Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DUTCH striker Marco van Basten may never fully recover from injury to play soccer again according to a doctor who operated on the star 's injured right ankle . |
| 2 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 3 | PAKISTAN should today simply be hailed the world 's best cricket team . |
| 4 | Neither Sal nor Kitty would ever need one of those — although Posh Porky might soon enough , the way she was going . |
| 5 | Sometimes the public distancing of Romania from its Warsaw Pact allies , especially Big Brother in Moscow , was done in a quite insulting fashion : Ceauşescu could even implicitly put the Kremlin in the same category as the White House : ‘ The small and medium-sized states refuse to play the role of pawn in the service of the interests of big imperialist powers any longer . ’ |
| 6 | They were clumsy , hesitant lies , yet Simon had believed them : it did not occur to him that someone as stupid as Marie could ever successfully deceive him . |
| 7 | The PLO could no longer remain out of the war . |
| 8 | And suddenly Morse knew where the body had been launched into the river and into eternity ; knew , too , that if Lucy Downes could so quickly arouse the rather sluggish libido of a Lewis , then it was hardly difficult to guess her effect upon the lively carnality of a Kemp . |
| 9 | It is , moreover , difficult to see how Rifat Efendi could so badly misread Mecdi , whom he virtually copies . |
| 10 | You get the impression that Roberts could quite happily slag off most of his fellow ufologists in this way . |
| 11 | Had Immelmann 's death not intervened , the appearance of Boelcke 's ‘ Flying Circus ’ at Verdun would almost certainly have spelled disaster for the individualist French flyers . |
| 12 | The day after the elections , Enoch Powell , the Official Unionist MP for South Down , put the formal touch to the end of the coalition by announcing to the Speaker of the House of Commons that Dr Paisley would no longer be welcome in the office used by the Official Unionist members . |
| 13 | However , what such an analysis fails to take into account is that the evidence of wrong-doing that became so public in the United States would almost certainly have never surfaced in the United Kingdom , given the laws of libel and the willingness of the British people to tolerate secrecy in government . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , continuing discontent with the ruling party led commentators to predict that , despite the party 's current gains , the LDP would almost certainly lose seats at the forthcoming election . |
| 15 | Balliol would undoubtedly soon learn of their presence , however heedfully they hid . |
| 16 | Neighbours : The Scott and Charlene Love Story , in which Kylie would once more be seen in oilstained overalls as the tomboy mechanic from Ramsay Street , would damage her new sophisticated image , they claimed . |
| 17 | She was too distressed herself to explain that that particular expression did not fall upon her ears with any degree of shock , and wondered quickly if she and Johnny would ever really be able to communicate properly . |
| 18 | During the afternoon , Mr. Penny would somewhat unsteadily make his way to the trap , get in , flop down and lightly pick up the reins ; the pony knowing what had to be done would start off , quickly breaking into a spanking trot as he made his way along Milford Street . |
| 19 | Botha will almost certainly captain South Africa rather than Jannie Breedt , though Breedt may well stay as No 8 . |
| 20 | ‘ Bella will almost certainly get blown to smithereens while she 's in bed with a high-ranking Army Officer , no doubt . |
| 21 | ‘ Pakistan can no longer afford to continue this British romantic tradition of the tribal areas . |
| 22 | Susceptible to malaria , and having recently had open-heart surgery , Vanne can no longer go out to Africa ; but when Jane visits the UK she stays with her mother in Bournemouth . |
| 23 | Such Soviet and DRA claims that Afghanistan can meaningfully still be described as non-aligned have been ridiculed by Western statesmen . |
| 24 | Michael Friend can no longer command respect and should be dismissed from his £30,000 chief executive post , according to Tories at Gosport , Hants . |
| 25 | It did n't seem right that Ray Doyle might never again come staggering out of the untidy bedroom , curly hair looking a totally dishevelled mess , eyes bleary , to find Bodie sprawled on the settee , bright and cheery and grinning . |
| 26 | Maggie might no longer belong , to anything or anyone , if she did not belong to Fenna . |
| 27 | Ollie could just about manage on the violin . |
| 28 | The government decision that workers at G.C.H.O. could no longer belong to national trade unions which was reached without any such prior consultation was prima facie in breach of natural justice . |
| 29 | War with England ( 1796–1802 ) was a sheer disaster , revealing all the inherent weaknesses of Spain 's position in the American market ; American ports were opened to neutrals when it became evident that Spain could no longer supply her colonies . |
| 30 | The cheering swelled as they passed the stands , and as they turned down the hill for the second circuit Taaffe could no longer restrain Arkle , who took up the running . |