Example sentences of "[prep] a [n mass] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an early observer remarked , ‘ If a big muskrat goes after a mink with mayhem in mind and carving tools in front , the mink may not care to accept the sporting challenge . ’ |
| 2 | Iris Friel died in her forties after a series of hormone injections . |
| 3 | From the 1860s the companies increasingly used standardized designs for their country stations , partly for economy and partly to promote a corporate image after a series of company amalgamations which had produced the great conglomerates which were to dominate the railway scene until the 1923 grouping . |
| 4 | They entered traffic in 1982 after a series of teething troubles , and union resistance to one-man operation . |
| 5 | After a series of cancer scares involving his wife , the couple began worrying about Helen 's future after their deaths . |
| 6 | LITTLE Mac is worth £10 million after a series of film roles — and is now asking £2.5 million for a sequel to his original box office hit . |
| 7 | After a series of share transactions following a failed investment of £305,000 in the ‘ News on Sunday ’ newspaper , Oyston benefited on paper by as much as £1m. from investments by Derbyshire 's pension fund . |
| 8 | TWO young people were killed and two others left badly hurt after a series of road accidents . |
| 9 | After a series of telephone calls , letter writing and visits to France , asked for a transfer to . |
| 10 | They wanted me to talk ‘ posh ’ , and so , after a series of elocution lessons , I did . |
| 11 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 12 | The Commission , which was set up in 1991 after a series of miscarriage of justice cases culminating in the release of the Birmingham Six after 16 years in prison , reported today . |
| 13 | George Shipley , the former Charlton midfield player who was released by Gillingham at the end of last season , has officially retired at the age of 30 on medical advice , after a series of knee operations . |
| 14 | The Education Minister Diamantino Gomes Durao was replaced on March 16 by Antonio Couto dos Santos , after a series of student strikes and demonstrations in late February and early March . |
| 15 | SINGER Bobby Brown has ordered a massive security shake-up after a series of death threats . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's agreement to a review was reached after a series of crisis talks between the leaders of Britain 's 18,000 dentists and Health Department officials . |
| 17 | Having seen its share price collapse on Tuesday after a series of market rumours , the oil exploration company put out a statement claiming everything is fine with its Colombian operations and also noting that its largest shareholder , Gulf Resources & Chemical Corporation has increased its stake from 22.9 p.c. to 24.1 p.c . |
| 18 | The eight men were detained along with two women after a series of dawn raids on Saturday in the Pennywell area of Sunderland . |
| 19 | for Lewes in 1741 as a nominee of the Duke of Newcastle ; unfortunately the death of his wife the following year drove him mad and he died in 1743 after a series of suicide attempts . |
| 20 | However , a few months later it was officially announced the Orange route had been chosen as part of a £100m plus scheme to dual the A5 across Anglesey . |
| 21 | It is very probable that the seed sown on that day in Alloway , blossomed so many years later , and was harvested as the kernel of a fruit of genius . |
| 22 | Well no we had a matched pair of a pair of precision E P bearings radials at the front . |
| 23 | The complex comprises a pair of MetJ repressor dimers which bind to adjacent met- box sites on the DNA , and contact each other by means of a pair of antiparallel α -helices . |
| 24 | Hence , an operation in this task 's search space consists of a pair of play operations . |
| 25 | There is no direct evidence at all as to even which year Charlemagne was born ; in Louis the Pious 's case , the year ( but not the exact date ) of birth was recorded by the Astronomer , his anonymous biographer , because Louis was exceptional as the survivor of a pair of twin boys . |
| 26 | The stones consist of a pair of burr stones for corn grinding and a set of what are thought to be Peak stones used for animal feed . |
| 27 | The International Solar Polar Mission is designed to fly ‘ over ’ the Sun , and was originally one of a pair of craft , but its American partner was cancelled in President Ronald Reagan 's first budget . |
| 28 | This compares the price in sterling of a pair of Church shoes in the Burlington Arcade with the price in dollars of a pair of Church shoes on Madison Avenue . |
| 29 | This compares the price in sterling of a pair of Church shoes in the Burlington Arcade with the price in dollars of a pair of Church shoes on Madison Avenue . |
| 30 | They drew up in front of a pair of steel gates topped with spikes . |