Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He keeps Cuba 's economy under state control while Mr Gorbachev is moving the other way . |
| 2 | Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is to head the newly-established " Green Cross " , an organization set up at his own initiative with the aim of being an environmental equivalent of the Red Cross . |
| 3 | Joe Walker is flying the F-104 immediately behind the XB-70 's right downward-deflected wing . |
| 4 | Gerry Adams is trailing the Social , Democratic and Labour Party candidate by more than eight points in West Belfast , according to an Irish News poll . |
| 5 | Former junior doctor Chris Johnstone 's pioneering the legal approach by taking his old employer , Bloomsbury Health Authority to court , backed by the British medical Association 's Chris Finlon . |
| 6 | LITTLE Jonathan Varney is bringing the precious gift of laughter into the life of his tragic elder brother Matthew . |
| 7 | As has already been observed by the Dominican , Conrad Pepler : we need not to labour the fact that Hilton is writing the same things as St John of the Cross , … |
| 8 | Andy is filling the single champagne glass at the apex of the pyramid with champagne ; it is overflowing , filling the three glasses beneath it ; they in turn are overflowing , filling the glasses on the level beneath them , which are also full and so spilling over to the level underneath , and so on and so on down almost to the bottom ; Andy is on his eighth magnum . |
| 9 | Suddenly , there is just the slightest hint that Mr Murdoch is losing the magic touch , and for many investment banks and financial institutions around the world that magic touch was the main reason for backing him . |
| 10 | The United States is reviewing the small amount of aid — about $55m a year — it gives its erstwhile friend . |
| 11 | Paul Shipton is doing the initial writing , and his manuscript will be looked over by Tom Hutchinson before being finalized . |
| 12 | As a former Rover Triumph/Leyland/BL/Austin Rover/Rover man , I was heartened to see Kevin Morley is continuing the best traditions of the company with his new venture . |
| 13 | Worcestershire 's Dave Roberts is to replace the retiring Lawrie Brown as England 's physiotherapist . |
| 14 | Roger Roberts is planning the extra service by adding kennels to the side of CJ 's restaurant building , and offering dinner to the guests while he pampers the human customers . |
| 15 | Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw . |
| 16 | NEC is telling the Japanese press it could n't agree with SGI on either price or technical issues . |
| 17 | If Mr Lang is trivialising the cultural heritage of France , what about the ad agencies , the movie companies , the publishing houses ? |
| 18 | PORTUGAL is to join the European Monetary System 's exchange rate mechanism . |
| 19 | OSF is doing the final integration and testing of DME reportedly because it could n't get any of its members to take the job after the tussle IBM had integrating DCE . |
| 20 | Shaukat Khaliq is to receive the Best Candidate Award for achieving the top mark in the National Leading Firefighters written examination . |
| 21 | Borland is attacking the same problem with its WINDOS concept , under which the Windows and DOS versions of Quattro Pro are sold together in one box . |
| 22 | As a replacement , IBM is taking the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) and Distributed Management environment ( DME ) developed by the Open Software Foundation . |
| 23 | Dr. Briant is doing the right thing — doing his own job to the best of his ability and leaving the rest of it to the people he 's doing it for — you . ’ |
| 24 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 25 | The rapidly changing and fast disappearing ‘ industrial landscape ’ of England is making the familiar works of L. S. Lowry a rather whimsical soft-focus evocation of the history of these islands , as though they are recording just another aspect of embalmed English heritage . |
| 26 | The owner of a private beach in southwestern England is suing the local water company for causing the contamination of his land . |
| 27 | In return , Cuba is promised the Soviet oil that provides 90% of its energy . |
| 28 | We 'd pick coffee from October to January , but January is called the stagnant month . |
| 29 | have only got aye Tottenham is winning the free kick . |
| 30 | Former Top Of The Pops presenter Anthea Turner is joining the Blue Peter team and action girl Michaela Strachan will be hosting The Really Wild Show . |