Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , Niki soon built on an overwhelming lead in the championship , though a first crisis came at Long Beach when Audetto suggested that Clay Regazzoni ought to have his day in the sun . |
| 2 | Julia Hailes may sip her coffee from a Greenpeace mug and talk of the need for eventual radical environmental legislation , but dark green persons suspect Hailes and her green consumerism of complacency . |
| 3 | The MCC should have their review finalised for the ICC meeting in January . |
| 4 | Until then MacDonald must withhold his resignation . |
| 5 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 6 | My boss had arranged that Ken Billings should postpone his calf feeding till we got there so that we could witness the process . |
| 7 | Oh Sarah should have her roof on by this week did you hear what I said ? |
| 8 | Sarah should have her roof on this weekend . |
| 9 | And third , Germany must cut its budget deficit to make room for lower interest rates . |
| 10 | And with prices in the collection starting at only £3.32 , Sensiq should leave your bank balance looking as healthy as your skin . |
| 11 | A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas . |
| 12 | Rocky may get his chance if England midfielder David Batty fails to make it for the Boro game . |
| 13 | Eleven months on , Beasant is an outcast and Hitchcock is getting rave reviews in Chelsea 's brilliant run , but now Hitchcock may lose his place to Russian Dmitri Kharin . |
| 14 | It was also proposed that the WEU should move its secretariat from London to Brussels , in order to reinforce its links with the EC , but no decision was expected until the question of political union in the EC had taken a more definitive shape ( the Maastricht summit of the EC 's European Council being scheduled to agree on this in December 1991 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ We reiterated our support for US help and our reasons for seeing the envoy as one way in which the United States should express its friendship to Ireland and to Britain . ’ |
| 16 | There were several prominent Anglophobes in Truman 's Administration , like James Byrnes , the Secretary of State , but most of the opposition stemmed from the widely held belief within the American electorate that the United States should guard its lead , if not monopoly , in military and civil uses of atomic energy . |
| 17 | This Henry almost persuaded them to do — until the Young King also demanded that Richard should swear his oath on a holy relic ; at which Richard simply turned round and declared that Aquitaine was his anyway by right from his mother and had nothing to do with anyone else . |
| 18 | I would have been sorrier still if she had not paraded her distress so openly , sighing and staring into space and insisting that Richard should buy her whisky , which is expensive in Morocco — in her place I should have been so humiliated and ashamed that I would have done my best to put a good face on it — but I was sorry enough to agree that she should come with us , in our car . |
| 19 | Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand . |
| 20 | Government sources claimed that the SNP had broken the deal by not voting with Conservative MPs on Wednesday and implied that Mr Lang might reconsider his position on appointments to the European Community committee of the regions . |
| 21 | His principal concern had been pastoral — that Lyell might abuse his position of responsibility by drawing conclusions of general human significance , not strictly deducible from his science . |
| 22 | Since the characters that helped the individual to succeed in the battle were the traditional Protestant virtues of enterprise , initiative and thrift , Spencer could project his philosophy as a new foundation for traditional morality , despite its tendency to encourage indifference to the suffering of those who still needed to be taught a lesson by a wise but harsh Nature . |
| 23 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |
| 24 | Before Corbett could open his mouth , Prince Edward came forward and took him firmly by the hand . |
| 25 | Finally , he suggested that that if Telefonica de Espana SA could forecast its investment more effectively , Spanish companies would in turn be able to plan their production better . |
| 26 | Although Bernice could understand her wish for peace and quiet , Ell must be joking saying that she would prefer to be back home . |
| 27 | Les Verts could make their debut in elected office . |
| 28 | Her hair was too short to fall far across her face , so Edward could see her expression , tender and deliberate . |
| 29 | There was no way in which Lucy could control her response . |
| 30 | Our hypothetical Ann could eat her packet of peanuts , for example , if she added three half-hour swims to her weekly routine . |