Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's face it , the only reason Bowe won the world title was because Evander Holyfield simply was n't big enough . |
| 2 | There is provision for Member States to pay at a level above the stated maximum in order ‘ to improve or maintain the natural landscape ’ but such increased payments will not be eligible for EEC refund so are very unlikely to be implemented . |
| 3 | Snow Cottage simply was n't big enough for all of them , particularly when Perdita , who still had n't forgiven her mother , was always banging doors and making scenes . |
| 4 | Before he was twenty ( an age at which most FI drivers today are already well established in the regular line of ascent towards FI ) , Mario was racing several times a week — sometimes five races in a day — in whatever cars he could get his hands on : jalopies , sprints , three-quarter midgets , midgets . |
| 5 | THE most interesting race on the Wolverhampton programme today is the Hyacinth Handicap , in which recent acquisition One For The Pot makes his debut for the Mick Naughton stable . |
| 6 | Colonel Blimp today is likely to be a Roundhead colonel , in his professed sentiments a Leveller , though not of course in his practices . |
| 7 | It was cowardly , she knew , but the thought of seeing Didi Lombard again was n't one she relished . |
| 8 | One wonders how many other Steven Morrisseys there are still sitting in their bedrooms . |
| 9 | She liked the mixing of ages , she even liked a little friction , and friction there would be : Ivan Warner alone was usually enough to raise the temperature of any social gathering to conflagration point , and Ivan in conjunction with Charles 's Fleet Street friends and television moguls , with a few publishers and poets and novelists , with an actress or two , with a clutch of psychologists and psychotherapists and art historians and civil servants and lawyers and extremely quarrelsome politicians , would surely manage to set the place on fire ? |
| 10 | But she does not share the criminality of the real-life Frith who was apparently arrested several times , and variously recorded as being a bawd , thief , receiver , gang-leader , and whore ; the character Moll Cutpurse definitely is not these things , and in the play-world is only falsely accused of being so . |
| 11 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 12 | I wo n't bore you all with the technical details ; suffice it to say that the alloy truss rod previously fitted to Warwick basses just is n't man enough for the job — a classic case of a nice design let down by choice of materials . |
| 13 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 14 | FOR 15 hours on Tuesday Palestinians worldwide were faced with a prospect which few can seriously have thought about before — that of the PLO without Yasser Arafat as leader . |
| 15 | I mean , it may just be possible that Diblo Dibala actually is the best guitarist on Earth |
| 16 | The other camp talk of the riddle of Riddick Bowe finally being unravelled . |
| 17 | Patrington Haven today is a compact hamlet . |
| 18 | If this Elisa woman really was Elsie — and he was convinced that she was — how he envied her . |
| 19 | Milton 's prompt offer of assistance , however , had deflected the criticism from the Argyll party itself , and Mrs. Mary happily was able to report that those who were once Sir James Campbell 's friends ‘ continues firm in their good wishes to my Chief and Lord Milton , those two healths is often drunk without naming their Member ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll organize the meat wagon once David Bailey here 's finished . ’ |
| 21 | This has been a good debate , as Friday debates often are . |
| 22 | Brisbane State High was a mixed school , and it was n't only the girls who found Eva Burrows good company . |
| 23 | Miss Forester here is expected . |
| 24 | The new SuperSprinter trains will replace many of the existing Pacers between Saltburn , Redcar , Middlesbrough and Darlington , with the number of trains running on the Darlington to Saltburn line also being increased . |
| 25 | Parque de la Paz lies in one of the prettiest parts of Las Americas yet is only a short walk from loads of bars and discos . |
| 26 | If so , the claim would have to be dealt with under our own policy , with Lloyds Underwriters only being involved where the amount of the claim exceeds the sum insured , whereby they would have to deal with the balance of the claim over the policy limits . |
| 27 | Getting Sting and Dustin Hoffman together was inspired . |
| 28 | Had Norman Cowans , Ricky Ellcock and Angus Fraser all been healthy , the script would surely have taken its expected course ; as it is , the Middlesex seam attack deserves that ‘ pop-gun ’ tag rather more than its national counterpart . |
| 29 | Ken Berry too was deeply sceptical . |
| 30 | The film actor Richard Todd also was made OBE , as was an ITN cameraman , Nigel Thomson , twice wounded while working last year , and a former England cricket manager , Micky Stewart . |