Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [modal v] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 2 | Mascot diet : Organisers of Atlanta 's 1996 Olympics said their mascot a shapeless smiling blob known as Whatizit would be slimmed down and given a proper male name to broaden its appeal . |
| 3 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |
| 4 | Kingfisher 's bid for Dixons should be investigated . |
| 5 | The special general meeting called by the Union for Friday will be held in camera following a general committee vote to exclude the press . |
| 6 | A final damages figure for Eleanor will be agreed within the next 6 to 9 months but , if not , the case will go back to the High Court for the compensation to be decided . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Worcester will be leaving the House at the end of this Parliament , and I wish him well . |
| 8 | Bessmertnykh met with Baker and Bush in Washington for talks on the Gulf crisis , arms control and the forthcoming summit ; agreed that summit scheduled for February would be postponed because of Gulf conflict . |
| 9 | Meanwhile appetites for Lam can be supplemented by a small show of drawings ( the artist 's primary medium ) at the Galerie Lelong ( 10 November to 23 December ) . |
| 10 | Does the Minister believe that a vitally important stabilisation fund for Russia can be made to work successfully without tackling the problems of food supply in Russian markets , especially when we consider the consequences for money supply and wage inflation ? |
| 11 | The Bank has informed the IBOA that a separate Information Technology Group for Ireland will be set up , based in Belfast . |
| 12 | Over the next six months calls through AEA will be monitored to see if a measurable improvement in call handling is evident and to compare our performance with that of other major UK organisations . |
| 13 | If he could be captured and dealt with , much of the danger for Scotland would be dispersed and his Scots support would dissolve . |
| 14 | These include a commitment that the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland must be consulted on all planed developments affecting sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 15 | And the Blackburn star insisted : ‘ Now I am playing under Kenny Dalglish I feel my chances of finally achieving my ambition of playing for Scotland must be enhanced . |
| 16 | To help him do that , manager Graham Taylor 's best hope of Wright reproducing his Arsenal club form for England will be to let his free spirit roam across Wembley . |
| 17 | These Year 8 pupils from Lakers School in the Forest of Dean will be studying the play next year . |
| 18 | Four miles away at Caerleon , the ruins of one of the three main military bases in Roman Britain , the Legionary Fortress of Isca can be explored . |
| 19 | The remaining 51 per cent of Qantas will be sold off in a public share float some time next year . |
| 20 | Even a single cyst of Giardia can be detected by the PCR , and this is a reasonable sensitivity for environmental testing . |
| 21 | If the right kind of Masai could be persuaded to act as government headmen , C.E.V. Buxton said , ‘ the ideal of indirect rule could be achieved ’ . |
| 22 | As a result , the experimental , deductive approach of Pilkingtons can be contrasted to the programmatic , inductive rationales which characterized both the Anglo-Japanese strategy of RX and the Anglo-American initiative of Ford . |
| 23 | National policy decisions about farming , rural housing , pollution control and about the guidelines which planners are obliged to follow are matters on which the national voice of CPRW must be heard . |
| 24 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 25 | The vast body of experimental data which has been accumulated in support of SR can be reconciled with the SEP by making the inference , as Einstein did , that physics in free fall must be consistent with SR . |
| 26 | A CONTROVERSIAL plan for a superstore and housing on the outskirts of Middlesbrough will be discussed by residents tonight . |
| 27 | The Fangsword is specific to Eltharion and only he may carry it but the Talisman of Hoeth can be bought for other High Elf characters by paying the appropriate points cost . |
| 28 | In 1942 , after a long preamble once again accusing the government of ‘ favouritism ’ towards the Masai , he asked in the Legislative Council if a thousand square miles of Masailand could be set aside for ‘ settlement of fighting services personnel , when their job of destroying our foul enemies , who would make slaves of the Masai , is completed ’ . |
| 29 | It is a familiar theme in Latin American fiction , and something of the flavour of this part of Panama can be gleaned from Garcia Marquez 's One Hundred Years Of Solitude , set in the forgotten swamps of Colombia ( of which Panama once formed part ) . |
| 30 | The US maintains that it supports the OAS charter , that it is acting to protect the integrity of the Panama Canal treaties , and that Latin America has no cause to fear that the invasion of Panama will be used as a precedent . |