Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currently the JCS are studying on a global basis , the possibility of reducing missions , advisory groups and other special duty assignments . |
| 2 | CHELSEA are banking on the second oldest swinger in town to outwit Middlesbrough 's attack tonight . |
| 3 | Pels-Leusden in Berlin , and Wolfgang Werner 's Berlin and Bremen galleries and Edwin Vömel in Düsseldorf are collaborating on a large-scale project designed as a tribute to a largely undiscovered sculptor , Hermann Blumenthal ( 1905–42 ) . |
| 4 | Fortunately , Tumbleweed are redeemed by the remaining songs : ‘ Carousel ’ which all but abandons their rockist bluster in favour of a gentler , almost poppy sound ; ‘ Stoned ’ , a brilliantly dumb dope-tribute , and ‘ Millenium ’ , which is a little too heavy on masturbatory muso-isms , but manages to retain enough hyperactive charm to make it a success . |
| 5 | At a too typical parents ' evening Mr and Mrs Bloggs are directed to a folded card bearing Fred 's name resting on a slightly dog-eared pile of exercise books . |
| 6 | The adjacent Forests of Epping and Hainault are viewed as an intolerable nuisance … the farmers uniformly declare that the privilege of commonage is by no means equal to the one-tenth part of the losses they constantly sustain from the deer in breaking down their fences , trespassing upon their fields , and destroying their crops either ripe or green . |
| 7 | THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena . |
| 8 | CURRIE are embarking on a three-year campaign to raise the profile of their sevens tournament which again is to be sponsored by the Caledonian Brewing Company . |
| 9 | ‘ As everyone knows now , lads like Sean Gregan are playing in the first team and will be regulars in the future . ’ |
| 10 | However , there was certainly an imperialist aspect : as we have seen ( p. 41 ) one of Athens ' motives for western involvement was the abundant shipbuilding timber of southern Italy , and timbers from , precisely , Thurii are mentioned in an Attic inventory of the late fifth century ( IG i 3 386 1 . |
| 11 | James volunteered to stay on until the end of the season , and he remains in charge for tonight 's visit to Cross Keys , but Newport are opting for a complete change . |
| 12 | Microsoft , Intel , Novell and SynOptics are working on an open , common set of application programming interfaces that will enable management of individual micros on a network , providing a reference implementation and an open architecture . |
| 13 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |
| 14 | As well as studio kitchen sequences , the Rankins are filmed on a scenic culinary circuit of Ireland . |
| 15 | Ry Cooder and David Lindley are featured on the self-titled debut album from Hawaiian-based band The Pahinui Brothers ( on Private Music , through BMG ) . |
| 16 | Most of the vines have a slightly east to north-facing aspect , although those near Montbré are found on a gentle east-facing ridge . |
| 17 | During the dispute in 1984 , striking miners travelling in convoy on the motorway in Nottinghamshire were stopped within a few miles of four collieries . |
| 18 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 19 | But the Total Recall video is showing Schwarzenegger being squitted by the stamping press . |
| 20 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 21 | Not that The Dick Nixons were indulging in a new pastime . |
| 22 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 23 | Like , where were all the anti-war songs when the Falklands were turned into a mass graveyard for the young men of England and Argentina ? |
| 24 | I handed back the receiver and heard Ronnie being agitated on the other end . |
| 25 | PAKISTAN were locked in a fresh ball-doctoring row yesterday after their three-run Texaco Trophy win at Lord 's . |
| 26 | They also suspected him of fomenting violence to prevent Inkatha being marginalized as a political force . |
| 27 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 28 | Dacre is hardly likely to have welcomed the appointment of an ally of Henry Clifford , first Earl of Cumberland [ q.v. ] , who had supplanted him as warden in 1525–7 and was to do so again in 1534 , but relations between Dacre and Musgrave were worsened by a protracted dispute over rents in Bewcastledale . |
| 29 | The manuscript , originally compiled by Shah Jehan 's fawning court historian Inayat Khan , told the story of the apex of Mughal power , the golden age when most of India , all of Pakistan and great chunks of Afghanistan were ruled from the Red Fort in Delhi . |
| 30 | Chris Maxwell , 21 , and 22-year-old Roderick Arkell were swamped by the rolling white wall near the Val Thorens resort , near Grenoble . |