Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside is brandishing a document that he sent to me , but he refused my offer to come to see me . |
| 2 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 3 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 4 | Napoleon is meant to have said that an army marches on its stomach . |
| 5 | The pesticide is most frequently used on these crops , and the EPA is seeking to ban it from these also . |
| 6 | I think I understand a little better what Hockney is getting at with his ‘ reverse perspective ’ , though that seems a perverse way of describing ( I think ) an immersion in his subject matter . |
| 7 | Buxton is given a standing ovation |
| 8 | This factory at Wollaston in Northamptonshire is working flat out , making Doc Martens exclusively for the export market . |
| 9 | All Ruritania is waiting for him in Strelsau and Black Michael with half the army , too . |
| 10 | That 's where the Phoenix is standing right now there was great big piece there and they held a crafty there in the very first early in April . |
| 11 | Midland shares were the most actively traded on the stock market and fell 7 to 365p on announcement of the all-paper terms compared with the 400p which Lloyds is believed to be prepared to pay . |
| 12 | Mr Stringer , 48 , began his managerial apprenticeship at Carrow Road five years ago in similar circumstances to those Mr Crosby is facing at Roker Park . |
| 13 | Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table . |
| 14 | Crosby is fighting for his job after the 5–2 defeat at Peterborough . |
| 15 | Malcolm Crosby is fighting hard to keep his job at Sunderland , even though the directors are searching for a replacement . |
| 16 | SUNDERLAND boss Malcolm Crosby is preparing a bid for Yugoslav international Drago Brnovic . |
| 17 | SUNDERLAND manager Malcolm Crosby is lining up a late assault on the promotion play-off places in the New Year . |
| 18 | Gary Crosby is dropped to accomodate Chettle , Tobbi Orlygsson moves to the right-wing , while Kingsley Black makes way for Woan . |
| 19 | Sunderland boss Malcolm Crosby is trailing Aberdeen 's £300,000-rated midfielder , Paul Mason . |
| 20 | CISCO is seeking division of the Official List into segments with categories of companies set up according to their market capitalisation . |
| 21 | Stukeley 's claim for All Saints ' College at Wothorpe is based on Speed 's early seventeenth-century map , and is just a misreading of an entry in Valor Ecclesiasticus , Henry VIII 's survey of the value of ecclesiastical property . |
| 22 | Addamax is porting ATX , its secure X-Windows subsystem , to the TekXpress family of X-terminals to create a line for B1 and networked compartmented mode workstation ( CMW ) environments . |
| 23 | What Ryedale is seeking is not a figure for its sector within the Greater York area , and the same with the other districts , but rather a figure for the Greater York area as a whole , and then a figure for the remainder of those parts of the districts outside the Greater York area , so you do n't get a situation with my colleagues on the left where you are in the structure plan dictating the number of houses that should be allocated in , for example , two parishes . |
| 24 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 25 | In this region the Kupferschiefer is underlain by a thick series ( several hundred to one thousand meters ) of Rotliegendes ( Lower Permian ) , often represented by volcanic rocks . |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 27 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 28 | Earl Spencer is to close Althorp House to the public during the week to give his family more privacy . |
| 29 | Although there are cultural explanations for the way Marks & Spencer is trying to run Brooks Brothers , most of the new practices transcend national boundaries . |
| 30 | In the House of Commons sixty MPs tabled a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is treated by the media ’ , and ‘ calling on those responsible to have more concern for individual privacy ’ . |