Example sentences of "[adj] experience of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And in further contrast , miles from anywhere , the odd experience of driving through the night with flames licking through the forest on either side of the long deserted road .
2 His body was brought over from New York by Mary Read and fifty Girls representing troupes all over the country met at Westminster Bridge Road and had the strange experience of travelling in the Necropolis Funeral train to Brookwood Cemetery .
3 Projects here include an examination of West European interests in Eastern Europe ; a study of Soviet relations with Britain ; West European experience of negotiating with the Soviet Union ; and the impact of information technology on the Soviet system .
4 I started a quarter stern attack and had the unpleasant experience of flying down the middle of a cone of tracer from the rear gunner .
5 Recorded life stories , by contrast , offer a double advantage for those seeking to understand the ordinary experience of ageing in the past .
6 Derek 's previous experience of dealing with the police amounted to clarifying some technical points for the Fraud Squad when a client of Fithyan & Co. was arrested for tax evasion .
7 The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves .
8 A long experience of working in the health care market puts Wimpey on top of the waiting list when it comes to hospital projects .
9 In her short experience of travelling with the Doctor , she had found that being saved from certain death entailed the likelihood of suffering a fate that was even worse .
10 The fusion of a Country coalition in opposition to the Court in the early 1690s was assisted by the common experience of working on the Commission of Public Accounts , which led a number of Tories and Whigs to realise they had more in common with each other than with their supposed party allies at Court .
11 Through participation in a shared experience of planning for the future , individual members of the school community can develop an increased understanding of the school and a greater awareness of the part each person plays in the total organisation .
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