Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 2 | The inquiry , which started two weeks ago , is due to continue in Northallerton until June 19 , break for more than two weeks and reconvene at Marton , Middlesbrough , on July 7 . |
| 3 | Known as Jimmy by his friends , he was due to retire in December and has been a weaver with Stoddards for the past 34 years . |
| 4 | BR management was ‘ incompetent and unimaginative , ’ he said If the chairman , Sir Robert Reid , were not due to retire in April , he should be sacked . |
| 5 | Fifty six year old Lieutenant General , Sir Peter de la Beliaire was due to retire in November , instead , he 's preparing to fight a war . |
| 6 | The man who was in charge of the A S , er the S A S storming of the Iranian Embassy ten years ago is to lead Britain 's forces in the Gulf ; fifty-six year old Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Beliaire was due to retire in November . |
| 7 | It may not be possible now to reorganise the power industry to sell services , rather than energy , but it is at least possible to plan in terms of the uses to which the energy must be put . |
| 8 | By this means it is also possible to plan in advance approximately how much of each crop will be grown to meet your needs . |
| 9 | ( 3C ) In subsection 3A ( above ) " landlord " , in relation to a residential occupier of any premises , means the person who , but for — ( a ) the residential occupier 's right to remain in occupation of the premises , or |
| 10 | If the unreasonableness produces voidness that means that so far as the law is concerned the clause has never existed : it may well then be possible to claim in tort for the restitution of money or goods although no specific action can be brought on the basis of the contractual force of the clause . |
| 11 | In this way , if caught , the smugglers had little to lose in way of investment , it also made the job of our investigators more difficult , especially when often a foreign national would charter a UK vessel . |
| 12 | He learnt one thing : ‘ that to paint in watercolour is far more difficult than it looks . ’ |
| 13 | Technically , unless accepted by the Speaker , a resignation from the Assembly became operative only if approved by the Assembly as a whole , which was due to remain in recess until September . |
| 14 | However , the register , classifying the remainder of the country 's 36,000,000 people , only 4,500,000 of them white , was due to remain in force until the agreement of an eventual new constitution which , de Klerk told parliament , was " within our reach within a few years " . |
| 15 | The expulsion , due to remain in force for six years , followed weeks of bitter political in-fighting during which Singh and his supporters were accused of having made unauthorized contacts with sections of Congress ( I ) . |
| 16 | Jackson is due to perform in Taipei tomorrow and Monday . |
| 17 | The inner Cabinet was to co-ordinate the work of three groups , chaired respectively by the Labour , Industry and Foreign Ministers , which were due to report in April on social issues , the economy ( including nuclear policy ) , and foreign and security issues . |
| 18 | The commission , due to report in June , was prompted by a rash of miscarriages of justice against supposed IRA terrorists . |
| 19 | It would , for example , take more than that to see in detail its museums and art galleries , for Winterthur is world famous as an arts centre , a town which has been lucky in its collectors and benefactors . |
| 20 | I think its possible to fall in love with the same person more than once , you fall in love with them and you get married for that as well as other reasons perhaps , and then you have children and you hardly see them really for the next ten years , at least this is what every one sort of understands and then and then erm and then when you have more time again you can fall in love all over again with exactly the same person , I think this happens to lots of people , which also does n't happen to a lot of people so you have n't |
| 21 | I thought — Oh , I was confused , I suppose , not quite believing it was possible to fall in love so swiftly . |
| 22 | Accordingly , it is usual to find in partnership agreements some reference to possible dissolution ( Clause 27 ) . |
| 23 | The tenor of his argument was that the Parliament due to meet in February 1545 could not provide enough money in time . |
| 24 | The National Assembly , due to meet in July , is to draft a new constitution , the main aim of which will be to shift the blame for future mistakes from the party to the state apparatus . |
| 25 | Legislative elections were held in November 1991 ; the legislature was due to meet in January 1992 to elect a new government . |
| 26 | Spain , Italy , France , Portugal and the five Maghreb states ( Algeria , Libya , Mauritania , Morocco and Tunisia ) were due to meet in Rome on Oct. 10 to formulate a common CSCM proposal . |
| 27 | The two sides were due to meet in Yaoundé to discuss the issue in August . |
| 28 | I left him as usual to work in peace all day , certain that his reproachful silence which accompanied our mealtimes would lift at night . |
| 29 | In Lewis it is usual to work in pairs after the bank has been prepared by removing a width of turf . |
| 30 | During the first year of life weight gain is due to increase in size of fat cells , but from 12 to 18 months increase in weight is due primarily to an increase in fat cell number ( Knittle et al . |