Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halifax Building Society , the nation 's biggest mortgage lender , and Bradford & Bingley are offering new buyers of repossessed homes a rock-bottom mortgage rate of 4.99% . |
| 2 | Safeway , Asda and the Co-op have responded to the EIA 's call , while Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer are labelling all Faroese fish . |
| 3 | An analogy can be drawn with Corfu Channel where Albania was held liable for its failure to take action to prevent the mining of the British ships , and the Iranian Hostages case where Iran was liable for its failure to protect the American Embassy . |
| 4 | Lectio or Reading was considered essential for prayer ( Oratio ) ; it enabled a monk to enter into himself and discover what had to be changed in the light of divine truth . |
| 5 | Just days after paying out $400m in a record settlement , Ernst & Young is facing another claim , this time for $55m . |
| 6 | Five minutes after entering his office Zen reappeared in the inspectors ' room , where Geraci was watching Chiodini fill in a coupon for a competition promising the winner a lifetime supply of tomato concentrate . |
| 7 | He then joined his brother at the Brighton works of the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway from 1871 to 1875 , working under the direction of William Stroudley [ q.v. ] , after which the two brothers moved to the North British Railway works at Cowlairs and in 1882 to the neighbouring works at St Rollox of the Caledonian Railway , where Peter was appointed assistant locomotive engineer and works manager . |
| 8 | She would probably conform to the type of village heroine K. Fedin described in his story Tishina ( Stillness ) which depicts the depths of Smolensk guberniia in 1922–3 , where Fedin was to spend several sum , mers during NEP . |
| 9 | Suddenly Lomax caught a suggestion of movement on the fire escape platform , directly above where Foster was standing straddle-legged facing the alley wall . |
| 10 | The small town cafe which finds Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald 's producing crippling competition in its own area , is just as much a victim of these trends as ICI , Shell or Unilever . |
| 11 | The reference to a proposed parachute operation is strange , because there is no evidence that Stirling was planning any such thing at the time , yet the correspondence is dated 30 and 31 December 1941 , when Stirling was in the desert . |
| 12 | On Aug. 9 , Zagreb radio announced that Tudjman was to replace Premier Franjo Greguric and his government . |
| 13 | It is clear that LRT is planning regular increases above the rate of inflation for at least the next five years . |
| 14 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 15 | Carl from upstairs got arrested too , and he said that Ibrahim was screaming all night in the room next to him in the prison , and when they opened the door in the morning , he 'd scratched all the skin off of his face . |
| 16 | Digital Equipment Corp was the most obvious absentee from the Common Open Software Environment jamboree last week ( CI No 2,130 ) : was it , as some have said , that DEC was steering clear of anything that might damage Microsoft 's Windows NT ? — apparently not — DEC says it was simply that no one invited to join until the day before the launch . |
| 17 | I suppose it is just possible that Hippodameia was set next her father , Sterope on the other side ( cross-linking the wings , like the archers in the east pediment at Aegina , above , p. 45 ) , and Pausanias was wrong in this point too . |
| 18 | She would worry that Kelly was becoming involved in the sleazy aftermath of her father 's death . |
| 19 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 20 | He noticed that Jim was wearing some very expensive-looking clothes , and feared he might be spending all Bella 's earnings on his own back . |
| 21 | Then I found out that Jim was making all the original pedals as well , so I decided to get rid of all the stuff I 'd been trying to make all these sounds with and just use the original things . |
| 22 | That was before he came to recognize that Karnstein was using this by-the-book method of criticism to show displeasure at the nature of their business . |
| 23 | Then she began to feel anxious , for she could sense that Fontana was getting set to make the same impossible leap . |
| 24 | ‘ Correspondence was found clearly showing that Ellis was selling these unclassified videos . |
| 25 | He said that David was getting ready to tour America , but he did n't want normal rock and roll people — he wanted weird , crazy people to be his staff and he asked whether we 'd do it . |
| 26 | Relations had deteriorated in 1989 following accusations that Uganda was supporting Kenyan dissidents [ see p. 36918 ] . |
| 27 | On March 4 it was announced that APEC was holding further discussions on the inclusion of China , Taiwan and Hong Kong , having reached a consensus on the need to admit all the " three Chinas " to the group [ see pp. 37613 ; 37656 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ They are simply the best in the business , ’ admitted Ipswich veteran John Warke but until Campbell 's treble blast yesterday , Arsenal manager George Graham was worried that Wright was getting all the best lines . |
| 29 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 30 | The head explained that he and the class teacher felt that Balbinder was making little progress and they were worried about his lack of concentration and poor language . |