Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 3 | She is due to attend a service for the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London , with a reception after at St James 's Palace . |
| 4 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 5 | Er if we attended if if we were due to attend a meeting for example in in in Derby , er er twenty mile away ? |
| 6 | It is possible to arrange a sentence in different ways , to emphasise different aspects of the action it describes . |
| 7 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 8 | The interviews were designed to collect basic biographical details relating to the age , sex , employment profile , housing conditions , etc. , of the user ; to outline the characteristics of the user 's ‘ drug career ’ so as to construct a typology of users and to assess whether there was any particular stage in a given career where it would be possible to target a user for treatment or intervention ; and , to ask users to assess their experience of local statutory and voluntary drugs services . |
| 9 | In discussions with the child it is often possible to plan a course of work to meet the individual 's needs so that the learning process is negotiated rather than dictated . |
| 10 | The princess was due to plant a tree at the centre . |
| 11 | On making enquiries , it seems that there are no records of an earlier gallery here , but it is pleasant to see a reminder of bygone days amongst the new shops in the restoration of this attractive yard . |
| 12 | Before he could say anything Mrs Woodward exclaimed ‘ Is n't it strange to see a train at this time of night ? ’ |
| 13 | These would probably have been deposited at different times , and the detailed examination of their contents will , in theory , reveal a progression of different parts of a coinage ; if one or more of these parts can be attached to an absolute date , it should be possible to estimate a date for the other parts in the progression or sequence . |
| 14 | His room mate , who was considerably older , was due to preach a sermon at St Paul 's Cathedral but fell ill . |
| 15 | They 're grateful to see a lot of the ‘ deadwood at the top ’ removed , ticking off long-time retainers like the number two guy Jack Smith , senior vice president of operations , once considered a possible Olsen successor , Jay Atlas , vice president for US channels and Don Zereski , once US area vice president . |
| 16 | In horses , although a history of donkey contact and clinical signs may be suggestive of D. arnfieldi infection , it is often not possible to confirm a diagnosis by demonstrating larvae in the faeces . |
| 17 | For the Turks have always hoped that the war would be prolonged until both sides were too exhausted to remain a menace to anybody . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 19 | It is possible to indulge a passion for military history , bridge , or photography in beautiful surroundings thousands of miles from home , with resident experts as guides and teachers . |
| 20 | He is also cruel and rapacious when not faced with opposition : he has the priest Anastasius buried alive to extort a charter from him . |
| 21 | In addition it should be possible to conduct a survey of the surrounding sea bed to prospect for wreckage or other surviving finds . |
| 22 | If it is not possible to attend a back to nursing course there are various distance learning packages available which can be studied successfully at home . |
| 23 | On examining the pattern of soiling it was possible to see a correlation between the times the parents had a build-up of tension about a difference of opinion and the times David began to retain his faeces . |
| 24 | The Zoo is unique amongst British zoos because of its hilltop setting , and is one of the most beautifully situated in the whole of Europe , where it is possible to see a variety of birds , animals and reptiles , in their natural settings . |
| 25 | And from its summit it is entirely possible to see a stretch of water which — whether to a sixteenth-century viewer innocent of the details of geography , or to a well-versed wanderer five centuries later — could only be an ocean . |
| 26 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |
| 27 | So the medical profession , in the future as in the past , must bear the responsibility unless it is possible to obtain a decision from the courts . |
| 28 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 29 | In the event of damage caused during a riot , it is essential that such claims are dealt with immediately as it is possible to obtain a recovery against the local Police authority . |
| 30 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |