Example sentences of "[vb infin] [noun prp] [unc] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deal was worth an estimated US$6,000 million , and the purchase would substantially upgrade Taiwan 's ageing air force , which consisted mainly of 30-year-old F-5Es and 40-year-old F-5 fighters . |
| 2 | Indeed Patinkin ( 1965 ) has suggested that one should regard Keynes 's full employment aggregate supply function as one of an infinite set of vertical supply functions , each function corresponding to different values for the real wage rate as in Figure 7.4 . |
| 3 | Hungary and the Soviet Union signed a trade protocol on April 18 providing that the Soviet Union would remain Hungary 's main trading partner ; however , Soviet exports to Hungary would decrease by 8.5 per cent and imports by 12 per cent . |
| 4 | BIG cash prizes with £300 for the winner will make Saturday 's Super Match the most valuable shore fishing event on the River Mersey . |
| 5 | Perhaps he can explain Falconer 's macabre joke about graves ? ’ |
| 6 | Thus it became certain that Rennenkampf could not , for at least two , possibly three , days , come to Samsonov 's aid and that the entire German Eastern Group could , therefore , assail Samsonov 's right wing with impunity . |
| 7 | Conan Doyle 's celebrated creation had never been fully explained in the books , the ploy of writing the novels from Doctor Watson 's perspective avoiding any need to explain or qualify Holmes 's astonishing brilliance and motivation . |
| 8 | And which would tempt Faustina 's delicate appetite ? |
| 9 | In fact , although George Wigg was close to Wilson , he never enjoyed the same intimate relationship , for the very good reason that he was a politician and did not enjoy Wilson 's undivided trust . |
| 10 | She did n't know Geoffrey 's exact age , but the gap could n't be less than five or six years . |
| 11 | European Marketing , Chevenoz , France , will market YMI 's stuff on the continent , UK , Oxford-based Phase IV Systems will head up support services for Europe and sell to VARs — Open Minds AB of Lund , Sweden , will market YMI 's educational software . |
| 12 | Next month we 'll attack Cliff 's second solo , where he moves the song into the key of F. See you then . |
| 13 | The application of evolutionary ideas to the study of knowledge has recently been urged by a number of people , but I shall only discuss Campbell 's evolutionary epistemology ( Campbell 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Work began on May 6 on the site of the new leisure complex at Chester-le-Street which will include Durham 's permanent county ground . |
| 15 | The King 's good will did not survive Tyndale 's next book , The Practice of Prelates , which , in attacking Wolsey and the English clergy , argued that they had influenced the King in his decision to divorce Catherine of Aragon . |
| 16 | Those wishing to further explore Nottingham 's significant contribution to the growth of machine made lace should visit the MUSEUM OF COSTUMES AND TEXTILES on Castlegate and THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM of beautiful WOLLATON HALL . |
| 17 | Further , he believed the Board had no evidence of other successful experience in partnership with the WEA which might offset or counter Watts 's trenchant criticism . |
| 18 | One may also attack Porter 's cost-differentiation dichotomy in terms of the logical use of language . |
| 19 | It had been Arthur 's brainwave in the night ; they must know Clare 's second name , and address . |
| 20 | ‘ That scale of operation does make Anthony 's black marketing seem quite trivial , does n't it ? ’ said Julia as they watched the jeep disappearing in a cloud of dust . |
| 21 | As defined in its own " statement of mission " , SNH will aim to protect and enhance Scotland 's natural heritage and enable everyone to understand , enjoy and use it wisely " in a manner which is sustainable " . |
| 22 | Pro-life groups complain that the protocol , which says EC law can not affect Ireland 's anti-abortion law , is too lax . |
| 23 | The Belfast Harbour Commissioners are confident that during the 1990's the Port of Belfast will remain Ireland 's premier port , largely due to its ability to respond to the challenges presented by changing trading patterns within an economically unified Europe and by its ability to satisfy its customers ' need and demands for an efficient , cost effective service . |
| 24 | Family ties , however , did not prevent Victoria 's clear-headed assessment that intervention was useless . |
| 25 | Take the moment in the ‘ Pantomime ’ from part three where Pan/Daphnis declares his love for Syrinx/Chloé ( fig. 173 : Rattle , track 12 , 0′53″ ) : Abbado 's LSO strings slide around in an appallingly sticky manner here , whereas Rattle 's declaration is whispered , tender and somehow delightfully aware that this is ‘ play ’ within a play ; as is his treatment of the same passage forte a few bars on ( at 1′44″ ) , you can sense Pan 's mock desperation as Syrinx disappears among the reeds — it is a deliberately exaggerated gesture ( back of hand against forehead ? ) and very amusing . |
| 26 | Riven could feel Madra 's soft breathing beside him . |
| 27 | In Part Two , I shall analyze Nizan 's literary output with specific reference to his three published novels , Antoine Bloye , Le Cheval de Troie and La Conspiration , as well as his unfinished and unpublished final novel La Soiree a Somosierra . |
| 28 | The Labour Party now denies the need to maintain and modernise NATO 's nuclear deterrent . |
| 29 | I wo n't do Jordan 's dirty work for him . ’ |
| 30 | When the women gossip at their looms , they do not speak Tolstoy 's pure peasant Russian , but a dialect that differs from one village to the next . |