Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 2 | So inviting was the gap created that the loose forward was able to score at the back of the posts , leaving Maskill with another simple kick . |
| 3 | Such a transfer is difficult to achieve at the best of times . |
| 4 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 5 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 6 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 7 | The girl was quick to catch at the hint , drawing breath gratefully . |
| 8 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 9 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
| 10 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 11 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 12 | He however submitted that the magistrate was obliged to look at the whole of the evidence emanating from Price and that , since Price had retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant , that evidence must be regarded as worthless and wholly unreliable , and so incapable of forming the basis of a committal . |
| 13 | Her father was busy looking at the Evening News , as he did every evening after tea . |
| 14 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 15 | Today every able-bodied man is liable to serve at the front — in a war in which casualties are sickeningly high . |
| 16 | THE qualifying pattern of the 1995 WORLD CUP is likely to change at the IRB meeting in Wellington , if the proposals worked out by World Cup Director Russ Thomas are accepted . |
| 17 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 18 | A bucket is useful to look at the animals more closely . |
| 19 | With regard to UK source income it was accepted , because the income arose in the United Kingdom , that the trust was liable to tax at the basic rate and the additional 10 per cent rate ( p474(h) ) . |
| 20 | The etymological team of the Seventh Research Fleet was privileged to sit at the feet of two gentlemen of the Oeldrid Stance Academy . |
| 21 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |