Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 2 | But defender Keith Proctor has suffered a reaction to his knee injury after playing for the reserves last weekend and is now due to see a specialist . |
| 3 | He is due to see a chiropractor tomorrow and is likely to undergo surgery . |
| 4 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 5 | It might be rash to conclude that all that represents a rejection of radicalism ; better , perhaps , to say that it is the sense of radicalism itself that changed . |
| 6 | Robbins ( 1963 ) presented dual-subject courses ( joint honours , combined studies , etc. ) as a variant on the single-subject pattern for those students who do not want such a specialized higher education , but that represents a university view , and a dated one at that . |
| 7 | That represents a growth rate of 1,000% ! |
| 8 | That represents a growth of expenditure in those sectors of roughly 80 per cent . |
| 9 | In real terms , that represents an increase of 2.4 per cent . |
| 10 | Even for Holland , that represents an area only twice the size of Schipol airport . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it may be possible to acquire a company ( D Ltd ) with surplus FII , which would be interposed between A Ltd and C Ltd . |
| 12 | Is it possible to acquire a rider 's insurance only and if so , could you suggest which insurance would be best ? |
| 13 | ‘ My betrothed asked a question , ’ Philippa demanded . |
| 14 | Insurance , building societies , unit trusts , banks have each developed an ombudsman scheme . |
| 15 | As well as being the sort of motion that brings local government into disrepute , I also believe that this is the sort of motion that , that displays a lack of tolerance that should concern us all . |
| 16 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 17 | To add to my anxieties about the early start , my husband and I were due to attend a charity casino evening in Kenilworth on the Saturday night , an event which I knew would continue into the early hours . |
| 18 | She is due to attend a service for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London , with a reception after at St James 's Palace . |
| 19 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 20 | Er if we attended if if we were due to attend a meeting for example in in in Derby , er er twenty mile away ? |
| 21 | In only the second week of his month on loan from Newcastle , the 30-year old helped earn a point with his fourth goal for the Sky Blues . |
| 22 | That made a total of six people trying to sell me something . |
| 23 | Now , I wonder if that made a difference . |
| 24 | That made a difference . |
| 25 | They maybe should have been booked for continuing to put the ball in the net … aswell as Lukic maybe not trying to save ( as if that made a difference ; - ) The Wallace incident at maine rd however is a different story . |
| 26 | The conventional method of recording orchestras was to place microphones throughout the ensemble ; Fine contended that given a hall with excellent acoustic properties , a single ultra-sensitive microphone should be capable of capturing the sound of a symphony orchestra with unprecedented clarity , balance and definition . |
| 27 | Well I think that when I said that I think that given a man and a woman of equal qualifications I was assuming that that had been taken into account . |
| 28 | My aim in this article is to show that given a relevance theoretic approach to utterance interpretation , it is possible to develop a better understanding of what some of these so-called apposition markers indicate . |
| 29 | They start to overlap with each other and that produces an overall , general curvature . ’ |
| 30 | There must be an iterative movement between effects of each of the two axes , and a set of matrices , each reflecting a stage of this process , will be necessary to analyse this process . |