Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But about a quarter of that , comprising the older Magnox stations , was due to retire during the 1990s . |
| 2 | The new sales division is headed by Paul Hutchinson as director of sales ( David Marten is due to retire in the near future ) and John Mohin has been appointed sales manager , responsible for UK sales operations , assisted by Diane Best and Michael Trotter as regional sales managers . |
| 3 | Although the excavations are not yet wholly complete , many hectares of the town have now been revealed to the light of day , and it is now possible to stroll along the abandoned streets once more with the remains of shops , houses and villas on either side . |
| 4 | I am sorry that the Minister has not found it possible to agree with the reasonable amendment . |
| 5 | It was still perfectly possible to remain on the international cocktail circuit . |
| 6 | Home Secretary , Kenneth Baker has said he does not now believe it would be right to continue with the proposed closures because of the entirely unacceptable numbers of prisoners held in police cells . |
| 7 | But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea . |
| 8 | As such there is little to report since the last European briefing . |
| 9 | According to him , it was possible to go to the fair and be back in Roscommon before dark . |
| 10 | But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions . |
| 11 | By catching the Chamden-London Inter-City train it is possible to go from the Second Division to the Third and back again on this unequalled trip . |
| 12 | You either turn left to go to one side of Petswood or right to go to the other side of Petswood . |
| 13 | Is it right to see in the big reduction in disconnections signs of a different attitude on the part of the electricity companies to their customers and signs of better management since the companies were privatised , and is there scope for further improvement in this respect ? |
| 14 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 15 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 16 | It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) . |
| 17 | Although pricing has not yet been decided , it will be kept low to appeal to the mass market . |
| 18 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 19 | The death certificates will not read — ‘ victim of an industrial dispute ’ or ‘ death due to neglect of the National Health Service ’ . |
| 20 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 21 | He is not against the National Curriculum , and accepts O-levels needed updating , but feels the new system does little to indicate to the ordinary man in the street what is going on . |
| 22 | He no longer believed that it was possible to struggle against the cruel forces of capitalist wealth . |
| 23 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 24 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
| 25 | Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on . |
| 26 | In February she is due to appear in the networked This Sunday . |
| 27 | ‘ to fall within the principle , not only ( 1 ) must there be a necessity to act when it is not practicable to communicate with the assisted person , but also ( 2 ) the action taken must be such as a reasonable person would in all the circumstances take , acting in the best interests of the assisted person . |
| 28 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 29 | As a QANTAS flight was due to come through the following day , they hoped that Koepang W/T would be on the air before their arrival at Timor . |
| 30 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |