Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [to-vb] the [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 | We are right to reward the living ones with public lending rights . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All are due to visit the Solar System in the mid-1990s . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Detectives are due to interview the five men later today . |
| 9 | Can I just make the point that we are due to pay the next erm , annual subscription for this guarantee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 18 | It has been possible to reconstruct the complete instrument , which was a brass portable sundial with a geared calendar that showed the approximate shape of the moon and its age in days and may also have shown its position and that of the sun in the zodiac . |
| 19 | By and large the original exhibition at Edinburgh has been well adapted to the diverse spaces at Kenwood , even if it has not been possible to make the large plaster reconstruction model , lent by the Museo della Civiltà Romana , Rome , still the focal centre of the show . |
| 20 | Following its purification it has been possible to study the biological properties of platelet-derived growth factor . |
| 21 | If it had been possible to study the whole country cheaply and in sufficient detail they would have done so . |
| 22 | It has not been possible to determine the non-submission rate for Scottish geology , but discussions with senior staff suggest that the rate is not as high as in other disciplines . |
| 23 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 24 | Ockleton , true to his academic training , had been disposed to dismiss the very idea of such a connection . |
| 25 | That is why I was especially pleased to hear that the Government are prepared to allocate the necessary funds . |
| 26 | They know what the problems are and they are prepared to take the controversial and difficult decisions . |
| 27 | This project examines some of the circumstances in which young children are prepared to abandon the implicit working assumption that the speaker 's intended meaning can be identified on the basis of the verbal message given . |
| 28 | It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary . |
| 29 | When it comes to the middle of the night , only one in 10 fathers are prepared to leave the cosy comfort of their quilt . |
| 30 | Now it 's the oldest and hardest to find unless you are prepared to pay the ridiculous prices of independent fashion shops who 've searched the warehouses of middle America for anything that can be labelled ‘ old school ’ . |