Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 2 | An earlier decision by the same judge preventing the four from organising or inciting mass pickets at the factory is due to go before three appeal judges next week . |
| 3 | It is possible to cope with one of these legs being shaky and under pressure but not two at the same time . |
| 4 | The Elgin area trials are due to continue until 31 March . |
| 5 | John Shalikashvili was appointed NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe in succession to Gen. John Galvin , who had been in post since 1987 and was due to retire in mid-1992 . |
| 6 | He will replace existing director Donald Main , who is due to retire in 1995 . |
| 7 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 8 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 9 | Crime does not stop at county borders when it is possible to drive through three counties in an hour . |
| 10 | The draft budget for 1993 , presented to the Cortes on Sept. 29 and described by Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga Catalán as the most restrictive budget in 20 years , allowed for a central government spending increase of only 3.7 per cent in real terms ( 2.1 per cent of this allocated to debt servicing ) , with the budget deficit due to fall from 2.6 to 2.3 per cent of GDP ( Pta1,421,100 million — approximately US$13,930 million ) . |
| 11 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 12 | It is not possible to go in two different directions at the same time . |
| 13 | Labour 's electoral college is due to meet on 18 July . |
| 14 | Councillors were due to meet on 25 April to consider the matter — no easy task when hundreds of letters , suggesting numerous solutions , have been sent . |
| 15 | This rulemaking exercise will be undertaken by the preparatory Commission for the ISA and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ( PREPCOM ) , which is due to meet on 15 March in Jamaica . |
| 16 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 18 | So it is particularly refreshing to come across one company that not only recruited its company secretary and main board director when she was four months pregnant , but also waited for almost a year for her to join full time . |
| 19 | With the help of good rigging aids such as trestles and a stand for the fuselage , it is often just possible to rig with two people . |
| 20 | L's utterance in line 45 begins with a comment on the photograph in London English ( " that 's me " ) but after a pause she switches to Creole to comment on V 's photography : " Valerie cut me off there , boy ! " which she follows with a laugh . |
| 21 | The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m . |
| 22 | Apart from the ethical concerns some people feel on this matter there is the pressing issue of the degree to which it is possible to extrapolate from one species to another , especially from non-human species to ourselves . |
| 23 | At Segovia the aqueduct bridge is 2700 feet long and 102 feet high formed with 118 arches constructed in granite blocks without mortar . |
| 24 | For example , a broker might know that one market maker has a strong demand for CDs of six month maturity , but can only find an issuer willing to issue at three months . |
| 25 | He says he will respond by asking for three , as a negotiating position , but is prepared to go to five . |
| 26 | The union wants employers to agree to a specific date for equalising eastern and western wages , though it is willing to wait beyond 1994 . |
| 27 | There was a raw graze across one cheekbone . |
| 28 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 29 | And I remember the day it went from Extended Titling to three three four and it was just three three four , it did n't look as if it had ever been intended to set these lines . |
| 30 | An outsider to consider in the County Championship at attractive odds would be Derbyshire , who are rather over priced at 16–1 with Coral-Ladbrokes for instance go 8–1 . |