Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | George and Marie clearly need to do some manpower planning , starting with themselves : Marie could clearly do with a bit of training in delegation , and George might benefit from a course in marketing . |
| 2 | It was not paralleled by any externally influenced recomposition of the political forces in Finland , and in the Afghan case it is precisely the issue of the internal composition of the Afghan regime which will determine whether Afghanistan will eventually embark on a more truly non-aligned path . |
| 3 | Dierdriu said , ‘ You know the ancient curse laid on Tara at the beginning of her history ? ’ and looked at him and waited , and Fergus said , half to himself , ‘ If Tara should ever belong to a pure-bred Human , then it will fall into ruin , and the Bright Palace will be no more … ’ ’ ‘ ‘ … and all Ireland will seethe with evil , and the skies will darken , and the rivers will run with blood . ’ |
| 4 | That in itself did not necessarily matter ; experience had shown that Scotland could successfully cope with a series of minorities . |
| 5 | Despite the Copernican transformation , Kepler could still argue for a unique earth . |
| 6 | The plants at Napo would then serve as a ‘ gene bank ’ from which to send material to breeders anywhere in the world . |
| 7 | Trainer John Spearing will now bid for a quick double with Lawnswood Junior who runs again in the Forte Ladies Stakes Handicap Final at Doncaster on Saturday where he will be ridden by Spearing 's daughter Teresa . |
| 8 | Overburdened by commitments elsewhere , Unesco can only act as a clearing house for independently sponsored initiatives . |
| 9 | So Ronny might still go for a trial at Leeds — he is no Neil Ruddock type ; more of playing defender . |
| 10 | But Allen insisted that the record of the NCF could hardly stand as a model for spreading the pacifist word in years to come . |
| 11 | Miss Cooper will also feature in a major advertising campaign for the firm . |
| 12 | Software manufacturers fear that squeaky-clean Singapore may now emerge as a new centre for the pirates . |
| 13 | China could only wait for a more favourable opportunity to recover her rights . |
| 14 | But the people of Princes Risborough can now point to a permanent reminder of a man they have never forgotten . |
| 15 | ‘ We 're fully booked up at the Hospitality Unit , ’ said Sir Bryan , ‘ but Mrs. Mackintosh can easily lay on a cold lunch for them here . |
| 16 | Egypt would also suffer from a reduction in its earnings from tourism , which had totalled $2,000 million the previous year , and would earn some $200 million less from Suez Canal traffic , which had fallen off following the trade sanctions against Iraq . |
| 17 | Yet sometimes he feels nostalgic for the Californian variety , just as an honest man dining in the Tour d'Argent can decently long for a cheeseburger . |
| 18 | The commission in Brussels has vetoed the Strasbourg parliament 's line : Brussels knows that Britain and West Germany would never agree to a total ban . |
| 19 | There will be 40 happy faces when the School ends tomorrow but there will also be a lot of tears and Whelan may even return for a seventh time . |
| 20 | The contingent is almost the smallest possible force Britain could meaningfully provide to a major UN force , but Mr Rifkind said it was nevertheless an important contribution . |
| 21 | A shopkeeper with a shop in Bristol Central and a home in Bristol West would now qualify for a vote in both constituencies ; under the new system , there were few ways to qualify for plural votes , but it was much easier actually to qualify , and so tens of thousands of new plural votes were created , overwhelmingly Unionist . |
| 22 | The greatest benefit of the deal for BA comprises the sharing of flight codes which means that transatlantic passengers booking on to a USAir flight in the US would automatically transfer to a BA flight for the Atlantic crossing . |
| 23 | The major benefit of the deal for BA was described yesterday as the sharing of flight codes which meant that transatlantic passengers booking on to a USAir flight in the US would automatically transfer to a BA flight for the Atlantic crossing . |
| 24 | The US will probably benefit from a doubling of middle-aged people aged 45 to 54 over the next 20 years because of the baby boom of the late 1950s . |
| 25 | We have , of course , stressed to our friends in the Baltic states that their membership of the CSCE — Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe — process and their aspirations to join the Council of Europe will naturally depend to a great extent upon their ability to meet international standards in such matters . |
| 26 | No small town in Britain can certainly qualify as a centre for the administration of an imperial estate , although a case might be made for including Godmanchester and Water Newton . |
| 27 | It is likely that the 77,000 acre estate 's American owner John Kluge will now look for a private buyer , especially as the lodge itself , devastated last year by fire , has almost been renovated . |
| 28 | Anything Disney will probably do down a treat , like Lady Amd The Tramp , Sleeping Beauty or something . |
| 29 | The woes of Fiat , Ferruzzi and Fininvest will inevitably lead to a restructuring of Italian family capitalism . |
| 30 | America can already call on a vast network of information on Northern Ireland affairs , provided by its consular service here and embassies in London and Dublin . |