Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [adj] [to-vb] [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 | ‘ Roy is unlikely to spring any surprises , ’ she said . |
| 7 | At the moment Jacques Chirac 's RPR is favourite to win most seats and former finance minister Balladur is likely to become prime minister . |
| 8 | The new climate in Xianjiang Province in northwest China is likely to turn large areas of steppe into desert . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Editor Mike Magee is keen to supply afflicted users with copies of Clearaid . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Britain is due to have four submarines armed with the new Tridents but has been worried that recent votes in the Senate to cut funding for production of the missile could delay delivery of the weapons , scheduled to start next year , to the Royal Navy . |
| 14 | Wright will have a key role in Vilnius tomorrow as Northern Ireland begin what has been disparagingly described as the ‘ battle of the also-Manager Billy Bingham is unlikely to make many changes from the team which lost 3–1 in Spain last month ; Iain Dowie should come in to replace the injured Philip Gray . |
| 15 | Thompson is concerned to place plebeian recreations into a popular mentalité which remained active through the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | Thus , Moscovici is able to draw universal implications about social psychological functioning . |
| 17 | Some French cheeses , German sausages and Italian hams , for example , fall into the same category , and can be found in shops and supermarkets , as John Gummer is wont to say these days , ‘ from Scotland to Sicily . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | THE latest statistics show that a man retiring in Edinburgh is likely to live four years longer than his counterpart in Glasgow , it was stated yesterday . |
| 20 | Charlton is unlikely to make any alterations to his squad until the weekend before the game , but Newcastle United skipper Liam O'Brien and veteran Blackburn defender Kevin Moran must now come into the reckoning . |
| 21 | If in the year 2000 the EC is able to pass these tests as well as it does today , but on the altogether higher plane which 1992 implies , the rest of Europe , like the rest of the world , will have cause to be grateful . |