Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are right to impose a timetable at the start of the Committee stage to ensure that all parts of the Bill are properly dealt with . |
| 2 | But I am due to take a trip to the Indian Ocean shortly where I hope to go swimming in a warmer sea ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | England are due to spend a fortnight in Sri Lanka next March , playing a Test and two one-day internationals . |
| 5 | The matter could conceivably be overlooked : either if ( instead of from your last employer ) , you are due to get a pension from an earlier employer ; or if you will only be receiving a State pension — and not a company pension in addition . |
| 6 | The unrest has claimed more than 200 lives across the country so far , and yesterday saw a riot by 10,000 in Bombay where Graham Gooch 's men are due to play a Test in the New Year . |
| 7 | England are due to play a friendly in Dublin on March 28 and even before the draw Lansdowne Road was assured of a sell-out . |
| 8 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 9 | The controversial Chesterfield MP had been due to give a lecture at Queen 's University this evening on the future of British politics . |
| 10 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 11 | In a circular yesterday , the company said it had not been possible to arrange a refinancing on conventional terms . |
| 12 | It had been possible to board a steamer for Norway at Port Dundas . |
| 13 | And over the years it 's been possible to identify a number of factors produced by these bacteria that seem to make sense in terms of the pathology and the conditions . |
| 14 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
| 15 | From this it might have been possible to develop a philosophy in which humankind had a responsibility towards the other species with which we share the earth . |
| 16 | It has not been possible to produce a diagram modelling our use of information services — it would have required at least four dimensions to deal with the different aspects . |
| 17 | It has not been possible to present a report to this month 's Finance Committee due to the timing of the recovery action and the Committee date . |
| 18 | CITIES targeted by the Government are each to have a minister from a team of nine headed by the Inner Cities Minister , Mr David Hunt , to advise them on regenerating the urban environment They will work with City Action Teams and Inner City Task Forces already set up , Mr Hunt yesterday told a London conference , Business in the Cities . |
| 19 | ‘ His age is not a problem because I 've never been afraid to take a gamble on players and he could give us another option . ’ |
| 20 | And if enough of us are prepared to give a donation — just a proportion of what we spend on our own families and friends at Christmas — we can reach that precious goal of Universal Child Immunisation by the end of 1990 . |
| 21 | Other countries are prepared to give a commitment that they will move to a single currency without reference back to their domestic Parliaments . |
| 22 | ABOVE , INSET Unless you are prepared to spend a lot of time grooming your dog , do not choose a breed such as the Afghan Hound . |
| 23 | PAL can be used to broadcast wide-screen pictures ( for display in cinema-screen shape on a new kind of set ) only if viewers with existing receivers are prepared to tolerate a picture like a letterbox . |
| 24 | THE LIBERAL Democrats are prepared to sustain a minority Tory Government in power without any promise on electoral reform in order to put Labour under pressure to do a deal , senior party advisors said yesterday . |
| 25 | It ignores , however , the fact that human beings do not require formal textual markers before they are prepared to interpret a text . |
| 26 | But now we are happy to be able to announce that , at last , we understand that Scot Rail and British Rail are prepared to remove a seat to allow a wheelchair position in the main carriage even though the wheelchair will be unsecured . |
| 27 | We are prepared to adopt a system that is a little more complicated , provided that it is fairer and responds more to the wishes of the British public . |
| 28 | A second group are the adopters who are prepared to adopt a child of two black parents or a child of one white and one black parent , and to accept the child as he or she is , recognising the difference in racial and cultural origin . |
| 29 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 30 | It is also a practical answer to the difficulties of continuing to maintain and staff isolated institutions in an age when few people are prepared to make a career in residential work . |