Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interim government , a coalition of conservative parties , was bound more by common hostility to Bhutto than by a consensus on policy . |
| 2 | Liverpool 's Rob Jones expects to be fit after failing to re-appear in the second half of the 1–0 defeat against Aston Villa because of a calf injury . |
| 3 | The AC Milan player , who has not played since last May 's European Cup triumph over Steaua Bucharest because of a knee injury , is involved in a contract dispute with the club . |
| 4 | The on-loan Millwall keeper comes into the reckoning at Southend on Saturday because of a fitness doubt over Welsh international Tony Norman . |
| 5 | PAKISTAN captain Imran Khan ( left ) said yesterday that he could miss this summer 's tour to England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 6 | Imran Khan , the Pakistan captain , may miss this summer 's tour of England because of a shoulder injury . |
| 7 | Well it is but I mus n't let it annoy me Brenda because in a way he must know what he 's doing . |
| 8 | He died suddenly , 7 October 1969 , in Trondheim while on a lecture tour in Norway . |
| 9 | She had her own ideas of social justice , and not paying a good employee like Lily because of a death in the family was not one of them . |
| 10 | St Helens prop Kevin Ward is struggling to be fit for Sunday 's Regal Trophy first round tie against Leeds at Knowsley Road because of a neck injury , but New Zealander George Mann could return to the pack after a being out for a month with back trouble . |
| 11 | He was substituted at Coventry because of a toe injury . |
| 12 | Similarly , the Wallabies were unable to play with continuity in the first half of the Second Test at Ballymore because of a string of penalties but were finally able to chain together some magical passages of play . |
| 13 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 14 | There 's a war , the Germans are trying to kill every Jew in the world and you are going to hang one Masai because of a misunderstanding . ’ |
| 15 | In Socinus 's theology , therefore , there was no room for Christ except as a voice proclaiming salvation . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher interprets the Madrid formula more as a pretext for not joining the EMS than as a set of three conditions for joining it . |
| 17 | Under the 1987 Philippines Constitution , once the existing bases agreement expired , " foreign military bases , troops or facilities shall not be allowed in the Philippines except under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate [ upper house of parliament ] … and recognized as a treaty by the other contracting state " . |
| 18 | Once he was in power , this alternative view would argue , his policies were more consistent with a belief that it was still feasible to salvage some kind of organic link between France and Algeria than with a belief in the inevitability of complete rupture . |
| 19 | Moreover , once the King went to the States there was no way he could ever return to Iran except as a parcel from the CIA . |
| 20 | The signing ceremony , fixed for 28 August , had to be postponed until 2 September because of a typhoon . |
| 21 | The decision by the Swedish authorities to restart operations at the plant , which had been closed down in September because of a flaw in the emergency cooling system [ see ED 63 ] , has been strongly criticized in Denmark . |
| 22 | The MNR had until this time boycotted the CSC because of a dispute over the provision of accommodation in Maputo for MNR delegates . |
| 23 | I had read it hungrily in Lima when for a time it was the most substantial piece of luggage I possessed . |
| 24 | It would be fair to say that desktop publishing was undoubtedly the beginning of the revolution ; the programs are just so much easier to use on the Macintosh than on a PC . |
| 25 | ‘ My name is Captain Trentham , ’ the man informed the expectant band of untrained warriors , in an accent that Charlie suspected would have sounded more in place in Mayfair than at a railway station in Scotland . |
| 26 | I first read Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o while on a visit to Kenya . |
| 27 | He summed up the benefits of open systems to Harris as including a reduction in operating costs of between 60% and 75% , functional staff reductions of between 20-50% , software maintenance savings of between 50% and 60% and cost avoidance in the region of $250m to $300m , this being based on the cost per MIPS of a mainframe , $44,300 , compared with a workstation server of $761 per MIPS . |
| 28 | A CHILEAN judge has halted a probe into the death of British defence journalist Jonathan Moyle because of a lack of clues . |
| 29 | On Feb. 23 the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen had met with opposition representatives and President Déby while on a visit to N'Djamena , and had expressed continued US support for the " democratic process in Chad " . |
| 30 | Tension has built up in Libya because of a refusal by their Government to surrender two nationals suspected of the Lockerbie bombing . |