Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 2 | Brian Reid slotted into second place on the opening lap , and like Moodie , never looked like losing it as Scotsman Ian Simpson came home . |
| 3 | BBC cricket correspondent Jon Agnew answered a Leicester SOS to step out of retirement and finished with remarkable figures of 1-31 in 12 overs . |
| 4 | Porto equalised from the subsequent free-kick when Brazilian striker Jose Carlos blasted the ball home . |
| 5 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 6 | Commenting on more ghastly figures ( see opposite ) Philips Electronics NV chairman Jan Timmer said the Dutch multinational 's performance in 1992 's fourth quarter , which is normally the strongest of the year as people buy electronic toys for Christmas , was very disappointing , and that no let-up in price erosion had so far been seen for 1993 . |
| 7 | Chamber chairman Jan Robb passed on the award to Roy Robins of the Alresford Society in recognition of the work carried out by Mr. Robins and the society in driving the scheme through to completion . |
| 8 | DFDS chairman Jan Erlund said in his annual report , currency devaluations and the recession will continue to hit the Scandinavian firm 's profits . |
| 9 | In addition MA students specialise in one of the leading world religions ( Christianity , Judaism , Islam , Hinduism , Buddhism , Chinese religions , Ancient Near Eastern religions ) , and normally in either a second major religious tradition or one of the chief approaches to the study of religion — sociology , psychology , anthropology , philosophy or fine art . |
| 10 | HARTLEPOOL chairman Garry Gibson rates winger Paul Dalton as First Division material . |
| 11 | Chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ As long as there is an outside chance , we will go for it . |
| 12 | Chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ We believe it is a realistic target . |
| 13 | Hartlepool chairman Garry Gibson said : ‘ I 'm glad he cost only a train fare and not a plane fare . |
| 14 | Chairman Garry Gibson said yesterday : ‘ Baker wants to leave for personal and not professional reasons . |
| 15 | Chairman Garry Gibson revealed that Murray had been in touch with a string of top clubs looking for pre-deadline newcomers . |
| 16 | Stuart Bagnell , assistant to chairman Garry Gibson declined to say how much the club got on winning promotion . |
| 17 | Taking part were the Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the five states ( with Deputy Premier Claudio Martelli standing in for Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti ) ; observers attended from the European Commission , the World Bank , the European Investment Bank and the new European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
| 18 | Aston Villa striker Dean Saunders outpaces Tottenham defender Gary Mabbutt in yesterday 's FA Premiership game at Villa Park . |
| 19 | Present Arsenal chairman Denis Hill-Wood says : ‘ If we asked him after a game what he thought of so-and-so 's performance he would say , ‘ Ask me on Monday . ’ |
| 20 | The handicapper has given both of them 10st , with last year 's winner Waterloo Boy heading the weights on 12st . |
| 21 | And Belgium international striker Marc Wilmots made the tie safe when he scored the only goal of the night after 62 minutes . |
| 22 | Pete introduces the records , rants about major record companies and provides a sarcastic , leering commentary of the night 's events , while co-presenter Michaela Strachan whips the crowd up with her boundless high spirits and comperes the competitions ’ Pass The Mic ’ ( an insult to Karaoke , where punters sing along to classic hits until the crowd can stand no more , and shout ’ Pass The Mic ! ’ ) , |
| 23 | As the above photograph suggests , American artist , photographer and video-maker William Wegman has rather a penchant for doggies of all shapes and sizes , and his work is positively littered with them . |
| 24 | In her heart Olga Stych hoped her mother would take the hint and depart . |
| 25 | As the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano observes : ‘ If what is written is read seriously and to some extent changes or nourishes the consciousness of the reader , a writer has justified his or her role in the process of change : with neither arrogance nor false humility , but with the recognition of being a small part of something vast ’ . |
| 26 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 27 | The following day , when Modigliani was due to begin painting his portrait , the writer Michel Georges-Michel paid a visit and was just about to leave when Bakst persuaded him to stay on . |
| 28 | Coach Rick Kotite faces a tough decision this week after stand-in quarter-back Jim McMahon guided Philadelphia Eagles to a 31–10 defeat of the Los Angeles Raiders . |
| 29 | This is to certify that Color Serjeant Nicholl served in the Grenadier Company of the King 's Regiment for twenty one years , and being myself one of the Officers of the Company during the greatest part of that period , I have consequently had an opportunity for closely observing his character and conduct , therefore it is but doing him that justice which his uniformly good behaviour merits , to state that I have never ( in his station in life ) met with a more truly steady or strictly honest a man . |
| 30 | He was followed by Hep Porter in Wagner Solution , Sitting Duck , and 1990 Gold race winner Jim Miller flew to third place in JM-2 No 14 Pushy Cat at 231.012mph . |