Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nothing is easier than to obey a master who is perhaps exacting , but who rules over all details of life , assures one 's daily bread , and makes it possible to banish all concern from the mind .
2 Despite the fact that some anxiety is necessary and normal to perform any task , in coping with anxiety and stress problems clinically we are usually dealing with levels which are too high .
3 I 'm due to go next week .
4 Is it possible to disconnect each thing from itself and still arrive at a recognisable record ?
5 In such a manner it was possible to disconnect spiritual significance from spatial co-ordinates .
6 Nevertheless , if pragmatics is to be considered a component within linguistic theory ( a question to which we shall return ) , it may be that to include such principles is indeed to include too much .
7 It may seem strange to include this chapter , but there are two reasons .
8 Speakers there included former managing directors of BBC-TV , Sir Paul Fox and Bill Cotton , and Sir Michael , who is due to attend another farewell dinner tonight , hosted by the BBC .
9 He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him .
10 It was possible to classify rectal sensations into a group with no sensation , a group with intermittent need for defecation , and a group with continued need for defecation throughout the distension period .
11 Looking in more detail , it is possible to classify seismic activity into four zones .
12 On the date of the Appin murder , Glenure was due to evict eleven Stewart families from Ardshiel , against which James Stewart led the fight for legal redress .
13 Meanwhile , Uniforum 's erstwhile executive director Ed Palmer , who 's due to retire next year , has moved over to head up the trade show and conferences , making way for his successor Richard Jarros ( UX No 410 ) .
14 Sir David , who piloted Rolls-Royce Motors back to success after the ‘ 71 crash and who is due to retire next month , says : ‘ It depends how we do it — there are so many ways of developing a new Rolls-Royce .
15 Much of it has come from work with animals , for here it is possible to arrange particular experiences at particular ages and subsequently test for their effect on the behaviour of mature animals .
16 Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance .
17 In the case of hard tissue , like teeth and bones , the identification of homology is relatively straightforward because it is possible to compare present forms with the common ancestor and this can be used as an additional criterion for homology .
18 I 'll go straight into er item two A I think the first thing the County Council would would wish to say this erm examination is that er today we are really seeing the culmination of I suspect er ten year work erm in Greater York by the Greater York authority and a particularly intensive period of work over the last five years , er by the Greater York authorities , the paper that I put round N Y five the matter two A really addresses the history and why we reached the conclusions corporately that we have and as all as we 've already indicated erm progress was able to be made when the Secretary of State included a Greater York er dimension erm into the er into the structure plan in a the first alteration , erm and that enabled a body of work to be undertaken by the Greater York authority , and I think I ought to say at this point that the Greater York authority comprises of the County Council er and five District Councils , and there you have six different councils , all with an interest in the future of Greater York , sitting down together , trying to sort out the way in which the future of Greater York erm ought ought to be developed , and the means they did it did that of course was through the Greater York study , which began in nineteen eighty eight and started off immediately with a study of forty , fifty development , potential development sites , erm in and around er er Greater York which produced a report , as I said in on page three of the of N Y five , around about April nineteen eighty nine , the conclusions of which were quite clearly unacceptable to erm members of the Greater York authority , because they saw quite clearly , and they were supported by the public in this , that to continue peripheral development , which had been the pattern of development in the Greater York area , erm certainly through the sixties and seventies er was unacceptable in terms of its impact on settlements , and particularly er its impact erm on erm erm the York greenbelt which still at that stage erm had yet to be made statutory , and that was again one of the main stimuli to making progress , the need to s formally define er the York greenbelt .
19 It may be possible to target specific phonemes to assess articulation but the child 's performance is likely to be somewhat better than during spontaneous speech .
20 With knowledge of the particular error , it is possible to implement some correction algorithms .
21 It would be possible to mount two sorts of argument against the Protocols style of conspiracy theory from within the conspiracy tradition itself .
22 In association with Museums and galleries , it will make it possible to mount new kinds of displays and to make the usually unseen collections accessible .
23 Tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy the magic of sculpture , and theatres like Show of Hands encourage those who are deaf to enjoy live theatre like everyone else .
24 The team , who were due to monitor environmental damage caused by the Gulf War , had been invited by the Iranian government .
25 But an increase in claims , especially against fire and damage to council owned property has forced MMI to suspend all payments of claims .
26 The importance of the law in such matters is in creating a centre of power which makes it possible to enforce moral duties .
27 But he did little to silence those doubters who believe that the blond Australian 's best form is behind him .
28 These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights .
29 Once consent is given it is possible to plan further discussions and interviews , or a family meeting .
30 Meanwhile , staff at the Credit Card Centre paid £2 each to wear casual clothing for work .
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