Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances . |
| 2 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 3 | The Government are right to seek a twin-track approach whereby we retain the essential strength and security of NATO while developing a new role for the Western European Union . |
| 4 | I think that they are right to want a sufficient number of qualified paediatric specialists in the hospital . |
| 5 | This suggests that we are right to make a powerful link between evangelism and church planting . |
| 6 | All are due to visit the Solar System in the mid-1990s . |
| 7 | ‘ We are due to take the Norwegian striker Frank Strandli from IK Start when problems over a work permit are sorted out , there are some promising young players coming through and we should have key men David Batty and Mel Sterland back after injury soon . ’ |
| 8 | Representatives of the steering group are due to meet the Labour-controlled council 's insurers , Municipal Mutual , next month to negotiate the final details of the compensation agreement . |
| 9 | Pakistan are due to end a short tour here on January 8 and we have no international cricket scheduled then until the end of February , when Australia arrive here . |
| 10 | It is likely that this will change as LaserGo , the authors of GoScript , are due to introduce a special card which will contain its own processor and memory capable of running the program . |
| 11 | Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule . |
| 12 | Provenance studies of sandstone sequences are possible using the modal composition plus maturity indicators ( Fig. 5.10 ; Table 5.5 ) ( Valloni & maynard , 1981 ; Dickinson , 1985 ; Valloni , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 14 | While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later . |
| 15 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 16 | A proposal by Milosevic that the congress should continue without the Slovene delegation was rejected , and in the early hours of Jan. 23 Pancevski finally declared that the session , which had been due to adopt the full congress declaration and resolutions on the congress debate , as well as elect a new party leadership , had been adjourned . |
| 17 | There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] . |
| 18 | Elegant and closely-analyzed work has shown that , formed by photolysis of , probably contains a semi-bridging carbonyl group ; in the complicated photolysis of , it has been possible to deduce a great deal about the forms of the intermediate and about the photochemical processes by which it is formed and reacts . |
| 19 | Such shops , offering coordinated fabrics and paper , had never before existed in France ; hitherto it had been possible to hire an interior decorator who would go into a home and suggest exclusive fabrics at exorbitant prices . |
| 20 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |
| 21 | With the support of the local manager of Barclays Bank Plc it has been possible to open a high interest account . |
| 22 | One of the authors , John Perry , director of the Institute of Housing , said yesterday that it had not been possible to calculate a Scottish figure because of differences in the financial systems . |
| 23 | It has been possible to reconstruct the complete instrument , which was a brass portable sundial with a geared calendar that showed the approximate shape of the moon and its age in days and may also have shown its position and that of the sun in the zodiac . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it has not been possible to find a fool-proof numbering system applicable to all molecules , but two simple rules are well-established . |
| 25 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
| 26 | If it had been possible to study the whole country cheaply and in sufficient detail they would have done so . |
| 27 | There are many laboratory techniques for measuring time in speech , and measurement of the time intervals between stressed syllables in connected English speech has not shown the expected regularity ; moreover , using the same measuring techniques on different languages , it has not been possible to show a real difference between ‘ stress-timed ’ and ‘ syllable-timed ’ languages . |
| 28 | It has not been possible to determine the non-submission rate for Scottish geology , but discussions with senior staff suggest that the rate is not as high as in other disciplines . |
| 29 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 30 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |