Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words . |
| 2 | He is worried , however , that the team which won the East Championship so well could be broken up if Chelmsford insist on retaining all their players for friendly matches . |
| 3 | Throughout the tournament the popular Murray admitted to feeling enormous tension as he battled to stay ahead of a top-class field , which included eight members of the European Ryder Cup team . |
| 4 | Both Mitchum and Reed refrain from getting drunk on film sets . |
| 5 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 6 | Hence the PFA concentrated on making small gains . |
| 7 | With Richard Dunwoody claimed for Gambling Royal , Graham McCourt is poised to step in for the ride on Grand National winner Party Politics . |
| 8 | Balliol retaliated by banishing all English property owners and any others he or his advisers suspected of being pro-English . |
| 9 | It was true that Afghanistan refrained from assuming open multilateral military commitments but the character and scale of Soviet-Afghan bilateral military relations could not be ignored in this context . |
| 10 | Edward responded by barring any such appeal to the pope , by issuing a proclamation calculated to cajole the clergy and enlist the support of the laity , and by imposing a tax on the clergy : |
| 11 | Holdaway ( 1977 ) documented the difficulties police managers in Hilton had in overcoming wellaccepted practices in order to introduce more professional police practice in the form of unit beat policing . |
| 12 | S Which Frank Sinatra song did Nick Faldo sing after winning this year 's Open ? |
| 13 | Donna wan na hear any more of these stupid jokes ! ! ! |
| 14 | The charity 's director David Bryer says by cutting Third World aid to help reduce public spending , the Government would be cutting off it 's nose to spite it 's face . |
| 15 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 16 | These are ( 1 ) anti-imperialism ( in effect , an anti-US stance ) : increasingly , as Washington insists on defining indigenous anti-US sentiment within the region in terms of ‘ Communist subversion ’ , Marxism comes to be regarded as the natural channel for such feelings ; ( 2 ) an acceptance of the Marxist premise of ‘ the exploitation of man by man ’ ; and ( 3 ) a refusal to accept the existing economic order , or to be bound by conventional economic remedies for Latin America 's development problems ( either of the orthodox ‘ monetarist ’ variety which the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is trying to introduce into most major Latin American countries , or of the moderate reform-and-investment strategies pursued by Christian Democratic groups , for example in Chile from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 17 | Those are the figures that the NFU found on making simple inquiries . |
| 18 | Regarding the prediscovery sightings of Neptune , Lalande 's in 1795 is said too differ from ephemeris predictions by seven or more arcseconds , but Standish shows by extrapolating two ephemerides backwards that the predictions are uncertain by at least several arcseconds ; combined with the scatter in Lalande 's observations this makes the discrepancy rather dubious . |
| 19 | Howards began by manufacturing fine chemicals , especially the antimalarial drug quinine and its derivatives , for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 20 | One suburban Anglican church in Surrey , England discovered on doing this exercise that they had to gain on average thirty-four new members each year just to stay where they were in terms of membership , such was the high level of mobility in their community . |
| 21 | Ukraine insisted on retaining joint command of CIS strategic forces . |
| 22 | Two leading State Department officials took part in a radio broadcast on Korea aimed at engendering public debate before a large appropriation for Korea was included in the War Department 's next vote . |
| 23 | AS former US Congressman Bruce Morrison today continued his trek round Ireland talking to leading political figures , the question being asked by many is ‘ Bruce who ? ’ . |
| 24 | Whether Washington was wise to use such coercive tactics is uncertain , because of the difficulties Brazil faces in adjusting other policies . |
| 25 | Regular keeper Keith Mouncher returns after missing last week 's home defeat by Blyth , but Keith Muckle , Darren Brewis and Barrie Wilson are all ruled out . |
| 26 | If Maurice succeeded in calling one of those in … ’ |
| 27 | The CEGB succeeded in scoring two more own goals . |
| 28 | Cardinal Cullen succeeded in getting three of the four religious provinces of Ireland to deny the sacraments to the Fenians , and only Archbishop McHale of the province of Tuam failed to toe the line . |
| 29 | Coventry replied by offering four tickets for the corresponding fixture next season . |
| 30 | It is part of the risk that the SDA takes in evaluating this type of equity , and it goes on all the time . |