Example sentences of "[subord] [noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was certainly true of his year as social security minister , where Major would prefer to be remembered for dispensing fivers to freezing pensioners in the form of severe-weather payments ( even though they received only one each for one week ) , than for helping to draft the 1988 Social Security Act . |
| 2 | He appears to have made his own luck and , despite setbacks such as presenting the short-lived TV quiz show Scruples , it looks as if Simon will continue to be a success . |
| 3 | The Unitarian congregation in the town was shortly to lose its minister , and had written on the recommendation of John Prior Estlin to ask if Coleridge would agree to be considered as successor . |
| 4 | The outlook was considered all the more rosy from their point of view , since Denwood would have to be made what is known as a divisional point , that is to say , a station of more than ordinary importance , inasmuch as it would indicate the end of a running section — the point where the train would have to change engines . |
| 5 | The realization that such a policy would almost certainly involve war , for Austria would have to be driven out of the Confederation and France might be unwilling to acquiesce in the creation of a powerful new Germanic state , did not worry Bismarck . |