Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 2 | I think I understand a little better what Hockney is getting at with his ‘ reverse perspective ’ , though that seems a perverse way of describing ( I think ) an immersion in his subject matter . |
| 3 | All Ruritania is waiting for him in Strelsau and Black Michael with half the army , too . |
| 4 | Midland shares were the most actively traded on the stock market and fell 7 to 365p on announcement of the all-paper terms compared with the 400p which Lloyds is believed to be prepared to pay . |
| 5 | Mr Stringer , 48 , began his managerial apprenticeship at Carrow Road five years ago in similar circumstances to those Mr Crosby is facing at Roker Park . |
| 6 | Crosby is fighting for his job after the 5–2 defeat at Peterborough . |
| 7 | Stukeley 's claim for All Saints ' College at Wothorpe is based on Speed 's early seventeenth-century map , and is just a misreading of an entry in Valor Ecclesiasticus , Henry VIII 's survey of the value of ecclesiastical property . |
| 8 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 9 | In this region the Kupferschiefer is underlain by a thick series ( several hundred to one thousand meters ) of Rotliegendes ( Lower Permian ) , often represented by volcanic rocks . |
| 10 | It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification . |
| 11 | Bull sources nevertheless told Reuter some kind of partnership was being sought for Zenith.Bull is included on the list of state-controlled companies France wants to privatise . |
| 12 | In the House of Commons sixty MPs tabled a motion ‘ deploring the manner in which Lady Diana Spencer is treated by the media ’ , and ‘ calling on those responsible to have more concern for individual privacy ’ . |
| 13 | MARKS & SPENCER is bursting into bold colour this spring with pottery hand painted in Portugal . |
| 14 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Spencer is coming to England for a tour in May to promote two earlier books , November of the Heart ( hardback ) and the paperback of Bygones . |
| 16 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 17 | At some point in 1975 , when he was seventy-eight and beginning to feel weary , Pope Paul VI made the following note : The whole of Giovanni Battista Montini is contained in these lines . |
| 18 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |
| 19 | The Inter-Andean Depression of Ecuador is controlled by two terrane boundaries ( sutures ) , the Cainozoic reactivation of which provided channelways for the double chain of volcanic cordilleras , which form a caldera-graben . |
| 20 | Long-awaited multiprocessing — as distinct from parallel processing — RS/6000s , on which Compagnie des Machines Bull SA is collaborating with IBM , are due volume at the beginning of 1994 , if you listen to Big Blue . |
| 21 | Aside from IBM and Apple , Groupe Bull SA is working with IBM on multi-processing , and Thomson-CSF SA subsidiary CETIA SA , are planning to launch PowerPC systems . |
| 22 | The DoH is committed to monitoring the new arrangements until July , but the findings will not be released until then . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , insider sources suggest that Hazelwood is meeting with long-time friend Bob Dylan , to discuss the possibility of Dylan also contributing to the new Mary Chain LP . |
| 24 | Still searching for his other 3 assailants , Paul Lanighan is disgusted by the sentence . |
| 25 | Before Hector is blinded by a lust for glory , he say to Troilus : |
| 26 | They are stories situated in different countries — Villette is set in France , and was written in the 19th century , while ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is set in America , and was written in this century . |
| 27 | But Allerce is banned for import by a european law called Cites which aims to protect endangered species . |
| 28 | The OHE is funded by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry , and is housed in the association 's premises in Regent Street . |
| 29 | Neil is rootin' for a job |
| 30 | MIDDLESBROUGH Reserves should have their best crowd of the season if the Central League game with Mansfield is rearranged for next Thursday night striker Bernie Slaven and midfield player Willie Falconer are in line for comebacks . |