Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police had to abandon a car chase after a serious of blunders . |
| 2 | His forecast looked like being correct , which meant that Steve Richardson would make it after a 72 for a total of 143 . |
| 3 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung , in Taipei yesterday . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday . |
| 6 | The opening score was a quality goal from Alan Young who chipped keeper Paul McCabe after a superb through ball from John Scott in the 4th minute . |
| 7 | Lyle , with an eight at the 11th , his second hole of the day , never repaired the damage and his 75 after a 71 on Thursday left him perilously placed at two over par , ‘ probably one too many ’ , he guessed . |
| 8 | Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round . |
| 9 | BCU Director Trevor Bailey was drowned on the regatta course at Holme Pierrepont after a capsize from a double kayak prior to the rafting meeting on Sep 14th . |
| 10 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 11 | Jim Payne , 21 , who turned professional after last year 's Walker Cup , took third prize of £14,000 after a 69 for 289 with Essex 's Paul Curry ( 73 ) , Derbyshire 's Mark Roe ( 72 ) and Argentina 's Eduardo Romero ( 73 ) joint fourth on 291 for £9,533 prizes . |
| 12 | JOSE-MARIA CANIZARES is poised to become the fourth Spanish golfer to pass the £1 million European prize winnings mark after a 69 in the wind-buffeted Rome Masters third round at Castelgandolfo . |
| 13 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 14 | A Whitehall spokesman said the investigation would be extremely thorough and a decision should be ready by the time Yousefi comes up for parole after a third of his sentence . |
| 15 | It was April , and after a warmer in Poosie Nansie 's , another West of Scotland custom , we thrashed away on the Ayr , casting amongst chunks of ice floating down the river ; frozen stiff , getting colder and colder as the grey day grew older and older . |
| 16 | AFTER a year-and-a-half of letter writing , phone calling and door knocking , there are rumours the campaign to get sleeping policemen in St Olaves Road , Bury St Edmunds , has succeeded . |
| 17 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |
| 18 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 19 | The only reply was a muffled crunching as Cassowary disposed of a beak-full of berries , leaves and twigs . |
| 20 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 21 | As an example , Toshiba says it will ask $1,330 for the PC , $1,610 for SC and $1,932 for the MC in quantities of a thousand during the first half of 1993 . |
| 22 | I did n't get much of a lay in this morning either . |
| 23 | ‘ This , ’ said Jan taking a seat on top of a rolled up patterned carpet , ‘ was Kylie Minogue 's bedroom carpet — or Charlene 's , I should say . ’ |
| 24 | The data obtained forms the triangle of a 2,200 by 2,200 matrix ( requiring 4.7Mb disk space ) , and as such required further processing to be rendered comprehensible ( in this case , the application of programs called PATHFINDER and BROWSE ) . |
| 25 | The enthalpy change can be estimated by adding varying quantities of a diluent to the polymer , which serves to depress the observed melting temperature , and measuring T m for each polymer + diluent mixture . |
| 26 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 27 | In the morning foursomes Alliss and Dawson were level par for 17 holes in defeating Bruce Critchley and Warren Humphreys on the 18th green , the only blemish on their card coming in the shape of a 7 on the 7th hole . |
| 28 | To win tickets send your answers to the following questions on a postcard or on the back of a sealed down envelope to Buddy Competition , PR Division , by Friday July 16 . |
| 29 | When you have solved BOTH , write the answers on a postcard or the back of a sealed down envelope , remembering to include your name and address and your age . |
| 30 | A ‘ MAGNIFICENT ’ equal third out of a filed of 374 , is how our entry fared in the worldwide competition to come up with a solution to re-seal the ruined Chernobyl reactor . |