Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I must stop now as the V.C.s are due to arrive any minute . |
| 2 | Two working parties are due to report this summer on the issue . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 6 | ‘ I see Dr Nichols would have been due to cover this evening 's surgery anyway . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As described earlier , it has not been possible to measure this peak in the case of citations to Scottish geological theses , because of the small numbers of individual citations recorded , and because of the large spread of the citation period for these works . |
| 11 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 12 | Felids produce the greatest amount of damage , so great that it has not been possible to obtain any bone samples large enough to quantify . |
| 13 | Although it might have been possible to attempt some form of categorisation of the types of detail which were recalled at different risk levels , it is not clear that the data from this study are really powerful enough to support such an analysis . |
| 14 | Yeah , s s surely the , the point is , we 'd have booked another comedian if it had been possible to book another comedian at that time , which it obviously was n't . |
| 15 | But the test itself was also changed , from gross indecency , which like the deprave-and-corrupt test had been adequate to catch most child pornography , to the lesser test of indecency , the precise meaning of which is left to the jury to assess according to their own standards of propriety for children or young people . |
| 16 | Provided both are prepared to give some ground it is possible to sort out roles afresh and to plan new patterns for the marriage . |
| 17 | Conference , I believe that we can succeed if you are prepared to support this motion and I will leave you with this point . |
| 18 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 19 | Lots of men I know are prepared to take some time ensuring their children 's food is fresh and safe , once they understand the issues . ’ |
| 20 | But looking at the whole thing from a higher perspective , it seems to me that the Leeds management may be thinking that we are not going to win the championship this season or at least they are prepared to wait another year to have a go . |
| 21 | If a customer wants to spend time deciding on a holiday we are prepared to spend that time . |
| 22 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 23 | She says the volunteers who answer the phone are prepared to deal any problem a child contacts them with , no matter how small it may seem . |
| 24 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 25 | Detectives are horrified the men are prepared to use such violence for a comparatively small sum . |
| 26 | September , when the landscape is still green , can be very nice if you are prepared to risk some rain . |
| 27 | Alan Calladine added : ‘ We class ourselves as a working railway museum and are prepared to develop any aspect of the railway scene . |
| 28 | He says that some bank lenders and creditors have already indicated they are prepared to lend more money to the company . |
| 29 | Many practitioners still feel that a normal menstrual blood loss measurement does not affect their management , provided that the patient 's quality of life is affected , despite evidence that patients with normal measurements are prepared to forego any treatment . |
| 30 | It is therefore fair to say that , as a general rule , the courts are prepared to imply some degree of mobility into every contract of employment but this is likely to be limited unless the nature of the job or work performed by the employee is one where mobility would be recognised by both sides as being essential to the job . |