Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The funding is on commercial terms under a Water Act that says Thames is entitled to make reasonable returns on capital . |
| 3 | What does emerge from it is that Norris 's way of reading Derrida is likely to make considerable demands on the reader . |
| 4 | AirUK 's Newcastle services has started , Finnair is due to start twice-weekly flights to Helsinki and commuter airline Westair is flying to Blackpool . |
| 5 | Buckland is wrong to dismiss technical details . |
| 6 | The new climate in Xianjiang Province in northwest China is likely to turn large areas of steppe into desert . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Editor Mike Magee is keen to supply afflicted users with copies of Clearaid . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thompson is concerned to place plebeian recreations into a popular mentalité which remained active through the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | Thus , Moscovici is able to draw universal implications about social psychological functioning . |
| 12 | Mehta 's idea for a new Afghan-Soviet treaty comparable to the Finnish-Soviet treaty ( presumably meaning the 1948 treaty ) which eventually encouraged the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Porkkala is unlikely to impress Soviet officials since the USSR has already signed a bilateral security-oriented treaty with Afghanistan in the form of the 1978 Treaty of Friendship , Good-Neighbourliness and Cooperation . |