Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you Woody is getting on now as er |
| 2 | Nor those dreadful factory hooters , Mr Colclough 's from the foundry , Mr Lord 's answering it , her husband 's from the top of the hill , Ben Braithwaite 's intruding as stridently as his mother 's purple taffeta dresses from the other side of town , each one of them blasting out its five minute warning as to the pains and penalties of being late . |
| 3 | According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders , Rover is doing slightly better than many competitors . |
| 4 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 5 | A similar effect is seen with the sequence ( AT ) 15 GG(AT) 6 ( Figure 2f ) in which the first ApT site on the 5'-side of the central GG is cut less well than most of the other ApT sites . |
| 6 | SOUTH AFRICA is calling up more than 20,000 mainly white army reservists to stamp out violence threatening its transition to democracy and to protect civilians from marauding gunmen . |
| 7 | Jo 's talking even faster than usual , shows she 's still feeling a bit down . |
| 8 | For most companies , the practice in the UK is to report much sooner than the publication period permits . |
| 9 | Jesus is seen not only as Lord of the world , but also as Lord of all human-relationships . |
| 10 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 11 | While its former parent , Tandy Corp , announces plans to open a second SuperCenter computer store in Sweden ( CI No 2,167 ) , InterTan Inc , the company that owns the Tandy name outside the US is pulling back sharply after losses became unsustainable . |
| 12 | The cabling of Britain is to begin as soon as possible , so that at least major conurbations will be hooked up by 1986 , when the BBC starts direct broadcasting by satellite ( DBS ) . |
| 13 | And one other match taking place this evening is the preliminary round F A Cup replay at Railway Cuttings between Banbury United and Solihull Borough , and if you 're thinking of popping along , the message from Banbury is to get there early as another bumper gate is expected . |
| 14 | At the moment Ian is playing as well as he has ever played in my time at Carrow Road . ’ |
| 15 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 16 | Several companies open their doors to the public , but Grants ' Glenfiddich Distillery at Dufftown is singled out here because of its Scotch Whisky Museum . |
| 17 | Gloucestershire is faring much better than many other parts of England . |
| 18 | The MP added : ‘ I 'm calling on Saville 's to withdraw as quickly as possible from the deal and allow the local authorities to acquire the land . |