Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [be] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANGRY Pakistan fans are taking English umpires for a ride . |
| 2 | The Federation of Small Businesses is asking local authorities to use the discretion available to them to offer rates relief to businesses found to be suffering hardship . |
| 3 | Cabernet Sauvignon grapes are grown 1,000 feet up in King Valley , Victoria . |
| 4 | United States climatologists are discussing preliminary evidence that sulphur dioxide — a major pollutant and contributor to acid rain — may be inducing localised cooling effects that are countering the warming influences of greenhouse gases . |
| 5 | GRAHAM TAYLOR 'S England plans were hit last night by an injury scare to top scorer David Platt , who is struggling to be fully fit for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Turkey . |
| 6 | Multi-million pound Blackburn Rovers are trailing this side modestly built by Fred for Shrewsbury it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers one . |
| 7 | In total , 500 NHS patients are to have private operations . |
| 8 | In 1891–92 two England sides were undertaking simultaneous series . |
| 9 | To pursue the question put by the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) , the Secretary of State will be aware that the long lead orders for the four Trident submarines were placed some time ago and that construction is quite well advanced . |
| 10 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | So far as ants are concerned , a single pangolin can eat up to 73 million of them , or termites , in 1 year , while ant eaters on Barro Colorado Island attack termite and Azteca ant nests ; of arboreal nests , 91% of the termite ones and 37% of Azteca nests are attacked each year . |
| 12 | In response Pravda cited American press reports that the United States and its NATO allies were making active preparations towards ‘ creating a security pact in the Persian Gulf zone , prepared to cooperate with the West ’ . |
| 13 | The DoT was unable to give a figure for how much the repair work on the Midlands motorways is costing this year . |
| 14 | However students were finding that the normal demand for High Wycombe graduates is waning this year due to the economy . |
| 15 | LLOYD 'S broker PWS Holdings is buying 75 p.c. of insurance broker Burns-Crosson for £100,000 with the undertaking to subscribe another £50,000 for further shares on completion of the deal , and can take its shareholding to 85 p.c. by 1997 for up to a total cost of £500,000 . |
| 16 | Environment Minister Hans Alders is seeking similar agreements from the country 's main industrial sectors . |
| 17 | Cleveland and North Yorkshire councils are preparing major objections to the National Grid 's plan to build overhead power cables across parts of the area . |
| 18 | Cleveland and North Yorkshire councils are preparing major objections to the National Grid 's plan to build overhead power cables across parts of the area . |
| 19 | ‘ Until last October authorities were expecting this money to be ringfenced so did not consider this client group when they were consulting and drawing up their assessment models , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The UK officials were seeking specific information concerning past Libyan contacts with the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) and arms shipments to the IRA . |
| 21 | Several scientists questioned the hypothesis that the Vietnamese , Kampuchean and Pathet Lao governments are spraying deadly mycotoxins , produced by the fungus Fusarium and commonly called ‘ yellow rain ’ , on opposition groups like the Laotian Hmong . |
| 22 | Having thrown out communism , East Europeans are rejecting social democracy too . |
| 23 | THE Ulster Unionists were having urgent talks with the US Consulate in Belfast today before deciding whether to pull out of a meeting with prominent Irish-Americans . |
| 24 | Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months . |
| 25 | ULSTER teachers are taking new lessons after school hours — on stress . |
| 26 | TWO ULSTER men were convicted last week for possession and trying to smuggle drugs into the Republic . |
| 27 | BBC bosses were reeling last night over a claim by The Sun that one of its employees was responsible for the leak . |
| 28 | Britannia Airways is cutting 560 jobs and buying new aircraft worth £250m in order to make its fleet operations more efficient . |
| 29 | Cleveland Police are hunting two youths who grabbed a cash bag containing hundreds of pounds from a woman on her way to a Middlesbrough bank . |
| 30 | Russian scientists are expressing concern that the Black and Azov seas are facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution and oil spills . |