Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pugh may be nearer the truth . |
| 2 | The invasion of Afghanistan may be less an exception to this rule than many think . |
| 3 | Aston Villa could be just a day away from their first trophy of a new season , they play Arsenal tonight at Wembley in the fourteen Maceeter tournament with the prospect of a final tomorrow against Samdoria or Rael Sociadad live on television . |
| 4 | NORWEGIAN international Tore Dahlum could be just the first addition to Manchester United 's staff as manager Alex Ferguson seeks a goalscoring hero to revive their Premier League title prospects . |
| 5 | But does n't three guitarists in the space of three albums beg the question that Chadwick might be just a little hard on his sidemen ? |
| 6 | A beautiful diamond necklace which recently fetched £11,000 at Bonhams would be twice the price in an ordinary jewellers . |
| 7 | The first misunderstanding that I should like to clear up is the assertion that the Government have chosen King 's Cross as the terminal for the channel tunnel link and that Stratford will be merely a station along the route . |
| 8 | Anthony will be just the man for it , the Bishop said . |
| 9 | Staining can be either a one-step procedure ( " direct " — using labelled antibody or lee-tin ) or a two-step procedure [ " indirect " - using two interacting reagents ( generally antibodies ) where the first is unlabelled and the second labelled ] . |
| 10 | A YEAR in Provence may be just a dream — but two weeks is a distinct possibility . |
| 11 | Memory suggested that both Byron and Shelley had a taste for the morbid ; no doubt they would enjoy meeting Edgar Allan Poe — yet Poe would be only a child still , somewhere across a very wide Atlantic . |
| 12 | Luke Hunter might be technically a stranger . |
| 13 | But he says the arrival of £650,000 Martin Kuhl from Portsmouth could be just the tonic County 's under-pressure stars need . |
| 14 | Call the new directory DUSTBIN — you could use the name TRASH , but DUSTBIN will be nearer the top on an alphabetically sorted directory tree . |
| 15 | Sheila would be just the same . |
| 16 | For example , the sedimentary rocks that form the top geological layer in much of southern Britain may be only a few hundred metres thick in a few isolated sites . |
| 17 | She suggested that Gros Jos might be just a little too strong , even in French-speaking Canada , meaning as it does ‘ Big Tits ’ . |
| 18 | I know that there are no easy answers , but if we do not at least attempt to act decisively , Zagreb , Dubrovnik , Vukovar and Osijek could be just the first names on a ghastly roll call resembling those unending , poignant first world war memorials that are such a feature of life all over the continent of Europe . |
| 19 | When he fights for his country in Barcelona in July , Richardson will be only the second representative from Middlesbrough to compete in the Olympics . |
| 20 | A decision to cut or pass the dividend will be especially painful for Costain because of the blow it will be for the 91 per cent of shareholders who took up last year 's rights issue and because Costain will be only the second major contractor , after John Laing , to cut the pay-out . |
| 21 | A similar horror sends back the chorus far from their supposedly civilized city into a desert past where April would be again the cruellest month , as they pray ‘ let the spring not come . |
| 22 | Sparc will be only the third architecture — after Intel Corp 's iAPX-86 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC — that Novell Inc will have native NetWare 4.0 on . |
| 23 | But on the other hand , as much as Novell might be just the right tug boat to guide Unix to safe harbour , much of the industry 's optimism stems from the fact that Unix is no longer in AT&T 's hands . |
| 24 | The birds caught in the traps on Fair Isle will be mainly the smaller passerines such as warblers , chats and the like , which tend to seek out any cover available . |