Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawson may win in the end . |
| 2 | Lucky Jim may survive in the memory as a series of farcical moments , but it is also a tightly plotted novel ; The Green Man ( 1969 ) , a nightmarish ghost-story , has one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction . |
| 3 | He knew what it meant that Marcus should stay in the room whilst Bill managed for three consecutive hours to make a series of acceptably banal factual observations . |
| 4 | Praxsys could deliver in the fourth quarter : early 1993 is more likely . |
| 5 | Rabuka had by June 2 secured an understanding with the FLP leader Mahendra Chaudry according to which the FLP would participate in the new legislature . |
| 6 | The author makes no attempt to form a comprehensive view of the spiritual life , as Walter Hilton would attempt in The Ladder of Perfection . |
| 7 | So would be the One Thousand and One Nights ; and a later times stories such as She by R. Haggard , and Lost Horizons by Hilton would come in the same category . |
| 8 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 9 | Even in Rocky 37 , you know Rocky will win in the end ! |
| 10 | There were also reasons why tension between France and Germany might decline in the early eighties . |
| 11 | For one thing , absurd as the respect paid Lenin may seem in the West , his works in fact constitute a much looser strait-jacket than did Stalin 's Short Course : composed in the heat of political struggle and fierce polemics , Lenin 's works are far from unambiguous and he can be quoted in support of conflicting interpretations of many secondary issues . |
| 12 | Tenby may reappear in the Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown next month . |
| 13 | He urges new procedures to protect rights of way and suggests that Scotland should follow in the footsteps of Swedish law , giving the public a general right of access over all uncultivated , unfenced land , subject to the protection of residential privacy and ‘ reasonable management needs ’ . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , at Scone on the 5th February 1284 , Alexander made all the estates of Scotland bind themselves by oath to acknowledge the Maid of Norway as his heir , failing any children Alexander might have in the future . |
| 15 | Reynolds poser ATHLETICS : Officials of The Athletics Congress , the US governing body , said its executive committee would hold a teleconference to discuss whether banned 400 metres runner Butch Reynolds could compete in the US Olympic trials later this month . |
| 16 | Luch would pause in the corridor , her own doll baby clutched tight to her side . |
| 17 | It may be that the Protestants of Northern Ireland would acquiesce in the new kingly order . |
| 18 | At the Tehran conference in December 1943 , from which Chiang was excluded , Stalin confirmed that Russia would participate in the war against Japan three months after the European War had been won . |
| 19 | Input/output board manufacturer , Specialix Ltd , Byfleet , Surrey , says it has secured an agreement with IBM for its Transputer-based RIO multi-port I/O controller which IBM will use in the RS/6000 . |
| 20 | Those who are familiar with their Wordsworth will remember in the poem Michael , 1800 , the following lines : |
| 21 | His manager Ray Tracey says that Alan can move in the summer and Wilko is said to have agreed . |
| 22 | Then the LH can write in the words in his/her own script . |
| 23 | Quick air-reinforcement with infantry was one thing , but any serious fighting or prolonged operations would need far heavier loads and greater tonnages of ammunition and supplies than the RAF could lift in the required time scale . |
| 24 | He also said that he thought he and Strach could play in the same team . |
| 25 | The Trades Unions themselves were not necessarily pleased with ‘ co-determination ’ since the policy tended to reduce the Union 's role and make workers less militant , but co-determination showed that all classes in Germany could share in the benefits of the ‘ social market ’ , helped create good industrial relations and reduced the danger of deep class-based divisions between the CDU and SPD . |
| 26 | Wilson used to train in the mountains and emerge in the nick of time to perform his prodigious exploits . |
| 27 | This put paid to British hopes that Burma would stay in the Commonwealth as a Dominion owing allegiance to the Crown . |
| 28 | ‘ Matthew will come in the end , ’ said Miss Havisham firmly , ‘ when I die and am laid on that table . |
| 29 | Vicky will appear in the Cinderford Carnival next Saturday . |
| 30 | That means that teams in Orlando will play in the heat of 85–90F . |