Example sentences of "be [adj] [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Carol McEvoy and her daughters Angela and Moira are due to speak at a press conference at Cleveland police 's headquarters in Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Both products are due to ship at the beginning of June . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They are free to evolve at the mutation rate . |
| 7 | Surely where the boundaries are around rural settlements , whether or not there are boundaries around rural settlements , does n't flow from E two but flows from decisions that district councils are free to make at the moment . |
| 8 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 9 | Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time . |
| 10 | I 'M through with all the gentle , kind and witty ‘ sex symbols ’ we 're supposed to fancy at the moment the Angus Deaytons and Kevin Whatelys . |
| 11 | That is about as much as the East Europeans are likely to get at the moment . |
| 12 | Sets of papers from the conference are likely to appear at the end of this year . |
| 13 | You may , you may have lec the lectures are supposed to finish at the end of this term , but if , you know , a lecturer has been ill or has n't managed to get through the stuff erm , you may have some lectures next term , but er |
| 14 | It would have been unthinkable to have at the head of State a King and Queen who could no longer bear to be with each other . |
| 15 | Postgraduate students are welcome to call at the Service at any time during their course and are encouraged to take advantage of the facilities offered as early as possible . |
| 16 | Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively . |
| 17 | But one Moscow designer , at least , has been able to look at the familiar with a fresh eye and use the symbols of Soviet power with wit and imagination . |
| 18 | If I 'd been able to guess at the future , the turning point would have been right there — wheeling the ship around and moving as fast as possible away from anything to do with Fraxilly . |
| 19 | Above all we can not ignore it : whereas at one time we might have been able to smile at the perversity of the local watch committee in another town , the collective action of several dozen politically motivated local authorities to ban News International publications effectively took censorship in libraries well beyond the silly season in the Press ; and whereas we could once afford to hang back with our copies of Fanny Hill secure in the knowledge that we would be nowhere near the top of the prosecution list , Section 28 is in place and ready to pick us off should we try to share our enthusiasm for homosexual literature with more than a few of our consenting adult users . |
| 20 | This suggests a major drop in popularity , and it would be interesting to look at the circulation figures . |
| 21 | It would be wrong to peek at the ending . |
| 22 | So it seems to me if we can agree on what criteria might be appropriate to look at the location of the new settlement on a strategic level , the final version of H two will in fact probably be much shorter , more concise er than the policy H two that we have at the moment . |
| 23 | Questions which had no real purpose in the first place are unlikely to be easy to analyse at the answer stage since the researcher is seeking for answers to his hypotheses which will show whether they are to be substantiated or not . |
| 24 | But before we move on , it may be instructive to look at the relationship between language viewed as a formal system and language as part of a wider social and psychological context , and to say something about the place of these two approaches in the development of ideas about language in general . |
| 25 | Given the amount of negative equity still locking in to the system , it may be instructive to look at the UK consumer 's reaction to lower interest rates . |
| 26 | ‘ Look : I ca n't say this strictly , as a scientist , but it is my feeling that a bonfire , grilling a kipper or lighting a cigarette all release greater concentrations of dioxins than you 'd be likely to find at the end of the pipe of a properly run high-temperature incinerator . ’ |
| 27 | There are no firm legal rules about the proper approach that a company should adopt , but often it will be reasonable to look at the organisation as a whole , without dividing it into separate compartments . |
| 28 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 29 | The idea was that PEPs would encourage individuals to invest in British industry , receive annual reports and be able to vote at the AGMs . |
| 30 | A defence spokesman said : ‘ We are glad to be able to confirm at the request of the United States that the UK will participate in the operation . ’ |