Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had arranged for the ‘ leaking ’ of a letter he had circulated to all the delegates due to attend the presidential election in Paris on October 9 . |
| 2 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 3 | These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ . |
| 4 | Is it possible to arrange a different time for the accounts to be returned ? |
| 5 | It 's so refreshing to see a motley crew of urchins , trendies and ravers like Sunscreem making total unself-conscious idiots of themselves on a stage instead of prancing and preening like twats . |
| 6 | It was not possible to compare the 26-way tree , reduced memory tree and trie directly with the dawg because the word lists used in the earlier experiments were no longer available . |
| 7 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 8 | It should be possible to agree a fixed rate repayment for a couple of years , and many companies offer special rates for first time buyers . |
| 9 | The gig sold out months ago and , despite EMF 's claims to be moving away from the teeny audience , Silverfish are forced to open the show a good two hours earlier than normal to accommodate the expected exodus of punters heading for an early bedtime . |
| 10 | But , in my experience , if this is the case although it is possible to plant a new church it will not happen nearly as quickly as it will do if someone can make themselves available full-time . |
| 11 | By building up a good soil structure and providing conditions where all the natural soil flora and fauna can thrive , it is possible to realize the full potential of any piece of land , and to grow on it vigorous , healthy crops and livestock . |
| 12 | If it is not considered appropriate or possible to lodge an early Tender , then once the necessary information or Medical Report is available , the Tender should be lodged as soon as possible thereafter . |
| 13 | If anybody wants to know whether people are right to perform the local duty |
| 14 | Monica is due to hit the big screen in January with the release of Dracula . |
| 15 | It is very pleasant to see a full hall on an inclement evening . |
| 16 | The Most Rev. George Carey , the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior cleric of the Church of England , on May 18 — in the week before he was due make an official visit to the Pope — criticized the Roman Catholic church 's policy on " artificial " methods of contraception , as contained in the Humanae Vitae encyclical of 1968 [ see pp. 24239-41 ] . |
| 17 | It will now seem strange to see a silent Locomotive Shed ( Bldg A22 ) wit hits doors closed for the last time . |
| 18 | Their behaviour conforms to fairly well-known principles and it should therefore be possible to estimate a perpetual inventory model which will show , for example , increased saving if the real value of their assets falls as deficiencies are made up . |
| 19 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 20 | Using the employment information contained in SPIR and in the responses , it was possible to estimate the overall employment in exporting companies . |
| 21 | Using the employment information contained in SPIR and in the responses , and from a telephone survey on the exporting status of non-respondents , it was possible to estimate the overall employment in all exporting companies in Scotland . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , there was a simple weight-loss equation on which it was possible to estimate the maximum amount of weight likely to be lost each week on any specific calorie allowance . |
| 23 | The SATs , it was argued , should be integrated into the curriculum as far as possible using a wide variety of practical tasks and observations . |
| 24 | The rear of the Toyota was only just clear of the water as I jumped out , checking to see if it would be possible using the low gear to push the rock over the edge . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | It seems exactly right to see the whole family sitting on a sofa together as Joseph meets his new sister at the end . |
| 27 | It can be possible to acclimatize a specialised feeder to substitute foods although there is always a danger of a reluctance to feed deteriorating into anorexia and premature demise . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is possible to lose the entire speech off a computer disk . |
| 30 | So he was right to drive a hard bargain . |