Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [adj] [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tantalising mixture of talent is due to appear at the Town Hall in Oxford on Friday . |
| 2 | Such a transfer is difficult to achieve at the best of times . |
| 3 | It should be possible to develop a system of categories whereby management is able to state at what grade of consultation a certain issue will be dealt with . |
| 4 | And the TCCB disciplinary committee is due to meet at the weekend to decide whether to increase Lamb 's punishment for the awful crime of failing to get his comments cleared by Lord 's before they were published in the Mirror . |
| 5 | A customer capable of signing a cheque for £100,000 is unlikely to balk at the extra £10,000 or so , and Aston 's aberrant mid-'80s profitability was due in no small part to the fact that Gauntlett made his car more expensive , in real terms , than it has ever been . |
| 6 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 7 | That is , the child is pre-programmed to arrive at this sort of representation of his mother tongue rather than any of the many other mathematically possible kinds . |
| 8 | For example , if the adult holds an object , such as a doll , in the child 's line of gaze , the child is likely to look at the object and then immediately glance at the adult 's face to check that they are looking at the same thing . |
| 9 | Children love to discover that they can ‘ do ’ something new , and through the provision that is made and suggestions that are offered , each child is able to succeed at his own level . |
| 10 | And a spokeswoman for trainer Toby Balding confirmed : ‘ Morley Street is likely to run at this stage . ’ |
| 11 | If a conference is due to start at 9.30am , be there at 6.30am . |
| 12 | Even now , with the world economy slack and poorer Asian countries emerging as rivals for foreign investment , Thailand is likely to grow at 7–8% a year for the next few years . |
| 13 | shop is supposed to make at home |
| 14 | With this weekend 's match against Paisley now rendered meaningless , Stokes is likely to promote at least a couple of players from the advanced training group to give them national league experience . |
| 15 | The availability of such services plays a part in whether an old person is able to stay at home . |
| 16 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 17 | The BPIF 's director of employment affairs Andy Brown said : ‘ We have had no indication that the GPMU is prepared to settle at anything close to our final offer . ’ |
| 18 | 2.3 If the Landlord is unable to obtain at a reasonable cost any of the materials referred to in the Building Documents the Landlord may [ ( subject to notifying promptly the Surveyors of its intention to do so ) ] in carrying out the Works substitute for them alternative materials as nearly as may be of the same quality |
| 19 | For the remainder of this century the Canadian economy is likely to grow at approaching 3% per year with energy demand increasing at just over 2% per year . |
| 20 | The UK economy is likely to grow at something approaching 2% per annum for the rest of the century with rate of growth in fuel use far less , at about 0.6% per annum . |
| 21 | ‘ This train is due to arrive at Tunbridge Wells sometime later today , ’ he crackled over the tannoy . |
| 22 | The actual time of the start is difficult to arrive at , and is not important , but whatever the historical facts may be , it can be taken as fairly certain that the misuse of religion had become well established at the time of the advent of Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | The locomotive is due to arrive at Bury by road and make its first appearance at a hastily-organised Great Western Weekend over the weekend of November 14–15 . |
| 24 | Today every able-bodied man is liable to serve at the front — in a war in which casualties are sickeningly high . |
| 25 | Fellow tripper Dave Caley , who also works at Springfields , suggested that to mark her birthday — the one which life is supposed to start at — she should do something special . |
| 26 | The Government is likely to snatch at this vagueness in an attempt to discredit the new image of moderation Labour is keen to promote . |
| 27 | No government is likely to say at this juncture that it regards cars as an environmental menace and intends to reduce their numbers by so many per cent a year . |
| 28 | THE qualifying pattern of the 1995 WORLD CUP is likely to change at the IRB meeting in Wellington , if the proposals worked out by World Cup Director Russ Thomas are accepted . |
| 29 | The impact of recession is likely to feature at this month 's annual meeting of Business in the Community , a charitable body that promotes links between the private sector , government and the community . |
| 30 | The idea of telling a story is important to discuss at this point , because it contains the secret of all good video . |