Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb mod] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment . |
| 2 | Polly Harvey may record for a small label called Too Pure , but she has managed to become the rising star of the indie world by tackling issues of sexuality head on . |
| 3 | Mr Lawson may win in the end . |
| 4 | Members of a CU may participate in an exchange rate union such as the EMS , and therefore short-term exchange rate adjustment may not be available to them . |
| 5 | But whatever reservations Moscow may have about the latest changes in Budapest , Mr Gorbachev must be aware that the old party would have been annihilated in next year 's elections . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Snow may linger on the high passes as late as June . |
| 8 | The real worries about Germany may come after the 1990s , when Germany is not only whole , free and rich , but has also begun to sense its real power . |
| 9 | Whitehall must move with the times . |
| 10 | In 1969 NATO had agreed that progress in Germany should lead to a conference on European security which Moscow had wanted since the 1950s . |
| 11 | This morning in Bonn , Dr Kohl will preside at an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss how West Germany should respond to the events of recent days . |
| 12 | By the protector 's command , Denby must leave upon the morrow — he is the last of my own loyal retainers . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Whether Highland should remain as a single-tier region or be divided into smaller units is likely to be one of the most difficult decisions Mr Lang faces as he reaches an advanced stage of drawing up his plans for local government reform . |
| 15 | Strong conservation of the glycoprotein-binding region suggests that DRP may bind to the sarcolemma in dystrophic muscle through the glycoprotein complex in a similar manner to dystrophin . |
| 16 | He suggested that Hungary may act as a support centre for Data General 's entire Eastern European operations , while a local manufacturing site could help the company secure more of the large projects currently being financed under the European Community 's PHARE scheme — European-based suppliers are favoured under PHARE criteria . |
| 17 | A quarter of a million are expected in the next ten to twelve days , and the overall total of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait may amount to a full million . |
| 18 | 1979 Conservative Government got into its stride that this tenet was raised from aspirational status to a specific directive that InterCity must operate as a self-financing business . |
| 19 | But he 's not alone , and Wright should look at every other striker in the land being kicked from behind every Saturday — they all have their problems , but do n't act like him . |
| 20 | Corbett should apply for the purpose not only of marriage but also for a charge under s. 30 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 . |
| 21 | It therefore recommended that the WEA should continue as a teaching as well as an organising body , while suggesting that some increase in financial contributions from voluntary sources ‘ would materially help to preserve its independence and its status as a voluntary body ’ — a hint that the WEA could not expect to rely too heavily on government or local authority aid and that its members and friends must continue to dig deep into their pockets . |
| 22 | With the ground rushing up to meet him , Mr Gorbachev must decide between the revolution he grew up believing in and the welfare of the people in whose name that revolution was made . |
| 23 | The Regional Council argues that local government in the Lothians should benefit from the efficiency of a larger , strategic authority while also be responsive to local communities in delivering its services . |
| 24 | The Regional Council argues that local government in the Lothians should benefit from the efficiency of a larger , strategic authority while also being responsive to local communities in delivering its services . |
| 25 | Two of Charlemagne 's leading magnates , Roland and Guenelon ( or Ganelon ) , have fallen out , and Roland suggests that Guenelon should go to the Saracen court to discuss terms with the Muslims ; treachery is suspected , and the embassy is regarded as very dangerous . |
| 26 | None of the new group members felt able to take on the job at present and it was agreed that David should write to the Management Committee to ask for further suggestions . |
| 27 | the future of Uganda must lie in a unitary form of central Government on parliamentary lines covering the whole country … |
| 28 | These statements suggested that schools and LEAs should engage in an analysis of the curriculum and they offered possible kinds of analyses , as well as prescriptions for the curriculum itself . |
| 29 | In any other case where authorisation by the Law Society is sought , the MNP should apply to the Financial Services Section for an investment business certificate — a fee is payable . |
| 30 | Heather 's film would have led him there even if intuition had not , for the next picture on it was of some kind of school or college and there was one member of the Tyrrell Society 's inner circle , the circle in which Heather had been vitally interested whatever Cunningham might believe to the contrary , still unaccounted for . |