Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died .
2 By catching the Chamden-London Inter-City train it is possible to go from the Second Division to the Third and back again on this unequalled trip .
3 She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation .
4 For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B.
5 Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on .
6 This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive .
7 Erm i if I 'm honest I think I found Holly 's easier to understand on a first reading but that may be because I think perhaps read it .
8 He possessed considerable skill , had grace and power and was strong in the air , yet he was also willing to battle to the last whistle .
9 ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed .
10 Since both individuals consume whatever quantity of the good is produced , we must add up vertically the price each is prepared to pay for the last unit .
11 We now trade from forty eight locations in France with three more stores due to open in the second half of the financial year .
12 ‘ It is absurd to talk about a fourth Reich , because it is us Germans who are today leading the way in ceding national sovereignty to European institutions ’ , he said .
13 But a fine run of only one defeat in the last eight matches has propelled them back into contention in a duel that looks set to go to the last game .
14 Since it is largely new , it might be appropriate to concentrate on the last chapter which " offers a reading of some very different Shakespearean plays " ( p. 196 ) .
15 Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place .
16 They had found too much to discuss for the last train to Swindon to remain a realistic option and Harry had gladly accepted the offer of overnight hospitality .
17 Queen of the South chairman , Willie Harkness , 74 , looks set to resign from the Second Division side and be replaced by Bill Jardine , a club director for 17 years .
18 It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world .
19 WELL BEYOND the wildest expectations of even the most optimistic airframe designer , certain piston-engines airlines seem set to fly into the next century .
20 Impossible to say of the first move , it was her will , and not to extend that to what followed , or reason is gone mad . ’
21 Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year .
22 The Sentry-E machine , built around 50MHz 80486 chips , is due to ship in the fourth quarter .
23 Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness .
24 Why do they think trains are so hard to spot in the first place ?
25 If the absence continues to a fourth day , at that time , you or some other person acting on your behalf , must notify the Divisional/Section Head of the continuing absence and whether the period of absence is likely to continue beyond the seventh day .
26 TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day .
27 That rich mixture is likely to continue into the next election , because already it has been announced that the prospective parliamentary candidates for the Thanet , South seat in the next election will include a Mr. William Pitt and the leader of the Corrective party , Miss Whiplash .
28 From this you can identify the trends and thus assign probabilities to the various types of question likely to appear on the next occasion .
29 Most of the reorganisation charges incurred in the efficiency drive announced last month , which will prune 3,000 jobs , are also likely to appear in the next accounts .
30 Well we were supposed to meet after the last meeting which was cancelled .
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