Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerations like these make scientists feel that they are right to take a philosophically realist view of the results of their researches ; to suppose that they are finding out the way things are . |
| 2 | They are right to impose a timetable at the start of the Committee stage to ensure that all parts of the Bill are properly dealt with . |
| 3 | The Government are right to seek a twin-track approach whereby we retain the essential strength and security of NATO while developing a new role for the Western European Union . |
| 4 | I think that they are right to want a sufficient number of qualified paediatric specialists in the hospital . |
| 5 | This suggests that we are right to make a powerful link between evangelism and church planting . |
| 6 | But I am due to take a trip to the Indian Ocean shortly where I hope to go swimming in a warmer sea ! |
| 7 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | England are due to spend a fortnight in Sri Lanka next March , playing a Test and two one-day internationals . |
| 10 | The matter could conceivably be overlooked : either if ( instead of from your last employer ) , you are due to get a pension from an earlier employer ; or if you will only be receiving a State pension — and not a company pension in addition . |
| 11 | Representatives are due to elect a completely new central committee and politburo , but the party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , suggested yesterday that such ‘ Stalinist institutions ’ would perhaps no longer be required if the SED was transformed into a ‘ truly democratic party ’ . |
| 12 | Representatives are due to elect a completely new central committee and politburo , but the party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , suggested yesterday that such ‘ Stalinist institutions ’ would perhaps no longer be required if the SED was transformed into a ‘ truly democratic party ’ . |
| 13 | Representatives are due to elect a completely new central committee and politburo , but the party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , suggested yesterday that such ‘ Stalinist institutions ’ would perhaps no longer be required if the SED was transformed into a ‘ truly democratic party ’ . |
| 14 | England are due to play a friendly in Dublin on March 28 and even before the draw Lansdowne Road was assured of a sell-out . |
| 15 | The unrest has claimed more than 200 lives across the country so far , and yesterday saw a riot by 10,000 in Bombay where Graham Gooch 's men are due to play a Test in the New Year . |
| 16 | Pakistan are due to end a short tour here on January 8 and we have no international cricket scheduled then until the end of February , when Australia arrive here . |
| 17 | It is likely that this will change as LaserGo , the authors of GoScript , are due to introduce a special card which will contain its own processor and memory capable of running the program . |
| 18 | Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule . |
| 19 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 20 | Once again , because the needs of each group in the departments varied considerably it would not have been cost-effective to consider a general global use of DIP systems . |
| 21 | But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table . |
| 22 | He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The controversial Chesterfield MP had been due to give a lecture at Queen 's University this evening on the future of British politics . |
| 25 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 26 | Elegant and closely-analyzed work has shown that , formed by photolysis of , probably contains a semi-bridging carbonyl group ; in the complicated photolysis of , it has been possible to deduce a great deal about the forms of the intermediate and about the photochemical processes by which it is formed and reacts . |
| 27 | As a consequence , it has only been possible to describe a few of the phenomena which have been observed . |
| 28 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 29 | It had been possible to board a steamer for Norway at Port Dundas . |
| 30 | Ten years earlier at the time of the Younger Report , it had been possible to compile a rough estimate of the number of computer installations ; all thoughts were then on the powerful centralised main-frame equipment which had dominated the technology till then . |