Example sentences of "[vb -s] finally [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 2 | REGGAE star Shabba Ranks has finally scored his first solo hit after releasing a staggering 30 singles on 15 different labels since 1988 . |
| 3 | The Spanish Government 's Telecommunications Office , having twice rejected all competitive bids for a national radio-paging licence , has finally granted this honour to Sistelcom Telemensaje , which will offer the first of three national radio-paging services that were envisaged under the National Telecommunications Plan . |
| 4 | THE BRITISH government 's decision to pour taxpayers ' money into a new factory to make video tape for the Japanese firm , Hitachi , has finally killed off the idea of putting a tax on the tape . |
| 5 | This consultative process has finally culminated in the publication of government White Papers setting out new proposals for change . |
| 6 | KEYLINE , the forthcoming home shopping service based on a new portable terminal ( Computer , July 7 , 1988 and September 7 , 1989 ) has finally announced the names of some of the firms who will use it . |
| 7 | It has been an awful long time in the development , but V M Technologies , the semiconductor development affiliate of ASCII Corp , the software development company run by Kazuhiko Nishi , which has been having a rough time of it of late , has finally announced that it has completed the preparation to sell its long-promised home-grown microprocessor fully compatible with Intel Corp 's 80386 , the first 80386 clone developed in Japan . |
| 8 | THE GOSPEL according to Bobby Gillespie has always been more fun to read than to listen to but the media-friendly Scotsman has finally justified his own hype by drawing up the definitive blueprint for ‘ 90 's Rave culture . |
| 9 | Jack ‘ I 'll be retiring soon ’ Duncan has finally gone and in a few weeks I shall also have a clear desk and be on my way to Viewforth , Stirling to take up my appointment as Director of Technical Services in Central Region . |
| 10 | The latest security report says installing cameras has finally led to a fall in car theft , but overall hospital crime rose 12.5% last year . |
| 11 | Yet Steve Martin , the shy master of American comedy , has finally revealed his true ambition . |
| 12 | And with Paul Ince , Darren Ferguson and Ryan Giggs all available again , Fergie is also boosted by the fact that Danny Wallace has finally rid himself of his hang-ups . |
| 13 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 14 | France 's highest legal body has finally dismissed an appeal against a light water reactor complex at Cruas on the river Rhone . |
| 15 | MODERN molecular biology has finally answered one of the most important questions thrown up by experiments in the last century on the nature of genetic inheritance . |
| 16 | Pieper says it will also feature Quarterdeck Office Systems Inc 's MS-DOS implementation of the X-Window system , Desqview/X — which has finally appeared after lengthy delays ( UX No 380 ) — if its can get the thing up and running on it . |
| 17 | C H SISSON — poet , translator , novelist , critic , polemicist , former Whitehall mandarin and the candidate who should have won Oxford 's Chair of Poetry — has finally unveiled his life 's story , most of it told , with typical unconventionality , backwards . |
| 18 | This year , London has finally acquiesced . |
| 19 | To most Englishmen such a conjunction will be unbelievable ; but , on returning to England , he may find himself wondering how he has finally accepted the Spanish view . |
| 20 | KEEPER Bruce Grobbelaar has finally accepted he has no future at Liverpool . |
| 21 | The official recognition means the Roy al Family has finally accepted the inevitable — that Diana and Charles will lead separate lives within their marriage . |
| 22 | The Treasury has finally accepted the Holkham Hall Guido Reni , ‘ Joseph and Potiphar 's wife ’ in lieu of tax . |
| 23 | After saying it would produce a £200 facsimile-transmission unit designed to bring electronic mail to the person in the street , the PTT has finally acknowledged that the project is a non-starter . |
| 24 | GARY LINEKER has finally acknowledged that he believes England manager Graham Taylor conducted a personal vendetta against him . |
| 25 | ‘ Science has finally confirmed what many a mere male has long suspected — that the troubles of the world are women 's fault , and if there were fewer of them , things would get on a whole lot better . |
| 26 | IBM Corp has finally confirmed the elusive story that gained a little currency about a month ago that it planned a massive borrowing spree ( CI No 2,151 ) . |
| 27 | After many years languishing in the backwaters of Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre the page description language has finally blossomed forth , although not , it must be said , from Xerox . |
| 28 | She has finally stopped saying she 's got , she 's had office experience . |
| 29 | God has finally lost all patience and all hope . |
| 30 | Whether or not she has finally lost touch with the sympathies of her daughter 's subjects , only time will tell . |