Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [unc] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate , then after a minute 's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump . |
| 2 | Resting after a life 's hard work . ’ |
| 3 | After a year 's postdoctoral research , including a short spell in Sweden on a British Council award , Worswick decided that a long term career at the bench was not for him . |
| 4 | Swallow comes to Shetland after a year 's short-term assignment at Wytch Farm where he provided the engineering input into the onshore field 's scheduled maintenance shutdown in April . |
| 5 | So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government . |
| 6 | American officials say that , after a year 's careful thought , the new democracies of Eastern Europe have come to the conclusion that NATO is a splendid thing : a watchdog against any future Soviet attempt to re-establish hegemony over Eastern and Central Europe ( see page 47 ) . |
| 7 | The newer system is cheaper to make , safer , and the tubes are still effective after a year 's continual use . |
| 8 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 9 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 10 | After a month 's frantic activity we now had an office , but we needed someone to run it . |
| 11 | After a moment 's shocked silence , he said triumphantly- ’ Measles ! ’ |
| 12 | So , what I mean is … , ’ she said after a moment 's thoughtful silence , ‘ it 's very nice of you , but I do n't need any more bother . ’ |
| 13 | After a moment 's glaring silence , Benedict sighed , relaxing . |
| 14 | That 's right , and I think what has been shown if you look at the behaviour of organisations sometimes after a disaster erm those that think in that way actually create even more procedures . |
| 15 | Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking . |
| 16 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 17 | After an hour 's careful work , the designer found ( to his dismay ) that one brand of lacquer caused all the lettering to lift off and float merrily across the case ! |
| 18 | The flight had left London originally on Christmas Eve in another aircraft but after an hour 's flying time it had developed trouble with its undercarriage and had to return to London . |
| 19 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 20 | It had the quiet secluded air of a gentleman 's private residence about it . |
| 21 | What on earth would people think if Miriam started talking of a gentleman 's natural functions in front of the wedding guests when she and Fleury got married ; in some ways the prospect of such a solecism seemed more terrible to Louise than the possibility of one or both of them not surviving the siege . |
| 22 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 23 | We noted at the start of this chapter that our study of school management was not intended to be comprehensive : our concern was the management of PNP rather than that of every aspect of a school 's professional work . |
| 24 | What of the merits of a school 's pastoral care of pupils , the extra curricular sporting and other activities , school visits at home and abroad , foreign exchanges , the youth club , school productions , links with industry , links with the community , and much more , including things that never become public knowledge ? |
| 25 | It should be seen as a definite part of a school 's total reading programme in English : it is not an interruption of it . |
| 26 | to assist in the evaluation of a school 's overall performance . |
| 27 | An example of this can be seen in the list in Parsons and Steadman ( 1984 , pp. 43–50 ) of a school 's possible objectives set against possible means of achieving these . |
| 28 | At the same time there is now a more direct intervention in the nature of a school 's educational work through the introduction of the National Curriculum , bringing with it a greater concern for monitoring . |
| 29 | Accounts are also kept for shareholders , but American accounting laws allow studios to guess how well a film will do in each of its markets ( an invitation either to claim profits early or to put off losses ) ; for the tax man ( ditto ) ; and for various stars who have been promised shares of a film 's net profit — a figure which a studio wants to keep as low as possible . |
| 30 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |