Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a lot of readers will recognise your Murphy 's Law Jean and may even have another name for it . |
| 2 | Overseas , Wimpey Construction Management is carrying out fee-based technical and management services for the £200 million Colombo Centre project for Sonae Group in Lisbon , Portugal and will vigorously attempt to develop further this market in 1993 , a market which will also provide opportunities for the consultancy arm of GROVE PROJECTS . |
| 3 | The resulting redrawing of constituency boundaries meant that French-speakers living in the suburbs of Brussels would become part of the Flemish province of Brabant surrounding Brussels and would thus lose the right to vote French speakers into the regional parliaments . |
| 4 | Some of his staff had urged that he abandon the Duchess 's ball , but such an act , he knew , would only have offered encouragement to the Emperor 's many supporters in Brussels and could even have prompted the wholesale desertion of Belgian troops . |
| 5 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 6 | Action group chairman Gareth Owen said : ‘ This route is the worst option for Caergeiliog and will seriously and unnecessarily effect the quality of life in the village . ’ |
| 7 | People who are self-employed are not included in SERPS and can therefore only provide for their retirement with a personal pension plan plus the basic state pension . |
| 8 | In London , the Foreign Office yesterday refused to confirm reports that the deportations would start as early as next Saturday and would only repeat the formula that they would take place sooner rather than later . |
| 9 | Gupta Technologies Inc is to port its SQLBase database server to Univel Inc 's UnixWare and will also make its SQL/API application programming interface available , allowing users to integrate with the likes of Oracle Corp , Informix Corp , Sybase Inc and Ingres products later in the year . |
| 10 | Mansell will commute to races from his ritzy £4million oceanside mansion in Clearwater , Florida and will now sell his £3million cliff-top home in the Isle of Man . |
| 11 | Whatever the reality on Capitol Hill , Ceauşescu undoubtedly believed the pro-Israeli gestures would win Romania influence in Washington and would perhaps lead them to accept his differentiation of Romanian foreign policy from the Kremlin 's at face-value . |
| 12 | So now when our crews came back from their missions and we heard snatches of their conversations about long lines of refugees , about cities being devastated , and miles and miles of fires , I remembered Kings Cross and could only feel pity for what these civilians were now enduring ; French , Dutch , German or whatever . |
| 13 | A similarly defensive approach characterized the campaigns of the right-wing Democratic Socialist Party ( DSP ) and Komeito ( Clean Government Party ) , both of which suffered from the legacy of having had their leaders resign in 1989 ( in February and May respectively ) in connection with the Recruit scandal [ see pp. 36464 ; 36654 ] . |
| 14 | She had lived in the States for several years but she still retained her British accent , though she often maintained that she loathed England and would never return to it . |
| 15 | Following a successful pilot in Hull Branch , Cash Flo is being promoted throughout the north east of England and could eventually go nationwide . |
| 16 | In all cases the Action Team works with LEDU and can sometimes provide support in addition to that which LEDU can provide and in other cases can provide assistance to firms not eligible for LEDU assistance . |
| 17 | Okay , so we accept that Councillor Tiffany is now substituting Councillor Kurtz and may now take her full part in the meeting . |
| 18 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 19 | Unlike NATO , which came together for collective defence , the European Community includes neutral Ireland and may soon include neutral Sweden and Austria too . |
| 20 | James had now failed to seize either of the main Protestant strongholds in Ireland and could clearly not feel secure till they had been subdued . |
| 21 | This is unfortunate as Ac-ASA is a much more stable compound that 5-ASA and could therefore be much more easily prepared for widespread commercial use . |
| 22 | Galapagos hawks , for instance , are numerous on Santiago and would quickly gather round the plentiful carcasses . |
| 23 | There was a journalist , too — or maybe Antonio Francesca Pigafetta was a Venetian spy , since he came from Venice , was an acquaintance of the Doge and could well have been told to keep a wary eye on Spanish imperial ambitions in the East . |
| 24 | I wanted to go with her but she said she had a lot to sort out with Fernando and would rather be on her own . ’ |
| 25 | Twice , he got to Nicosia and could hardly respond to the ardour he found in Primaflora . |
| 26 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 27 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 28 | She had planned to walk home , but accepted , on the front steps , an offer of a lift from Teddy Lazenby and his wife Delia , who lived in Campden Square and could easily drop her off . |
| 29 | This year 's Ars Antiqua will run from 7 to 15 November and will again include two weekends to provide maximum time for viewing and reflecting on purchases . |
| 30 | Such plans , which could put some software in maintenance mode and some in the morgue , do n't appear to have affected DEC 's flagship database Rdb which is reportedly being rewritten in C for OSF/1 and may also get ported to Windows NT . |