Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full council meeting is due to go ahead with the formality of passing the decision taken in January by members of Durham County Council 's social services committee . |
| 2 | When are you due to go back to the hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 4 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
| 5 | Despite the growth of the disabled people 's movement these paper professionals still think it quite normal to sit down round the table and decide what 's best for us . |
| 6 | As he waxed into an eloquent period , he would realize the absurdity of his situation or the humbug of his pleading and be overcome with internal laughter , a laughter so vast that on occasion it left him too weak to go on with the speech . |
| 7 | It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form , and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index . |
| 8 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 9 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 10 | I have little to report here for the station is closed . |
| 11 | He was staring at the glove box now , he was too low to see out of the window . |
| 12 | However , Operation Granby proved that it is possible to go out onto the charter market for ships and find ships from many different nations to perform the tasks that we wanted of them . |
| 13 | So now he sat there , his napkin tucked around his chin , smiling gently : a mild-natured , weak , weakened old man , loyal to his bully of a wife , glad to be included , glad Shirley had n't found it all too much for her , grateful to sit there in the warmth of the nice oil-fired 1970s central heating . |
| 14 | The Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education is due to report soon to the secretary of state for health on how staff in NHS teaching hospitals can be helped to teach better . |
| 15 | Established in 1985 with an initial funding of about £14 million , DELTA has now commissioned 30 projects for its exploratory phase , most due to report back to the Commission early in 1991 . |
| 16 | It is not only impossible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations which are nothing but abstract relations , but it is only possible to theorize fruitfully on the basis of abstract relations that refer directly to observable phenomena in material reality . |
| 17 | Tony took the overdose on Sunday night , at around the time when his father , his father 's girl friend and her son were due to come back from the pub . |
| 18 | In the course of the journey one of them , an RAF pilot , had been shot dead trying to jump out of the train in an attempt to reach an Italian fighter plane on an airfield and fly it to Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 20 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 21 | Her grandfather 's insistence that she was free to go out into the world now and take a course of training was so much nonsense . |
| 22 | I had said that her view was unreasonable and Syl was free to go out in the evening as he wished . |
| 23 | The creative way of handling tensions is to be prepared to forgive right from the beginning . |
| 24 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 25 | ‘ Whatever can he do for a living , if he 's free to ramble about in the middle of the working week in April ? |
| 26 | Nevertheless , practically all the rules have exceptions and readers may feel that the rules are so complex that it would be easier to go back to the idea of learning the stress for each word individually . |
| 27 | Douglas was forming up a tight group to tackle this entrance , and another to proceed round to the rear to block any back-door escape , when the night 's wet quiet was suddenly disturbed . |
| 28 | While West Germany , for example , was willing to go along with the proposal ( but only if there was a joint system of ECSC subsidy financing ) , the net importers of coal within the Six — France , Italy and the Netherlands — were totally hostile to the notion of national contributions to a joint financing policy . |
| 29 | Revealing details of Iraq 's latest assurances delivered on March 20 , Rolf Ekeus , head of the joint UN and International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) special commission on Iraq , told a press conference in New York the same day that his commission was " satisfied there are undertakings that the Iraqis are willing to go along with the destruction [ of ] capabilities " which they had not previously agreed to destroy . |
| 30 | It is here that psychoanalysis has had its most popular appeal , seeming to explain why some obsessionals continually need to wash their hands , or why some children are desperately afraid of horses or dogs , or why some people are afraid to go out of the house . |