Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A study undertaken at Loughborough university will shortly show that there is a significant Lib-Dem voting presence among CND 's membership . ) |
| 2 | The head office golf society has a big season lined up this year , so are hoping that the wet weather on March 31 at Langley Park will not set a precedent for its forthcoming dates . |
| 3 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 4 | A COMMITTED Colchester side could not prevent National League Division One side Old Loughtonians from claiming the Essex Cup for the seventh time in ten years down in Chigwell . |
| 5 | The Kitty Kat Club would n't allow an unescorted woman inside , so Jacqui inveigled her next date into taking her . |
| 6 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 7 | Similarly , the leftist politician , Meir Pa'il does not foresee a return in the sense intended in UN Resolution 194 : ‘ Clearly , the mere establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would not provide a concrete solution for the problem of the Palestine refugees in Lebanon and perhaps not even for those in the Gaza Strip … |
| 8 | At the same time prominent Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip would probably have emerged with their status greatly enhanced . |
| 9 | Given the inevitable fact that the next PLO chairman could not hope to match the stature and international acclaim which Mr Arafat has acquired over the years , many Palestinians believe that the influence of the organisation would wane accordingly . |
| 10 | Most pubs in the country are owned by the big six breweries , so Glennie Brewery can only sell to freehouses . |
| 11 | The AP correspondent would then read out the latest dispatch form Teheran and according to the British embassy , " The Shah would then put on his spectacles and , in a charming manner which endeared him to present , would comment in his quiet English on the news . |
| 12 | All further proof that Elvis ' current Grizzly Adams guise may yet turn out to be one of his most interesting phases . |
| 13 | A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago . |
| 14 | The Guardian newspaper , in partnership with the Royal Institute for the Blind and associates has launched a system that enables the entire editorial text of the newspaper to be transmitted nightly via Teletext on Channel 4 television 's frequencies to a personal computer , which can read the text in a synthesised voice to blind and partially sighted people : those that can afford an £8,000 Braille terminal can also read the text that way , and it can also be displayed in large print on the screen for those with poor sight ; the text is structured so that readers can scan the headlines and choose the items that interest them ; the paper will be marketed , serviced and supported by Electronic Text Networks Associates Ltd of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , a commercial venture one third owned by the Guardian and the charity ; the other shareholders , each with a third share , are Aptech Ltd , which specialises in computer aids for disabled people , and Intelligent Research Ltd , which made the hardware for the system ; the decoder board for the personal computer is £400 , plus about £500 for a speech synthesizer ; the annual subscription to the electronic paper is £160 and the partners hope that other papers will decide to go onto the system . |
| 15 | Many of them , like the stores empire assembled by Mr Robert Campeau ( owner of Bloomingdale 's and Bon Marché ) , Resorts International , a casino operator , and Paramount Petroleum would probably have gone into bankruptcy whatever happened . |
| 16 | A resident at the C.I.C. hut could easily do a spot of rock-climbing , nip into Fort William to indulge in some leisurely shopping for tartan gonks and still be back in time for a sing-song round the primus stove . |
| 17 | The fears of the Scruton philosophy may well turn out to have been exaggerated . |
| 18 | Veteran readers of Ireland 's Saturday Night can still rhyme off the contributors who used to grace its pages . |
| 19 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | Many Palestinians also feared that the PLO leadership would not welcome the kind of lively debate and democracy which the popular movement had fostered , but would wish to be authoritarian in its government . |
| 21 | The fact that the Erne outfit could only draw with Armagh on Sunday last despite having home advantage does not lessen McCabe 's optimism as he anticipates this week-end 's replay at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 22 | Make no mistake , Wright 's short fuse is a serious business and if Graham is to lose a top player through suspension , on top of all the headlines on his ill-discipline , the Arsenal manager may soon wonder if he is worth the trouble . |
| 23 | Lawler was anchor man for his K1 semi final and Andy Train could only manage 7th in C1 . |
| 24 | A number of " smaller fish " had already been prosecuted and were serving prison terms ; Sir Joh , however , challenging the prosecution to mount a retrial , insisted that no Queensland jury would ever convict him . |
| 25 | That would mean , to quote one of my fishermen who suggested the proposal , ’ Johnny foreigner can not get any more of our British quota . ’ |
| 26 | Most commentators , from the 1968 Select Committee onwards , argue that HM Inspectorate should not expand to the extent that it is able to carry out a full programme of regular inspections ( Hopkins , 1982 , is an exception ) . |
| 27 | The Harrods affair will not have helped his political career . |
| 28 | Sovereignty is the , we 'll turn to it later , we 'll look at sovereignty again , but linked to sovereignty is the idea that you can make legislation , you can pass laws and then you can say these laws are going to be carried out , implemented by courts followed by sanctions though very little law is related to foreign policy because the British government or the Russian government or the United States government ca n't make laws which apply worldwide or outside its own area of claimed sovereignty so there is a difference of the environment in which foreign policy takes place . |
| 29 | BUDDING jockey Richard Painter will never forget his first turf winner after a hair-raising experience on 13–8 favourite Dodgy Dancer in the Bilborough Apprentice Maiden at Nottingham . |
| 30 | Since IBM is also downsizing the basic building block for its MVS mainframes with a view to moving to a moderately parallel mainframe architecture , it seems likely that the planned processor-Taligent combination would also succeed the CMOS ES/9000 chip that the company plans to make the basis of its future parallel mainframes over the next couple of years . |