Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a month [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 2 | Both illusions were shattered in ways that underlined how fragile and ramshackle the policies were , and they were shattered within a month of each other . |
| 3 | But defender Andy Barlow will be sidelined for a month after straining a calf muscle in training . |
| 4 | The recording was made within a month of the première , which was conducted by ‘ Glorious John ’ , as Vaughan Williams called Barbirolli . |
| 5 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 6 | Ershad 's trial had been scheduled to open on Feb. 16 , but was postponed for a month on a technicality . |
| 7 | But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days . |
| 8 | ‘ We have trained for a month since the end of our home season , ’ explained Mark Catchpole , son of Aussie legend Ken . |
| 9 | This was known as the Winter Term and was followed by a month of welcome holiday . |
| 10 | FIFTEEN steps to be implemented within a month of taking office in order to reverse the Conservative health reforms and set a new direction for the NHS were outlined by Labour yesterday . |
| 11 | The term of the interim government headed by Ratu Mara was extended by a month to Jan. 5 , 1990 , because of preparations for Ratu Cakobau 's funeral . |
| 12 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 13 | Plus , it gave the world Anna Ford , Gordon Honeycombe , Selina Scott and , most excellently , Reginald Bosanquet , rug-wearing alleged drunk who was actually suspended for a month in 1976 to ‘ sort out his private life ’ . |
| 14 | The fact of his eldest son 's having been knighted within a month of Noell 's death from the plague ( on 29 September 1665 at his home in the parish of St Olave Jewry , London ) suggests continuing royal favour , although his executors did not escape unwelcome attention from royal revenue officials , notably in connection with allegations of his having profited improperly from the gains of privateering — England and Spain remaining technically at war until some little time after the Restoration . |
| 15 | An ex-prisoner said 1,350 people were murdered in a month at Brcko in northern Bosnia . |