Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen Titterington is due to line up in Liverpool |
| 2 | If Mr Moynihan is keen to hang on to his job he should get on to FIFA now and tell them to make the booking . |
| 3 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 4 | As Timothy West tells it , this was a moment as chilling as any Ken was able to conjure up in the theatre . |
| 5 | IBM is promising to come up with a cost-efficient CMOS microprocessor-based 390 in the second half of the year . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the Romans , whose tradition of town-planning had been completely forgotten after their departure , the earliest piece of town-planning that we know of in England is that carried out by Abbot Baldwin at Bury St Edmunds , between 1066 and 1086 . |
| 7 | But I fancy that England is content to get on with the war , and that things take a more practical turn at home . |
| 8 | Bills accepted by banks designated as ‘ eligible ’ banks by the Bank of England become first-class bills which the Bank of England is willing to deal in on the market . |
| 9 | By reacting in this way , Jane is able to stand back from the situation and it can not hurt her as it used to do . |
| 10 | But a combination of the £1.3 billion cash call and the general lack of confidence in the pharmaceutical sector means that Zeneca is unlikely to get off to the sort of flying start that some had hoped for . |
| 11 | Did he feel better or worse that neither the genuine Matthew Prescott nor the spurious Michael Watney was able to get through to Alexandra ? |
| 12 | Frank was keen to carry on with his commitments in Blackpool … particularly with the Labour Party conference , he did n't want to let them down . |
| 13 | ‘ Against the odds , Simon was able to play on after the interval and was an instrumental part of our fight-back . |
| 14 | Following a tap penalty Mark Willis and Wilkinson were both held up on the line before McGrath touched down and Mike Robson converted . |
| 15 | Rex and Harpo/Chico were all nuzzled up in the land of nod , so I took myself over to the window to watch the sun rise over Presley City . |
| 16 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 17 | Yet it is not clear that Thailand is well-placed to move on to the next stage of economic development . |
| 18 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 19 | SANDY LYLE is ready to pull out of the US Masters to be at his wife 's side for the birth of their first child . |
| 20 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 21 | Kurt was able to sign up without first enduring the humiliation of internment . |
| 22 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 23 | Dennis Skinner is likely to stay on with a reduced vote . |
| 24 | Ashdown is keen to find out about teleworking , the buzz-word for the Ruscoe phenomenon . |
| 25 | CROCODILE Dundee star Paul Hogan is all fired up for his new role as a Wild West outlaw . |
| 26 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 27 | Word came that the Sirdar liked it and Garvin was obliged to pass on to Owen a note of approval from the Consul-General . |
| 28 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 29 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 30 | Sam was apt to come out with explosive , inconsequential damnations which his class bore patiently , sympathetically . |