Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After passing each other silently in their analyst 's waiting room for years , Deirdre and Scooper — weird and immature , respectively — get together , though the man-hungry Deirdre is disappointed to learn that Scooper plans , that evening , to run off with his long-time , married mistress : ‘ She is so healthy ! |
| 2 | And Laughton is keen to add 30-year-old Davies to his squad ahead of the January 11 Silk Cut Challenge Cup deadline . |
| 3 | The fate of Kuwait is likely to have more influence over the answers than anything else . |
| 4 | DENI is prepared to give financial support to teachers wishing to undertake part-time award-bearing in-service courses , subject to certain conditions . |
| 5 | Lord Sterling is keen to maintain strong links with China and establish a strategic alliance with a major user of the terminal as P&O embarks upon expansion in the region . |
| 6 | Jane is unlikely to earn much sympathy by virtue of the attention given to the environment which produced her dabbling in eventfulness and her poor kiss , and yet the two environments have more in common than would once have been thought possible . |
| 7 | Ellie is due to foal any day and naturally Margaret is on tenderhooks . |
| 8 | SLOSH is able to estimate still water surge by grid cell for various hurricane intensities , angles of approach to the shoreline , forward movement speeds and landfall locations . |
| 9 | Whether they are aboard here or on Santorini it will be all one to them when they join us in what Lieutenant Denholm is pleased to call vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 10 | For Rover is busy introducing young people to engineering . |
| 11 | The funding is on commercial terms under a Water Act that says Thames is entitled to make reasonable returns on capital . |
| 12 | What does emerge from it is that Norris 's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader . |
| 13 | English footballers are not usually renowned for such artistic pursuits but Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery : ‘ I do n't like the word intelligent , we do n't do things because we 're trying to appear intelligent , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Prince M.C. Subhadradis Diskul , Director of the seameo Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts , Bangkok , said Thailand is willing to return stolen property only when it can be fully documented with photographs which is rarely possible after the damages inflicted by the Khmer Rouge . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Richard Branson 's Virgin Atlantic is likely to announce next week that it will be acquiring four of the European Airbus A340 aircraft , whose wings are built by British Aerospace . |
| 16 | AirUK 's Newcastle services has started , Finnair is due to start twice-weekly flights to Helsinki and commuter airline Westair is flying to Blackpool . |
| 17 | Buckland is wrong to dismiss technical details . |
| 18 | ‘ Roy is unlikely to spring any surprises , ’ she said . |
| 19 | On 8 August he and Nkrumah put their signatures to a document intended to seal their partnership : they would form a Federal Union and ‘ any state or territory in Africa is free to join this Union ’ . |
| 20 | At the moment Jacques Chirac 's RPR is favourite to win most seats and former finance minister Balladur is likely to become prime minister . |
| 21 | MediaStar managing director Bob Offen is likely to assume administrative control over the two self-contained media teams , with HCK 's ‘ director , media ’ Mark Taylor leading the self-contained HCK operation . |
| 22 | NORMAN Lamont is likely to satisfy few people when he unveils his Budget today . |
| 23 | The new climate in Xianjiang Province in northwest China is likely to turn large areas of steppe into desert . |
| 24 | Van Laue is willing to acknowledge progressive development listed by an united opposition , economic expansion , and advance in education , and the improved peasant status . |
| 25 | PageMaker is supposed to have this capability in Version 3.0 , due to be released at the end of April . |
| 26 | In a few months Michael Portillo is likely to announce initial plans to distinguish ‘ essential costs ’ and ‘ avoidable spending ’ in four departments — Health , Education , the Home Office , and Social Security — which account for £110 billion of public spending . |
| 27 | Siemens is keen to add more logic devices to its semiconductor line , and Hewlett has few licensees fabricating Precision Architecture — and several US chipmakers fabricate more than one RISC family . |
| 28 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 29 | Editor Mike Magee is keen to supply afflicted users with copies of Clearaid . |
| 30 | Lawrence is desperate to get injured players like skipper Alan Kernaghan back into action and threatens to swing the axe for Sunday 's FA Cup clash with Chelsea . |