Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text of the cable was : Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game , making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration . |
| 2 | The Nottingham Trent University has sponsored this vehicle ( the first Institution of Higher Education to do so ) because of its concern that too many young girls reject the Science and Engineering option without any real insight into the satisfaction it offers . |
| 3 | As well as failing to reward its rural working-class supporters , the Azaña coalition proved to have little to offer the large and politically pivotal class of small tenant farmers . |
| 4 | He said he would look into a dispute which was holding up the release of Brussels cash to help build some factories on the site of the old Darlington forge . |
| 5 | Naturally , the Ceauşescu clan had to possess more consumer goods than anyone else in order to assert their authority . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , in 1918 , following the retirement of the Rev W B Sleight as President , the Rev F W Gilby M.A. agreed to occupy this position as a stop-gap until the election of a successor at the first Congress after the end of the First World War . |
| 7 | Other than the exceptional arrangements approved by the Board of Education for Nottingham University , no other WEA District had conceded this fundamental encroachment on its providing powers . |
| 8 | To summarize , the McKinsey matrix seems to have more general scope for devising investment and general financial-management policy . |
| 9 | The Goa Congress had attracted most of its support from the Christian and Konkani-speaking southern area of the state , and in large part the election in November was fought on communal lines with the Hindu-dominated MGP campaigning for recognition of Marathi as a full official language for the state . |
| 10 | Two years ago the United States Congress voted to outlaw this counterfeiting by passing the Indian Arts and Crafts Law of 1990 . |
| 11 | The next development with increasing Rayleigh number does produce such fluctuations — periodic ones . |
| 12 | Years ago , Shrewsbury Diocese offered to support any woman considering contemplating an abortion if she was prepared to continue with her pregnancy . |
| 13 | The ‘ Sounds in Words ’ part of the test uses a picture-naming approach to elicit words which contain the relevant phonemes ; whereas the EAT focuses exclusively upon consonants , the Goldman-Fristoe test claims to sample all consonants ( except ‘ measure , ) , all vowels and the majority of English diphthongs . |
| 14 | LIABILITY : CASE LAW ACCUMULATES Proving that loss was directly caused by a breach of auditing duty is likely to be difficult |
| 15 | IBM Corp has shocked all Manhattan — or at any rate New York 's chattering classes — by announcing that it is to close the Gallery of Science & Art , an extremely popular gallery for visiting art exhibitions in the basement of its tower on Madison Avenue : it says it will try to find the seven employees of the gallery other jobs in the company , without holding out very much hope . |
| 16 | IBM Corp has added several new features to its low-end RS/6000 , the Model 220 . |
| 17 | Paul Zamecnik and Mary Stephenson of Harvard University have used this approach to interfere with the activity of Rous sarcoma virus ( a retrovirus that causes cancer in animals ) . |
| 18 | What on earth had Hugh Puddephat done to provoke such passionate hatred in this well-mannered woman ? |
| 19 | LATE SHOW RANGERS suffered a shock defeat at this venue early last season and a repeat looked on the cards as the Ibrox side struggled to find any rhythm after their extra-time exertions against Aberdeen in midweek . |
| 20 | Obviously , the Maastricht mess has dogged this first year , so it is difficult to assess what impact , if any , the supposedly new caring Major and his cabinet have had on social policy . |
| 21 | Recent drilling in an area north of the St Austell Granite has proved several high grade veins and flat lying zones in the killas ( MEG 237 ) . |
| 22 | The Quality Scotland Foundation aims to enhance these by providing a focus for lobbying and promotion . |
| 23 | Neither Nehru nor Jinnah gained all that they wanted ( or what they had announced as their objectives ) but Aung San and Thakin Nu did obtain all their demands , despite British objections . |
| 24 | On Aug. 4 Kazakh radio had reported that trade between Kazakhstan and the Chinese autonomous district of Ili Kazak had totalled US$122 million in the first four months of 1992 . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Once considered a vital and strategic waterway — huge quantities of war material passed through the canal during the Vietnam war — the Panama Canal has lost some of its importance because of air freight . |
| 27 | Marjorie Bilbow , in Cinema TV Today , described the production as ‘ very plodding and unimaginative ’ , and Clyde Jeavons wrote in the British Film Institute 's Monthly Film Bulletin , ‘ Apart from accommodating a number of half-hearted and totally unmemorable songs and dance routines , William Sterling has taken few liberties with the original narrative , but at the same time he has divested it of both its charm and its potential for cinematic comic invention . |
| 28 | What is really needed , though , are some rules of thumb that represent a summation of reasoning about settlement sites , and B. J. Garner of the Geography Department of Bristol University has provided these in ‘ some underlying regularities ’ in models about settlements . |
| 29 | With those SDS contacts he journeyed on to the West Coast , where the Vietnam Day Committee had started that May . |
| 30 | The Bretton Woods conference had accepted that adjustment should be borne by surplus as well as deficit countries through including a ‘ scarce-currency clause ’ in the articles of agreement . |