Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They arrested eighty people after a tip-off that the three-day event was to take place . |
| 2 | Russia 's prime minister has managed to get two big coal mines back to work , but only after a promise that the Russian republic would get control over the mines . |
| 3 | Initially the laws had indicated ho drop-goals may be scored after a free-kick until the ball had gone dead . |
| 4 | Ask any élite marathoner what he/she most wants after a race and the answer is very likely to be a massage . |
| 5 | It tends to die off after a year unless the side shoots are removed . |
| 6 | Erm I lost interest in photography f er after a while because the er the photography at the centre , there 's always been ever since I joined , there 's been six of us who had er a l a lasting thing with photography . |
| 7 | He wisely asked for the downward transition after a circuit and the mare came down to trot , threw her head up briefly and then rounded again . |
| 8 | It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms . |
| 9 | A charge will obviously deter a second financier from providing the company with funds where its charge would rank after a charge that the company has already created over its assets . |
| 10 | Some of the archers thought that if the competition were restricted to longbows it would die out but , after a decrease when the steel bows first appeared , the number of longbows at the Scorton shoot is steadily increasing . |
| 11 | Birmingham-based ACT Group Plc 's ACT Computer Support Ltd and Professional Support Centre , an organisation providing personal computer-based software support , have been signed up by personal computer manufacturer Tandy Grid Systems Corp to offer computer support services to its customers : ACT will deal with on-site technical support , consulting , training and additional installations , while Professional will look after a hot-line and the initial diagnostic process . |
| 12 | Eastbourne lifeboat had just been recovered after an exercise when the crew heard the ship 's initial Mayday on their radio and were able to identify the vessel by radar and pass on her position to Dover Coastguard . |
| 13 | Now it er they said that this chap had g had gone to work after an illness and the boss said , Well er you 've been away six weeks , he said , There 's no job here for you now . |
| 14 | Delivery of a certificated transfer is treated by a buyer and by the company as equivalent to delivery of a transfer and the relevant certificate . |
| 15 | The scarcity of employment suitable for the sons of a gentleman provided the man who could meet that need with very real influence in his region , and a favour of considerable value to a freeholder need not involve any major place in government service . |
| 16 | One accident the HSE highlights as a plain lack of common sense involved a child who was left in the cab of a tractor while the operator dismounted to add bedding to a pig pen . |
| 17 | The swoon of a heart that the sweep and the hurl of thee trod |
| 18 | First , though heads are indeed crucial to the character of a school and the quality of the education it provides , they can never be held entirely to blame if these prove unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | A telephone hotline , manned twenty four hours a day , has been set up for former pupils of a school where the head has been suspended and a governor arrested by police . |
| 20 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 21 | The capacity of a watercourse and the tolerable limits of polluting effluent are calculated according to a mathematical model , which ideally should be applied routinely and objectively to all dischargers regardless of their means , the costs of treatment , their prior efforts , or the demands made of their competitors . |
| 22 | Work done in 1881 included the addition of a gallery and the church was restored in 1879 and an addition to the churchyard was consecrated in 1901 . |
| 23 | Will cut over the edge of a lawn and the low-profile enables them to cut under low shrub branches . |
| 24 | The three points on this line lie within of a degree and the line extends to the church at Bishops Cannings with a better than ⅛ degree accuracy . |
| 25 | Somehow it does not seem to matter in the fast-moving , no-going-back whirl of a film that the hero is a complete fool . |
| 26 | Innominate Crack and Kern Knotts Crack are both 4c , though the first is the harder overall and more suited to the modern climber , being less of a squirm than the other . |
| 27 | Havel stressed that the dismissal was a reflection not of any disappointment with Vacek 's work , but rather of a resolve that the post should go to a civilian . |
| 28 | The court may expunge or vary a proof which has been admitted either upon the application of the trustee or of a creditor if the trustee declines to interfere ( r 6.107 ) . |
| 29 | The death of a hero and the birth of an enemy . |
| 30 | As the only certain way to locate buried features is to excavate them , trial trenches are often dug to confirm the results of a survey before the main excavation takes place . |