Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 2 | Beeson Gregory will in future guide smaller companies towards a full listing . |
| 3 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 4 | Miss Poraway should by now have collected twelve pence from Miss Vine . |
| 5 | Hill Street used to be a problem , with bucks and bobby-beating . |
| 6 | This particular store in Clapham 's Abbeville Road used to be an ordinary branch of Thresher . |
| 7 | I 've been racking my brain to remember what Sue Puffett used to be called . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's quite old now , of course , but Sir David Wyndham used to be a really big cheese in the business world … definitely a grand fromage ! ’ |
| 9 | Well , they 've had , they 've only had you must of been better or Miss Johnson would of said you could n't go to the public |
| 10 | Miss Jenny ought to be more thoughtful instead of causing extra work . " |
| 11 | Yes David Price used to you know sort of er sit in our meetings yeah as a treasurer it made sense you know our treasurer and him to work together and all that . |
| 12 | Dean Saunders should at least have emulated Trevor Francis 's hat-trick at Villa Park a week earlier , and Paul Goddard 's anger at being substituted suggested all is not well with last season 's fifth-placed team . |
| 13 | Indignant over suggestions that the Prime Minister has replaced his Jaguar with a Rover , Nigel Lawson can at least draw comfort from the fact that he is a wanted man in the City . |
| 14 | Dr Cassidy put forward fairly Burmin 's assertions that gold mining on Croagh Patrick would in no way interfere with the pilgrimage : ‘ I say in all fairness that should planning permission for mining ever be granted Burmin have given me repeated assurances that there will be no interference with the Pilgrim Path , there would be no interference with Patrick 's Peak or that particular part of the mountain range . ’ |
| 15 | If that 's the case , then the Panda Selecta ought to be a popular choice for many town buyers , given that it 's less than £6,000 . |
| 16 | From May the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía will at last be what its title implies , a national museum exhibiting a permanent collection of modern and contemporary works of art . |
| 17 | It was a delicious cheese , as good as the true Glamorgan Caerphilly used to be . |
| 18 | In the sense that , in a way going on from what I was saying on the face of it south China ought to be the area where land reform will be easiest to achieve in the sense that here you 've got a society which is landlord dominated , heavily landlord dominated and therefore w where one would expect that the antagonism , antagonisms between landlords and tenants would be at their greatest . |
| 19 | As Anita Mason shows , Simon Peter must at first have been thoroughly convinced that the world would literally end with Jesus 's death — that an apocalyptic holocaust would consume the whole of creation , that upheavals such as those recounted by Old Testament prophets would sweep the earth , that God would descend to pronounce stern judgement . |
| 20 | Even the much vaunted Mick Jones collaboration sounds like Mick Jones used to be in The Alarm not The Clash . |
| 21 | Mick Davies used to be a prison warder at Long Lartin jail . |
| 22 | SHOULD the worst come to the worst , John and Norma Major will at least be able to make a dignified departure from Downing Street . |
| 23 | Cos he used to Alan Bleasdale used to be Peter Reed 's teacher at school and the |
| 24 | There 's a tendency to take someone like Lowe and put him with no-talent good-lookers like Robert Taylor used to be , or Tyrone Power . ’ |
| 25 | Amos , Seth and Mr Wilks used to be like the Yorkshire version of Three Stooges , but now it 's all arguments and impending family feuds . |
| 26 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 27 | It had been thought here that Mr Lawson might at least repeat the formula of the Madrid summit , which defined when the time would be ripe for the pound to join with the words ‘ once inflation is again on a downward path and we have seen the removal of exchange controls by our Community partners ’ . |
| 28 | Given his interest in their progress and his social position Sir Richard would without doubt have proved an outstanding success as President of the BDDA , but , within eighteen months of his , election , he died . |
| 29 | Outside the political arena , where the spirit of Samuel Plimsoll could from time to time be induced to prevail , Wilson could claim few successes . |
| 30 | If this omission was not the fault of some over-zealous sub-editor , them Mr Bailey ought to be ashamed of himself . |