Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme was halted last year after an alliance of environmentalists and native Americans succeeded in obtaining a judicial order on the grounds that a number of endangered species , including the purple warty back mussel , had been found about a mile from a planned drainage pipe outlet . |
| 2 | Only twenty-two months of the sentence were served , Gandhi being released from prison when his health broke down after an operation for appendicitis . |
| 3 | Their son Rudolph , whose wedding was the first to be celebrated in Liverpool Cathedral , died in 1929 after an operation for appendicitis ; his twin sons died in infancy . |
| 4 | Keith Atkinson from Malvern , was left deaf and with double vision after an operation for brain tumours , at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infimary . |
| 5 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 6 | About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress . |
| 7 | He quotes a figure for deaths from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol and states this may be an underestimate as ‘ many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ’ distress . ’ |
| 8 | Editor , — Gary P Bray reports that each year 160 people in England and Wales die of liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol . |
| 9 | Depressed and anxious patients who sought refuge from their troubles by taking an overdose remained unconscious for a time but did not die of respiratory failure or asphyxiation , as happened only too readily after an overdose of barbiturate . |
| 10 | He isolated himself more and more from his friends and colleagues ; he died , after an overdose of painkillers , in Guildford Hospital 26 March 1966 . |
| 11 | The troubled relations between the Serbian and the majority ethnic Albanian populations in the autonomous province of Kosovo suffered a further setback in late March , after an incident on March 22 in which some 400 students and schoolchildren were rushed to hospital with symptoms thought to be consistent with poisoning . |
| 12 | The attack was believed to be a revenge killing after an incident on Dec. 23 , 1991 , in which 10 people of low caste status ( " untouchables " or scheduled castes ) were killed in a nearby village . |
| 13 | MICKEY DUFF has been severely reprimanded and warned about his future conduct by the British Boxing Board of Control 's disciplinary committee after an incident with Simon Block , Board assistant secretary . |
| 14 | After an incident at Thaba Ntso on Feb. 12 , 1990 , in which three insurgents and a government soldier were killed , the leader of the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ) , Ntsu Mokhehle , denied that his party was involved , adding that the Lesotho Liberation Army , a guerrilla force which he had formerly commanded , had been disbanded after its members had returned to Lesotho between December 1988 and February 1989 [ see p. 36677 ] . |
| 15 | A reaction against the occupation by the British began to develop after an incident in December 1813 when the then British commander , Major-General Gordon , condemned to death a British soldier for insubordination and the murder of a sergeant . |
| 16 | Coun Garvey brought the prosecution privately after an incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall on October 15 last year . |
| 17 | Cleveland Coroner 's Court heard Mr Sample was taken to Hartlepool General Hospital after an incident in Peterlee Nursing Home Westcott Road , on October 30 last year . |
| 18 | But that all changed after an incident in training . |
| 19 | A WOMAN has died in hospital after an incident in Birgidale Road , Easterhouse , Glasgow , on Wednesday . |
| 20 | Last night Mrs McGrory was stable with a stab wound to the arm after an incident in Orwell Street at 6am . |
| 21 | But after an incident in ward 16 of the hospital on November 27 , he was transferred to Middlesbrough General , but died on November 29 due to a head injury . |
| 22 | Alan Hodgkinson , the father of Simon , has launched an unofficial fund to help Gary Rees , the Nottingham flanker , who faces a charge of grevious bodily harm after an incident against London Irish in January . |
| 23 | Brady is to appear before the SFA Disciplinary Committee after an incident against Airdrie at Parkhead on October 24 . |
| 24 | One prediction of the black-hole model is a large outburst of luminosity after an increase of accretion onto the black hole . |
| 25 | After an increase of 25pc in customers during 1990 , they achieved another 10pc increase in 1991 . |
| 26 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
| 27 | After an hour at Customs , a military officer took us to a restaurant and then to the barracks to sleep . |
| 28 | Eventually , after an hour of torment , Jeopardy swung out of a configuration with the words , ‘ It is clear we will accomplish little today . ’ |
| 29 | The skirt was lovely , there was no doubt of that , swishing down rustling folds to the deep ruffle at the hem , but she was doubtful about managing the small train , even after an hour of practice in front of Aunt Emily . |
| 30 | It is n't some shallow need that goes away after an hour in bed with you . |