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

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1 ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died .
2 The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer .
3 Tennant succeeds Lord Carrington who is due to retire after a five-year term as Chairman of Christie 's International next May .
4 While Max Warren is right to caution against an obsessive preoccupation with numbers , I believe that he overstates the case when he is so dismissive of all quantity measurement .
5 Of course there is an argument for substitution , and other projects have used such a method ( see below ) ; it is often suggested for example that it is particularly hard for the elderly mentally frail to cope with a variety of different service-providers .
6 If none is available , it may be possible to arrange for a specialist physiotherapist to visit the hospital department to see the patient and suggest appropriate treatment lines to the physiotherapist there .
7 However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge .
8 The 21-year-old sprinter , who failed a pre-Games drugs test in July , is due to appeal to an independent tribunal within the next few weeks against his four-year ban imposed by the British Athletic Federation .
9 The owner was yesterday due to appeal against a county court decision granting possession to Darlington Borough Council .
10 Then , once the owner realizes that the building is of value , it may be possible to agree on a constructive course of action .
11 Mr Gordon Walker told The Bookseller he regretted that it had not proved possible to agree on a ‘ suitable continuing role for Felicity ’ .
12 If ever it were possible to agree upon a scheme of regional government , then there might be a basis for regional representation , but attempts at this have so far failed .
13 The first is whether it is possible to agree upon a generic curriculum , based on a set of headings or topics , which may be treated quite differently by those in different disciplines ( e.g. typographers , computer scientists ) .
14 on the one hand to provide a platform for asserting labor 's right to contend on an equal footing with capital but , on the other hand , to limit the very capacity to engage in militant confrontation .
15 It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised .
16 The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media .
17 I still have grave doubts as to whether it is right to go for a single currency , fixed exchange rates and the whole of that considerable abdication of political sovereignty .
18 Folk that maybe would have been shy to go to a
19 While it remained possible to cling to a sense of the " vital ambitions " of the discipline , " human and institutional frailties " were seen as likely to inhibit the achievement of such ambitions .
20 Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level .
21 It is possible to appeal against a decision to transfer proceedings back to the family proceedings court ( The Children ( Allocation of Proceedings ) ( Appeals ) Order 1991 ( SI No 1801 , art 2 ) ) .
22 Where proceedings are commenced in the wrong court or transferred in contravention of the APO they are not rendered invalid and it is not possible to appeal against a final order on this basis alone ( APO , art 21 ) .
23 It is also possible to appeal against an interim order under s94(1) ( see Chapter 7 ) or apply for discharge under s39 as discussed at 8 below .
24 Merchant bank Where the transaction is a private one and does not involve the issue of securities it may be possible to proceed without a merchant bank , although , under the FSA , an authorised person will be needed to approve the offer document .
25 It is also possible to continue as a graduate without eh thought occurring .
26 Six months on from ICL 's decision to introduce a no smoking at work policy at its Reading office block , it is still possible to indulge in an on-site nicotine fix .
27 Although GPs can arrange for the test to be done , it is almost always preferable to go to a STD clinic .
28 Using this diagram , it is possible to see at a glance the relationship of one context to the rest of the site .
29 It is possible to see in a catalogue of this sort the origins of the very exact nomenclature found in many of Mary Leapor 's landscape descriptions ( see chapter three below ) .
30 Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ?
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