Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of five guests are due to arrive at 9.30 p.m . |
| 2 | The Elgin area trials are due to continue until 31 March . |
| 3 | Digital cordless telephone services — telepoint — are about to start in the UK , and low cost personal communications networks are due to begin in 1992 or 1993 . |
| 4 | Deliveries are due to start in four years . |
| 5 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 6 | The IBOA Waterford Area Outing had been due to start at 10 . |
| 7 | There is a point in this suggestion , but we can not see it unless we are careful to distinguish between two kinds of consistency a lawmaker might seek : consistency in strategy and consistency in principle . |
| 8 | But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage . |
| 9 | ‘ I am fortunate to live on one of the clouds in his paintings , with the art I love so much ’ |
| 10 | I am fortunate to live on one of the clouds in his paintings , with the art I love so much ’ . |
| 11 | By the end of the century oil and gas are likely to account for 20–25 per cent of GNP . |
| 12 | From the point of view of social network studies , sex differences in language use are likely to arise from two sources . |
| 13 | Details of the programme have not yet been decided but are likely to fall into five main areas of research : Information Processing Systems and Software ; Advanced Home and Business Systems and Peripherals ; Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering ; Microelectronics ; and Basic research Actions . |
| 14 | Basically , the head teacher must consider it inappropriate for the time being for the pupil to follow the National Curriculum and that either ( 1 ) circumstances giving rise to that opinion are likely to change within six months or ( 2 ) that the pupil may have special educational needs requiring modification of the National Curriculum and temporary exception is necessary while those needs are assessed . |
| 15 | Fields already declared commercial are likely to produce at 100,000 barrels per day ( 5 million tonnes ) and it is predicted that by 1990 the Netherlands could be meeting some 20% of its oil requirements . |
| 16 | Opt-outs are supposed to end in 1996 , when eastern Germany joins the western system of labour contracts . |
| 17 | ‘ Whereas the lives of humans , and other linear races in the cosmos , are constrained to four dimensions , we are privileged to move through seven . ’ |
| 18 | As degree of opacity diminishes , we approach the somewhat indeterminate transitional zone between opacity and transparency : indeed , some of the irreversible binominals are hard to categorise as one or the other : salt and vinegar ( in chip-shop parlance ) , soap and water , etc . |
| 19 | By Friday , after four days of being enthused at , confused , intrigued and occasionally feeling rather excited , the 800 delegates must have been glad to think of one computerised future that was just different rather than scary . |
| 20 | This difference in marital status increases with age ; for those aged over 75 61 per cent of men are married compared with 21 per cent of women ( figure 2.2 ) . |
| 21 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 22 | Thus wild plants are probably lucky to turn more than about one per cent of the solar energy that bathes them , into organic molecules ; and even agricultural crops , bred for efficiency and well fed , are unlikely to get above five per cent . |
| 23 | Mr Gordon Brown , 41 , the trade and industry spokesman , and Mr Tony Blair , 39 , employment spokesman , must be considered contenders , though they are unlikely to run against one another . |
| 24 | Plasmids that do not carry fertility genes are unable to move from one bacterium to another , but they can be mobilised by plasmids which do have them . |
| 25 | Sometimes the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service ‘ Meals-on-wheels ’ service can help if old people can not prepare food for themselves and are unable to get to one of the many luncheon clubs they run . |
| 26 | The children , via the network , are able to learn about one another and develop their understanding of global issues through their exchange of messages on the system . |
| 27 | Of course , the real crux of the matter is the question of how well people are able to balance against one another several different sets of figures relating to credit cost . |
| 28 | A group is any number of people who are able to interact with one another , are psychologically aware of each other , and who perceive and are perceived as being members of a team . |
| 29 | Most of my clients , who have turnovers of between £1m and £40m pa , are able to register within 6–9 months of the date of the first meeting have an initial consultancy period of 16 weeks ( most clients are subsidised by DTI ) . |
| 30 | All the difficulty sprang from high rents ; for his own farm , the landlord now paid four times more than he had twenty years ago , and he found this unfair : he would have been happy to go from five pounds a year to ten , but not to twenty . |