Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lever is playing down the move . |
| 2 | NEC IS starting up the world 's first production line for 16 megabit chips in its Sagamihara factory , reports Ken Takahashi of Newsbytes . |
| 3 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 4 | Matthew is extending here the theme first highlighted in his account of the calming of the storm . |
| 5 | But the joke was most unfair , for the Flynn system enabled Stevenson 's to lay out the line and start preparing the rail bed from a number of focal points along its path without waiting for survey engineers . |
| 6 | Once belief in Satan is overthrown then the church has to see its role not in conquering the ‘ Devil and all his works ’ but in overcoming ignorance , disease , superstition and injustice . |
| 7 | Someone 's got to have hope and want to change something — because the UK 's going down the pan . |
| 8 | In the UK , Cambridge neighbours IXI Ltd and Uniplam Ltd are exchanging courses and distribution activities : Unipalm is to take over the running and management of IXI 's 20 Motif training courses whilst IXI takes on Unipalm 's Motif distribution business . |
| 9 | Rugby League has always bred fine sportsmen and Garry Schofield is carrying on the tradition . |
| 10 | Cathy Gunn is going down the catwalk in cashmere and has selected Dawson International . |
| 11 | So now Ron 's taken on the role , with help … of sorts from grandaughter Yasmine . |
| 12 | Tommy 's picking up the gun from the living room floor . |
| 13 | The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could . |
| 14 | Confirmation that United Biscuits chairman Sir Robert Clarke is to take over the chair at Thames Water following the death of Sir Roy Watts was insufficient to boost Thames shares . |
| 15 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 16 | Mueller is taking over the plan , and Don is being transferred back to the States . |
| 17 | Euro MP Stephen Hughes is taking up the case of lorry driver Bob Elder , 47 , of South View , Tantobie , Stanley , who faces financial ruin because his truck has been impounded after he was involved in a fatal accident in Italy . |
| 18 | Perhaps for this reason , BT is playing down the entertainment side , instead stressing other applications such as video databases for such sectors as estate agents . |
| 19 | They let off frequent bursts of fire into the air to remind everyone that the only law in Somalia is administered down the barrel of a gun . |
| 20 | You know in a way South Wales is paying back the debt that we pa w w we paid them in their strike you know I mean and That 's communities helping communities and if really this management is talking about er the fact that they resent families not having to go without over Christmas and this sort of thing you know I mean where are their values you know it 's difficult to understand is n't it ? |
| 21 | ‘ Mariana 's coming down the meadow . |
| 22 | ANDREW CORNISH is to head up the Group risk management and insurance department reporting to Nigel Matthews . |
| 23 | FORD is to put up the price of its K-reg cars by 1.8 per cent later this month . |
| 24 | He 's in a photo of Mrs Nowak 's taken on the day her husband went back to Poland . |