Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] [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 The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer .
3 Tennant succeeds Lord Carrington who is due to retire after a five-year term as Chairman of Christie 's International next May .
4 However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge .
5 Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action .
6 The first is whether it is possible to agree upon a generic curriculum , based on a set of headings or topics , which may be treated quite differently by those in different disciplines ( e.g. typographers , computer scientists ) .
7 I still have grave doubts as to whether it is right to go for a single currency , fixed exchange rates and the whole of that considerable abdication of political sovereignty .
8 The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media .
9 Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level .
10 Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) .
11 There are solutions of Einstein 's general theory of relativity in which it is possible to fall into a black hole and come out of a white hole .
12 The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 .
13 Whoever sowed the seed , the conference was due to meet within a few hours .
14 Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week .
15 He is due to appear as a Palestinian architect in a Channel 4 drama series The Big Battalions .
16 ( Infuriatingly , though , the notes are due to appear in a separate volume , which has still not been published , so it is impossible to tell whether the quotation comes from a letter , from conversation or from some unauthenticated report at second-hand . )
17 The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time .
18 Unfortunately , often it is not possible to comment on a given source study 's assumptions as only summary calculations are presented .
19 It is not possible to come to a firm conclusion about this project in financial terms at the moment .
20 Even today it is possible to come across a secondary school without any library , in the sense of a collection housed in a room set aside entirely for that purpose ; some of these libraryless schools are in the private sector , and eager parents pay heavily for the " privilege " .
21 The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law .
22 Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme .
23 And the system of Standing Cabinet Committees , which was developed in the War Cabinet days , now makes it possible to work with a smaller Cabinet , on the lines of your War Cabinet and ‘ Caretaker ’ Cabinet , 49 without impairing the principle of collective responsibility .
24 In addition to this , he thought it might be possible to work with a sympathetic artist in a good studio , and perhaps take lessons at an academy .
25 It is also vital to keep all abrasives dust-free , and if possible to work in a dust-free environment .
26 In those places where there is a delay in substantiation , faith is prepared to wait for a long time at the bar of history .
27 However , he went on to say that the acceptance of the existence of Communist China did not mean that Taiwan had abandoned its " one-China policy " and that the country was prepared to wait for a positive response to its proposals for unification on the basis of liberal democratic policies .
28 On the other hand , maybe that soft , slightly husky voice belonged to a nicely rounded wench willing to indulge in a little loveplay as well as sing about it .
29 The princess , patron of the Northern Ballet , told stars of the company 's production they had been brave to go for a modern version of the Tchaikovsky classic .
30 But since then things have changed , and if they are prepared to go to a little trouble and expense they can now acquire a cat that will almost certainly give them no problems .
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