Example sentences of "[noun prp] is [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're implying that the KGB is running some big operation in Romania . |
| 2 | In Dering Street , Annely Juda is showing several large new wood sculptures by David Nash in an exhibition titled ‘ At the Edge of the Forest ’ ( to 19 June ) . |
| 3 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be dishonest to pretend that the NSPCC is making any significant impact on the problem — even they would not claim it . ’ |
| 5 | Of course , we must remember that Anthony is considering all non-business organizations , not just governmental organizations as Drebin et al. |
| 6 | ‘ I think Denholm is directing this whole business because it 's rolling so quickly , ’ said Susan ( 50 ) . |
| 7 | The right hon. Gentleman quotes job losses , but he fails to mention Tesco 's plans for 5,000 new jobs over the next year , Safeway 's plans for 2,000 jobs , Nissan 's plans for 600 new jobs in the north-east , and the fact that Toyota is providing another 3,000 jobs in Derbyshire . |
| 8 | In particular , the growing software industry in Northern Ireland is providing many new and interesting jobs . |
| 9 | What we 've done in North Notts is to sink some new bore-holes . |
| 10 | Mr Dickens is doin' some good . ’ |
| 11 | * British retailer B&Q is to withdraw all Brazilian mahogany from its shops in April . |
| 12 | Youngsters Dwight Yorke and Stephen Froggatt returned against Arsenal on Monday to help revitalise Villa 's flagging challenge and Atkinson is holding several more in reserve to throw into the Championship skirmish . |
| 13 | THE BBC is to shed another 1,500 employees over the next 18 months , bringing the total of jobs axed since 1986 to 7,000 . |
| 14 | Llyn Brenig is situated some 35 miles form Colwyn Bay , and is well worth a visit . |
| 15 | Cable & Wireless Plc says it does not accept those claims made against it by its local partners in Digitel Telecommunications Philippines Inc ( CI No 2,171 ) and will defend against the allegations : ‘ We have received no official notification of this claim and we do not accept the validity of the allegations as we understand them from the press , and would expect to defend our position robustly , ’ it said ; Reuter reports from Manila that the local Cable & Wireless office says that it advised the company last September that it could not invest further in the country until a court case involving another local affiliate , Eastern Telecommunications Philippines Inc , was resolved — Eastern is locked in a legal battle with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co and appealing a Supreme Court order denying it the right to operate an international gateway ; an industry source said Digitel is tapping another major local partner and British Telecommunications Plc as new shareholders in the company . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's what Riddick Bowe did by beating Pierre Coetzer and now Frank Bruno is getting all brave by daring to face Coetzer . ’ |
| 17 | Claiming to have ‘ seen it all , ’ they say Fujitsu is doing some interesting things with Sparc , but the Cypress Semiconductor Corp/Ross Pinnacle effort is ‘ still a long way off . ’ |
| 18 | To confront the anger of God is to find some deeper reality about ourselves and our world that we would prefer to forget . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 20 | Though he was careful to say that the solution was not to ‘ throw money at problems ’ , Clinton is recycling such old Great Society approaches as job-training , education programmes and the like , all part of the package that enabled the Democrats in the sixties to shirk what the party advocated in 1946 , namely a full employment act . |
| 21 | To celebrate the launch , Sega is staging several massive promotions including an enormous airship which will fly over from France . |
| 22 | Francis is changing all that . |
| 23 | Given the task of reviving urban policy at low cost , Kemp is considering such Thatcherite innovations as housing vouchers , tenant management and tenant purchase of public housing . |
| 24 | And yet the fascination among ( overwhelmingly white ) rock music critics with the big , scary black man ( talk about perpetrating stereotypes ! ) survives , to the point where NME is getting all teary-eyed about Brave Little Time-Warner , heroically standing up to the Huns of censorship . |
| 25 | Knutsford is situated some 16 miles to the south of Manchester . |
| 26 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 27 | We look forward to his arrival in Britannia again and Boudicca is saving some good legs for him , — in fact they belong to a soldier of the IXth Legion who did n't hear her shout ‘ Get outta the way you stupid git ’ when she was trying her chariot out on the new road . |
| 28 | Perhaps one of the most valuable assets of TL is restoring some tangible contact with the environment , although only to a limited extent . |
| 29 | Iveco Ford is to lose another 100 jobs . |