real history of the press in Britain and so it paints a naïve picture of a conservative and debased medium which offers little real choice . |
| 17 | Response to last week 's items on how to estimate the weight of a donkey and goose-grazing hours has been staggering . |
| 18 | It may be beyond the capacity of a 12- or 15-teacher secondary school , a 10-teacher middle school , a 10-teacher primary school or an 8-teacher first school . |
| 19 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 20 | He clipped a glass slide , smeared with a drop of blood , under an ordinary microscope reversed ; and then scanned the specimen in a series of lines by means of a minute and brilliant spot of light . |
| 21 | a majority of lone parents with young children , who become homeless , have experienced the breakdown of a marriage or other partnership ; |
| 22 | Revealing the painful side of the very private area of a marriage or close domestic partnership involves breaking social taboos , and sympathetic response to the first hint of difficulty helps the communication ( Wilson and James , 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Upon a decree for dissolution of a marriage or judicial separation , the court may make orders for the custody , maintenance , and education of the children , for financial provision to be made for the wife , and for varying marriage settlements . |
| 24 | Christian pilgrims always made sure to take a sample home with them , and then ‘ when anyone falls sick of a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever , they give him a little of this earth to drink . |
| 25 | Anyway , even if we ca n't find you a single , we 'll be more than happy to offer you our FREE service whereby we organise a share of a twin or triple room for you . |
| 26 | The rates quoted are per person , based on shared occupancy of a twin or double room , including English breakfast , service and VAT , without private bath unless all rooms are with private bath . |
| 27 | The antidote to these ills was thought to lie in the institution of a core or common component in the curriculum of all pupils . |
| 28 | Cramlington and North Shields provide examples of a core and outer locale respectively , but they do not provide us with an account of ‘ inner-ring ’ developments . |
| 29 | Examinations involving the use of a hypodermic syringe , the administration of a drug or exploratory operations were ruled out . |
| 30 | But what really seems to hurt and rankle you most at the moment is the behaviour and attitude of a friend or close companion — and no doubt the Full Moon in Aries on the 14th will prove challenging and even emotionally upsetting . |