Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recently as 1980 Cash became addicted to morphine after an operation to crushed ribs sustained in a fight with an ostrich ( his home in Hendersonville , Tennessee , is said to be a real menagerie ) . |
| 2 | Century kept a share of the prizes at home with John Aslanian taking first handicap award from a nett 45.56 after an allowance of 21 minutes . |
| 3 | In their response to the report , the Government have said that the Bilsthorpe project failed to achieve the support of the European Commission after an assessment by technical experts . |
| 4 | Many organisations might be involved after an attack on British forces . |
| 5 | After an education in private schools , he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap & Alkali Co . |
| 6 | It must be rare for a publishing house to be sent a manuscript twice after an interval of 62 years . |
| 7 | Council agreed that , after an interval of six years , it would again be prepared to consider applications for recognition from schools of architecture in South Africa . |
| 8 | Christie 's New York will be auctioning antiquities after an interval of many years . |
| 9 | It is renewed ( in the sequel , Rupert of Hentzau ) for a further period when , after an interval of some years , the machinations of Michael 's nephew Rupert lead to the King 's death and loyal Sapt appeals to Rassendyll once more for help . |
| 10 | Gazzard et al. ( 1976 ) used a questionnaire to ask patients who had taken overdoses of paracetamol about their knowledge of the effects of this substance and found that only 11 per cent knew about the possibility of severe hepatic complications that can occur after an interval of several days . |
| 11 | Moorcroft and Coleman were appointed joint professors after an interregnum of seven months , but only a few weeks later , on 4 April , Moorcroft resigned . |
| 12 | Experimentation with heroin for interviewees in the hidden sector , then , began at a much earlier stage , after an average of six months of recreational drug use instead of 17 months . |
| 13 | Men having intercourse once a day with an infected woman would become HIV-positive after an average of 33 months . |
| 14 | After an absence of 13 years , the SOC was readmitted to the International Interim Mekong Committee ( comprising Laos , Vietnam and Thailand ) at a special meeting in Bangkok , Thailand , on Aug. 30-Sept. 2 . |
| 15 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
| 16 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 17 | Neneh , back in the charts at No 23 with Money Love after an absence of two years , adds : ‘ I have never cried so much as on that night . ’ |
| 18 | It crossed Cora-Beth 's mind that this girl 's feelings towards Harry might well change if she were to meet him again after an absence of two years , but she bit back her words , fearing that the suggestion , were she to make it , might put the idea into his head . |
| 19 | A further problem arises in relation to those who return to church life after an absence of many years , or who transfer from one church to another . |
| 20 | Lily meanwhile works for the Mob , placing bets to shorten the odds at racetracks ; when she impulsively decides to re-enter her son 's life , after an absence of eight years , just in time to save it . |
| 21 | Harry , Lord Monchensey , has returned after an absence of eight years to the family home of Wishwood where his mother and other relatives are waiting for him . |
| 22 | Mary , Queen of Scots returned to Scotland after an absence of thirteen years and landed at Leith on 19th August . |
| 23 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 24 | GERAINT JARMAN A'R CYNGANEDDWYR : ‘ Rhiniog ’ founding father of Welsh language music scene Geraint Jarman returns after an absence of five years — out now |
| 25 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 26 | A GREAT British tradition , afternoon tea , returned to InterCity trains yesterday after an absence of 18 months . |
| 27 | Bilici Constantin , a cheery film man in his early 40s , hurried back from France after an absence of 10 years and arrived just as Ceausescu fell . |
| 28 | Rigoletto returns to Opera North 's repertory after an absence of 10 years in an entirely new staging which will evoke the decadent splendour of the Mantuan court . |
| 29 | When county cricket began again in 1919 , Crawford was back with Surrey , and had lost none of his old form after an absence of 10 years . |
| 30 | Campbell surged between two defenders , shrugging off Pearce 's challenge , then drove the ball out of the reach of Sealey , the on-loan goalkeeper from Aston Villa back at Highfield Road after an absence of nine years . |