Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 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.
2 Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 .
3 Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work .
4 You must of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January .
5 More of that later , you must also have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January .
6 You must also , of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January .
7 ‘ I hope to be able to legislate in the next parliamentary session , ’ he said .
8 If Durham spends some of that cash in Darlington the Government should be able to help in the second and third year of development . ’
9 To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice .
10 Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place .
11 Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 .
12 They were lucky to survive in the 40th minute when Taylor headed against the crossbar , but Wycombe 's Steve Thompson saw a 49th-minute header was cleared off the line by Paul Raven .
13 A few months earlier , West Indies had encountered any number of problems in Australia and had lost the series 5–1 ; they had then beaten India 2–1 at home , the last match being won when no fewer than five Indians were unable to bat in the second innings .
14 However , if you were able to travel in the third dimension , you could cut straight across .
15 ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’
16 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 .
17 Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year .
18 The Sentry-E machine , built around 50MHz 80486 chips , is due to ship in the fourth quarter .
19 If something goes wrong , they do n't know what they are going to have to pay because if I 'm a pension fund manager now , I do n't know what is likely to happen in the next year which is going call on me for compensation .
20 This is likely to commence in the third week of September .
21 Well , th , the definition of a terminal illness as regards that is , according to the underwriters , is that the client 's life is likely to die in the next twelve months .
22 With out-of-sorts Tony Jones his first-round opponent over 19 frames on Monday , Wattana 's moment of truth is likely to come in the second round when he will almost certainly face favourite Stephen Hendry , the world No 1 , over 25 frames .
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 There was much to do in the next few days .
25 The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place .
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