Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Single lines of plants are preferable to double staggered rows for ease of weeding and hoeing . |
| 2 | It is in perfect order and as I am due to take early retirement I am looking forward to spending many hours in its arms . |
| 3 | The implication of all this is that large numbers of firms are unnecessary to achieve economic efficiency , and so it is equally possible for oligopolies to attain an efficient allocation of resources . |
| 4 | Sandtoft 's natural red Old English clay pantiles have been used to roof new offices of BP Exploration near Newark in Nottinghamshire . |
| 5 | It is one of four units run by the agency , which comes under the Department of Social Security , which are due to close next month . |
| 6 | Its fabrication skills will be called on for later iterations of the chip , the 0.5 micron 603 , the 604 and the 300 Specmark-to-500 Specmark 620 , all of which are due to arrive next year . |
| 7 | The first inmates are due to arrive next month , and they 'll benefit from some of the best facilitites in Europe . |
| 8 | The first inmates are due to arrive next month , and they 'll benefit from some of the best facilitites in Europe . |
| 9 | Well I must stop now as the V.C.s are due to arrive any minute . |
| 10 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 11 | Pre-1974 ( Local Government re-organization ) Local Acts are due to expire 31st December , 1979 in Metropolitan areas and 31st December , 1984 elsewhere . |
| 12 | Optimism is highest among members of the Royal Scots — the world 's oldest infantry regiment , which received the lion 's share of medals for bravery in the Gulf War — and the King 's Own Scottish Borderers , which are due to become one regiment in 1994 . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp 's final R-series RISC-based Ultrix machines are due to ship next month . |
| 14 | Digital Equipment Corp 's final Mips-based Ultrix machines are due to ship next month . |
| 15 | Over 16 million different colours are possible using eight-bit representation for the three additive primary colours since any value in the range 0–255 inclusive can be selected for any of the three memory banks . |
| 16 | Very high storage rates are possible using this type of technology . |
| 17 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 18 | Tactile exhibitions help blind people enjoy the magic of sculpture , and theatres like Show of Hands encourage those who are deaf to enjoy live theatre like everyone else . |
| 19 | It is not possible for those who are weak to apply this soul force for it makes great demands on those who would use it . |
| 20 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 21 | An RAF base which had been due to close next year as part of the Government 's defence cuts is stay open and be taken over by the army . |
| 22 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 23 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 24 | As a result , Ter-Petrosyan announced on Aug. 9 that the Soviet authorities had agreed to extend the deadline for militias to surrender ( it had been due to expire that day ) , and that the Armenian authorities should handle disarming the militias without interference by Soviet forces ( reportedly at Bakatin 's request , Gorbachev issued a decree on Aug. 11 from his holiday retreat in the Crimea extending the deadline for two months ) . |
| 25 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 26 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 27 | In the present study , it has not been possible to create equal size-classes of productivity values , for the purposes of preparing such rankings . |
| 28 | In 1750 , although Pomeranian Słupsk had already become German Stolp , it had been possible to say that east of a line drawn from the tiny Pomeranian fishing hamlet of Rowy to the hamlet of Tuchomie , Polish or various Slav dialects were spoken . |
| 29 | Indeed , it could be argued that it would not have been possible to allow greater competition without changes in regulation to counteract the increased levels of risk that comes with more intense competition . |
| 30 | It has not been possible to take one building off this list in the intervening six years . |