Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own . |
| 2 | On p 475 the results of the fellowship 's survey of mental hospital closures in England show that 45 hospitals are due to close by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | So not a very successful project in terms of getting people out into the community but people are due to move at the end of this calendar year and I have no doubt that the project will be very successful thereafter . |
| 4 | The ladies ' timing is impeccable : usually they turn up on the day that social-security cheques are due to arrive in the post . |
| 5 | Regulars from several Hartlepool pubs are due to gather in the Park Hotel today for a 12-hour charity quiz to raise money for the Telethon appeal . |
| 6 | The UK office will also support the Benelux countries — French and Scandinavian offices are due to open in the Autumn . |
| 7 | More than 600 Warriors are already in service and by 1994 a total of 1,053 are due to roll off the production lines . |
| 8 | Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June . |
| 9 | One aspect of the regional geography of job loss and job change which it has not been possible to examine in the chapter is the contrasting ways in which different regions of the UK relate to the international division of labour . |
| 10 | Because of popular music 's ubiquitousness and vast scale of production , it has been possible to establish in the collective mind a set of conventional musical ‘ colours ’ — ‘ Spanish ’ , ‘ pastoral ’ , ‘ cowboy ’ , ‘ blue ’ , ‘ hip pie ’ , ‘ punk ’ , and so on — and arrangers and producers can simply lift the technical devices needed for these ready-made veneers off the shelf when needed . |
| 11 | It is because of this historical dimension to the religion that those arguing ( for example ) for the ordination of women apparently find it so difficult to say , in the way in which it has been possible to maintain in the sphere of politics , that we hold these truths to be self-evident , that all human beings are created equal and must not be discriminated against . |
| 12 | I am sorry to intrude on the debate in this way , but , before the speech of the right hon. Member for Selby ( Mr. Alison ) , the House was addresed by the hon. Member for Ceredigion and Pembroke , North ( Mr. Howells ) . |
| 13 | I am sorry to hear of the job losses to which the hon. Gentleman refers , but the only secure future for the coal industry or , indeed , for any other industry , is for it to produce something that people want at a price that people can afford . |
| 14 | The effect of day length on behaviour is mediated hormonally ; the birds are prepared to migrate in the autumn by declining production of sex hormones at the end of the breeding season ; they do not migrate if injected with sex hormones . |
| 15 | No , it even says in here , it says look , there well may be groups of supporters in different categories who 'd like to arrange seats together , unfortunately not be able to do this unless you are prepared to wait until the end of the main selling period |
| 16 | They are prepared to vote against the government , even at the cost of a damaging row just before an election . |
| 17 | Most of the children want the railway and are prepared to help with the survey , but a few want things to remain as they are , and they want to organise resistance to the coming of the railway . |
| 18 | It is refreshingly easy to overcome initial fears , however , if you are prepared to enter into the debate , and not allow yourself to take comments or criticisms personally when a student peers at you agog for carrying out what they see as an archaic approach . |
| 19 | The amount of money that people are prepared to pay for the meal plus the overheads and the establishment . |
| 20 | Generations of lobby journalists at Westminster have had to tussle with the challenge of reconciling the remarks Tory politicians are prepared to make off the record with the ringing declarations of total loyalty and conformity they deliver in public . |
| 21 | Environmentalist groups have criticised the plan , because it still allows some logging in ancient forests , but say they are prepared to work with the Administration to improve it . |
| 22 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 23 | It has also been willing to bargain over the release of French hostages held by Arab groups in the Lebanon even though the government pays lip-service to the official declarations that no such deals should be made . |
| 24 | Faced with a deepening penal crisis on the one hand , and continuing intransigence from sentencers on the other , there was growing pressure throughout the 1990s from a broad constituency — comprising not only penal reformers but also senior civil servants , prison visitors , and prison governors — for the government to accept the need for more effective techniques for the control of sentencing discretion than it had been prepared to concede in the past . |
| 25 | The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press . |
| 26 | The muscle is giving me some grief but as long as there is no long-term damage then I am willing to play through the pain barrier . ’ |
| 27 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 28 | In discussions about ‘ choice ’ , for instance , it would thus have been unrealistic to think of the number of alternative daily papers as growing from nine in 1945 to twelve in 1990 . |
| 29 | They are free to evolve at the mutation rate . |
| 30 | 7.2.1 At present , general practitioners are free to refer to the hospital and consultant of their choice , although in practice this freedom has been restricted in recent years , partly because of health authorities ' reluctance to accept cross-boundary patients . |