Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 2 | A prospective purchaser would presumably be hesitant to proceed in such circumstances without adequate insurance protection . |
| 3 | The inquiry , which started two weeks ago , is due to continue in Northallerton until June 19 , break for more than two weeks and reconvene at Marton , Middlesbrough , on July 7 . |
| 4 | BR management was ‘ incompetent and unimaginative , ’ he said If the chairman , Sir Robert Reid , were not due to retire in April , he should be sacked . |
| 5 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 6 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 7 | The new sales division is headed by Paul Hutchinson as director of sales ( David Marten is due to retire in the near future ) and John Mohin has been appointed sales manager , responsible for UK sales operations , assisted by Diane Best and Michael Trotter as regional sales managers . |
| 8 | John Shalikashvili was appointed NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe in succession to Gen. John Galvin , who had been in post since 1987 and was due to retire in mid-1992 . |
| 9 | Known as Jimmy by his friends , he was due to retire in December and has been a weaver with Stoddards for the past 34 years . |
| 10 | He will replace existing director Donald Main , who is due to retire in 1995 . |
| 11 | Fifty six year old Lieutenant General , Sir Peter de la Beliaire was due to retire in November , instead , he 's preparing to fight a war . |
| 12 | The man who was in charge of the A S , er the S A S storming of the Iranian Embassy ten years ago is to lead Britain 's forces in the Gulf ; fifty-six year old Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Beliaire was due to retire in November . |
| 13 | It may not be possible now to reorganise the power industry to sell services , rather than energy , but it is at least possible to plan in terms of the uses to which the energy must be put . |
| 14 | By this means it is also possible to plan in advance approximately how much of each crop will be grown to meet your needs . |
| 15 | This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork . |
| 16 | In Fig. 14.1 , with interest rate r 1 , it will be profitable to invest in all projects up to I 1 , with I 1 itself breaking even . |
| 17 | It was strange to see in the flesh a man whose name and face had since 1939 been almost as familiar to me as those of Churchill or Hitler . |
| 18 | It is not possible to go in two different directions at the same time . |
| 19 | ( 3C ) In subsection 3A ( above ) " landlord " , in relation to a residential occupier of any premises , means the person who , but for — ( a ) the residential occupier 's right to remain in occupation of the premises , or |
| 20 | If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause . |
| 21 | And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use . |
| 22 | Is it right to see in the big reduction in disconnections signs of a different attitude on the part of the electricity companies to their customers and signs of better management since the companies were privatised , and is there scope for further improvement in this respect ? |
| 23 | It is possible to include in the wording of the Deed that the covenant will cease if certain conditions occur — for example , if you become unemployed or your income falls below a certain level . |
| 24 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 25 | Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix . |
| 26 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 27 | I find the Préludes disappointing , too brightly lit and stated rather than suggested : to take examples from Book 1 , the opening of ‘ Le vent dans la plaine ’ is not pp and surely not aussi légèrement que possible for this pianist , while the ‘ sounds and perfumes ’ of the next piece are too solid to float in the evening air . |
| 28 | Regulars from several Hartlepool pubs are due to gather in the Park Hotel today for a 12-hour charity quiz to raise money for the Telethon appeal . |
| 29 | Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September . |
| 30 | However , the register , classifying the remainder of the country 's 36,000,000 people , only 4,500,000 of them white , was due to remain in force until the agreement of an eventual new constitution which , de Klerk told parliament , was " within our reach within a few years " . |