Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We are sorry to announce the sad demise of Leeds United football club , who died tragically yesterday in unforseen circumstances .
2 If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty
3 The Government are right to seek a twin-track approach whereby we retain the essential strength and security of NATO while developing a new role for the Western European Union .
4 I think that they are right to want a sufficient number of qualified paediatric specialists in the hospital .
5 This suggests that we are right to make a powerful link between evangelism and church planting .
6 We are right to reward the living ones with public lending rights .
7 CPU2 also features on the existing multiprocessor SuperSparc models 450 , 750 and and 752 , all of which are upgradable to use the new Cypress Semiconductor Corp HyperSparc chips .
8 All are due to visit the Solar System in the mid-1990s .
9 ‘ We are due to take the Norwegian striker Frank Strandli from IK Start when problems over a work permit are sorted out , there are some promising young players coming through and we should have key men David Batty and Mel Sterland back after injury soon . ’
10 Only newly-appointed and promoted staff are due to receive the new contracts which according to the Institute 's NATFHE chairman , Denis Clinton , has led to the problem of new staff being appointed but not given contracts .
11 The report that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State produced last week revealed that this year we are due to treat an extra 250,000 patients ; we are cutting the number of long ’ waiters ’ , and creating a service that is responsive to patient needs .
12 Next month the Russian research Institute of Information Technologies and the firm ArgusSoft are due to open an Open Systems training centre equipped with Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations .
13 Detectives are due to interview the five men later today .
14 Can I just make the point that we are due to pay the next erm , annual subscription for this guarantee .
15 Representatives of the steering group are due to meet the Labour-controlled council 's insurers , Municipal Mutual , next month to negotiate the final details of the compensation agreement .
16 Pakistan are due to end a short tour here on January 8 and we have no international cricket scheduled then until the end of February , when Australia arrive here .
17 It is likely that this will change as LaserGo , the authors of GoScript , are due to introduce a special card which will contain its own processor and memory capable of running the program .
18 Democracy negotiators are due to start a two-day meeting in Johannesburg on 1 April in a fresh bid to thrash out terms for transition to democracy after more than 300 years of white rule .
19 Provenance studies of sandstone sequences are possible using the modal composition plus maturity indicators ( Fig. 5.10 ; Table 5.5 ) ( Valloni & maynard , 1981 ; Dickinson , 1985 ; Valloni , 1985 ) .
20 The general conclusions are that to reduce the negative side-effects of intergroup competition , an organization would need to :
21 He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert .
22 When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years .
23 Once again , because the needs of each group in the departments varied considerably it would not have been cost-effective to consider a general global use of DIP systems .
24 But there is a mysterious group of British engineers , who are not allowed to let us know what they 're doing — I suppose they are helping the Chinese build a factory or something — anyway , it has been refreshing to hear a homely Lancs. accent at the next table .
25 It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met .
26 While useful , I think it would have been preferable to show the entire sentence , but you can at least note the identified points and refer to the main body of text later .
27 He was released yesterday from Pentonville prison where he had been due to serve a 112-day sentence for failing to pay more than £10,000 in maintenance arrears to estranged wife Becky .
28 A proposal by Milosevic that the congress should continue without the Slovene delegation was rejected , and in the early hours of Jan. 23 Pancevski finally declared that the session , which had been due to adopt the full congress declaration and resolutions on the congress debate , as well as elect a new party leadership , had been adjourned .
29 There are a number of variables that can be studied now by noting only each occurrence , but not each non-occurrence , since it has not yet been possible to close the possible set of variants [ my emphasis ] .
30 Elegant and closely-analyzed work has shown that , formed by photolysis of , probably contains a semi-bridging carbonyl group ; in the complicated photolysis of , it has been possible to deduce a great deal about the forms of the intermediate and about the photochemical processes by which it is formed and reacts .
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