Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a big opportunity for our young players to play regularly in the first eleven . |
| 2 | Now , in the last decade of the century , we have an opportunity through our European institutions to create a wider prosperity and a more lasting peace for all the peoples and all the countries of Europe . |
| 3 | As such preliminary results seem to indicate that these approaches are safer and quieter than unreconstructed streets , as well as being more widely applicable than the Woonerf-style rebuilding which must be restricted to lightly trafficked streets , the case for their continued application seems to be a strong one . |
| 4 | Tory councillors disagree and continue to press the case for their alternative plan to make the town 's Northgate traffic-free . |
| 5 | The problem was exacerbated by the decision in 1950 to leave prisons as primarily the province of the states , which gives the central government something of an excuse for its half-hearted approach to reform . |
| 6 | Like spinning tops we dash from from one emergency to another , always citing them as an excuse for our unfailing refusal to face up to the global urgency staring at us |
| 7 | But Tommaso Talvi was the type to jaw about whatever new scheme had taken his fancy and then jeopardise everybody around with his big boasting empty talk . |
| 8 | ‘ The rich blackbird through his golden bill utters wild music . ’ |
| 9 | JWP Inc , the Rye Brook , New York electrical and plumbing services conglomerate that bought struggling Businessland Inc and almost immediately regretted it , has decided that it has had enough of computers altogether and on Friday announced that it will sell its information services business ; it has retained Lazard Freres & Co as its financial advisor to attempt to find a buyer ; the unit now provides personal computer-related hardware , software and integrated services primarily to large corporate and institutional customers , has some 3,000 staff and had 1992 revenues of $1,700m . |
| 10 | For they have the capacity to change — for example , Judd 's enthusiasm for their treasure-hunting plan turns to disillusion as he watches greed enhance Brett 's obstinacy and rouse passive Stringy to obstructive malice . |
| 11 | If I get the result I wanted there is consolidation rather than extension of my committee skills , but if I do not get the result I wanted then I have learned something and I form a new hypothesis about my next interjection strengthened by this new learning . |
| 12 | Coin Street Community Builders [ CSCB ] , owner/developers of the site , are strugging to find continued financial support for their ambitious scheme to convert it into a complex of 7O craft workshops , a riverside food court , and flats to be let by a housing co-operative . |
| 13 | The decision about which other teachers to select for appointment also rests with the governing body , but this function may be delegated to one or more governors , the headteacher , or one or more governors and the headteacher acting together . |
| 14 | They were a pragmatic , brave , distrustful people who learned that responsibility for their continued existence lay exclusively in their own hands , that their ultimate fate depended solely upon their own determination and resources . |
| 15 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 16 | But some still want to know where all the money for his cancelled concert ended up . |
| 17 | This instinctive anti-Americanism was revealed most clearly during the Gulf War , in which the pretence that the Basic Law prevented them from sending troops was a mere figleaf for their initial failure to offer any political support to the American-led campaign ( Genscher remained silent for a week after the fighting began , although he and Kohl tried to make amends later ) and for their inexcusable prevarication about supporting Turkey in the event of an attack by Iraq . |
| 18 | Her worry about his probable infidelity had led her to attack him in an irresponsibly dangerous manner . |
| 19 | And since the vast majority of children in the UK are lucky enough to eat a balanced diet , there 's no worry about your own child falling short on intelligence . |
| 20 | THE Hillsborough club are still without an overall backer for their International Sunflower meeting at Kirkistown on October 9 . |
| 21 | But with the defeat of chartism and a period of stabilisation during which skilled labour consolidated its privileged economic position , the ideology of skilled workers unified increasingly around a discourse of possessive individualism , self help and respectability inscribed within extant relations of production . |
| 22 | This procedure , known as Data Fusion , is set to provide the direct marketer with the tools to achieve maximum result for his/her direct marketing spend . |
| 23 | The result for our three daughters has been French and Italian exchanges , Eurorailing , and country holidays in England or Ireland . |
| 24 | There is , at present , too wide a gap between our two perspectives to make agreement along the lines you very constructively suggest , likely . |
| 25 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 26 | The outbreak of fighting followed several days of heightening tension during which both sides erected road blocks and checkpoints . |
| 27 | Mr Morris has been an MP since 1974 and served his apprenticeship for his new job chairing the standing committees of the House where MPs subject Government bills to detailed scrutiny . |
| 28 | Mr Morris has been an MP since 1974 and served his apprenticeship for his new job chairing the standing committees of the House where MPs subject Government bills to detailed scrutiny . |
| 29 | After our first Report the tabloid journalists enjoyed themselves by writing provocative articles about how I was the professor for whom correct English did not matter . |
| 30 | Its weakness : Articles such as Melissa Benn 's rambling , sentimental piece about her 10 years living in Kilburn . |