Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty per cent of the women attending a Dow-Stoker Returners programme decide to come back to work because of a trauma . |
| 2 | Now his campaign is threatening to self-destruct because of a controversy over racial politics involving the comedian Jackie Mason . |
| 3 | English is , of course , not a tone language , and the function of tone is much more difficult to define than in a tone language . |
| 4 | ‘ Fellows around here do n't know what to do except with a radius of about three hundred yards . |
| 5 | Preference shares normally carry no rights to vote except on a resolution for the winding up of the company , or to modify the rights attaching to the shares . |
| 6 | As with due diligence , the warranties in an asset sale are likely to be far shorter and hence quicker and cheaper to negotiate than in a share sale . |
| 7 | The ships in harbour had to leave because of a storm ; they sailed away bearing his new widow and her son , aged two , who grew up to become a big game hunter in central Africa . |
| 8 | Harrison , who was 17 when he went to Anfield for £250,000 in 1985 , did not play a senior match and was forced to retire because of a knee ligament injury . |
| 9 | Our plan formed to become intimately involved in our community , and where better to start than via a group like our community association ? |
| 10 | For the purchaser , it is important to consider whether as a result of the assignment the purchaser will be able to enforce the benefit of the contract directly against the supplier or whether such benefit can only be enforced with the co-operation of the vendor . |
| 11 | AARON KRICKSTEIN , advised by doctors to withdraw because of a foot injury , won the South African Open at Ellis Park , Johannesburg , by beating top-seeded Russian Alexander Volkov 6–4 , 6–4 yesterday . |
| 12 | ‘ which carries obligatory lamps ’ 'Obligatory lamps ' , in relation to a vehicle , means such of the obligatory front lamps , obligatory headlamps and obligatory rear lamps as the vehicle is required , by virtue of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations , to carry when on a road during the hours of darkness ( as defined by the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations ) . |
| 13 | They are most likely to occur because of a jerk in the cable causing an overrun , with the rope becoming tangled in the main wheel of the glider . |
| 14 | Poland 's official trade unions were refusing to sign because of a dispute over how much workers should be compensated for rising prices . |