Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available . |
| 2 | IF one partner has not been married before and the other one has , the couple are more likely to go into marriage than a couple where both partners have been married before . |
| 3 | Faldo could also be disciplined after being heard to swear on TV when a spectator took a photograph at the ninth and Faldo scored a six . |
| 4 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 5 | Mr Patten seems unwilling to postpone the bill 's publication until China agrees to talks , while China appears reluctant to agree to talks until a delay has been announced . |
| 6 | A child born less than a year after its elder sibling is twice as likely to die in infancy than a child born two to three years after . |
| 7 | Though the principles of representative government are important to pluralists as embodying equal rights to vote , express opinion and associate with like-minded people for political ends , the individual citizen of a democracy needs to be able to join with others before an interest can be effectively mobilized . |
| 8 | It is important to remember that it is often not possible to say with certainty whether a speaker has pronounced a syllabic consonant , a non-syllabic consonant or a non-syllabic consonant plus . |
| 9 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 10 | There is no association with particular geographic areas , community size or hospital type , but the crime does appear to occur in clusters once a kidnapping is extensively reported in the local media . |