Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 25-year-old all-rounder missed most of the 1989 season with a badly bruised thumb but has recovered after an operation in the summer . |
| 2 | After an incision through the skin of as little as a centimetre long , a device known as an ultrasound probe and laser fibres are inserted directly into the centre of the tumour . |
| 3 | After an hour on the flat we stood on an old snow patch at the foot of the Plaret cascades and looked straight up a perfect glacier valley to the hut , and beyond the Promontoire hut , glinting in the afternoon light , high on a southerly arm of La Meije . |
| 4 | After an hour inside the school , all four spent a few minutes in a room of their own before Charles and Diana said goodbye to their sons . |
| 5 | CASE STUDY 2.2 — MR AND MRS FITCH This elderly couple , Joan Fitch aged 65 and Stanley Fitch aged 67 , were referred by a psychogeriatrician after an assessment by the community psychiatric nurse . |
| 6 | In 1968 the then Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt had an interest in a Middlesbrough printing firm that produced Oz , the contract ceased after an expose in the News of the World . |
| 7 | The pier was built ; intended to be named after an admiral of the time it was quickly dubbed ‘ the Banjo Pier ’ by the locals and the Banjo Pier it remains . |
| 8 | Patricia Sharp painted more than 30 new works for the occasion after an invitation by the gallery owner to lead the exhibition . |
| 9 | Lineker also reveals his anger when Taylor criticised him after an international against the Republic of Ireland and when he was dropped 24 hours before a friendly with France . |
| 10 | A farmer is facing charges of cruelty and neglect involving hundreds of animals after an investigation by the RSPCA . |
| 11 | A farmer is facing charges of cruelty and neglect involving hundreds of animals after an investigation by the RSPCA . |
| 12 | If permission were given after an application to the planning committee , the monument would be erected east of the Nelson monument above the former Royal High School building , which would have housed a Scottish parliament if the Conservatives had lost the general election last April . |
| 13 | Mrs Hawkins agreed to put it into practice after an appeal to the public . |
| 14 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 15 | The discredited Balliol was eventually released from his comfortable English captivity after an appeal from the Pope , and passed the rest of his days on his ancestral estate at Bailleul in France . |
| 16 | The decision came after an appeal by the government on May 2 calling upon the sanctions committee to end the ban on food and medicines paid for before Aug. 2 . |
| 17 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 18 | The national meningitis trust was set up in Stroud after an epidemic of the disease in the mid nineteen eighties . |
| 19 | The majority of complaints came after an article in the Mail on Sunday slated the ad for ‘ presenting women as aesthetically acceptable victims ’ and called on those who felt offended to complain . |
| 20 | THREE of today 's four meetings are set to go ahead after an improvement in the weather . |
| 21 | On April 15 , however , Andreotti was left heading a four-party administration after an announcement by the Republican Party ( PRI ) that it was withdrawing its support . |
| 22 | I follow after an interval towards the entrance . |
| 23 | 4 After an argument with the woman with whom he had been living , D drove his lorry into her car and crushed her to death . |
| 24 | After an argument about the beast 's form , Jack realises that he does n't need rules to be aggressive towards people who break them , he can attack people when he wants now . |
| 25 | They 'd gone to the barn with David Harper , Daniel Winter and Wisdom Smith after an evening at the pub . |
| 26 | Mrs Jenks had her skittish moments ; particularly after an evening at the music hall , and a few port and lemons . |
| 27 | All five had gone to the barn after an evening in the pub . |
| 28 | In contrast , after an analysis of the literature on social indicators and the reform of education , Greenbaum et al ( l977 ) conclude not only that can NAEP not help with research hypothesis formation or policy guidelines , but that ‘ the prerequisites of an effective large-scale system of social accounting demonstrates that no such system lies within reach in the field of education ’ . |
| 29 | We will return to question this assumption after an examination of the programme to create the SEM . |
| 30 | Bush became tired and breathless and , after an examination at the camp 's infirmary , he was flown to the Bethesda Naval Medical Centre in Washington DC . |