Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new sales division is headed by Paul Hutchinson as director of sales ( David Marten is due to retire in the near future ) and John Mohin has been appointed sales manager , responsible for UK sales operations , assisted by Diane Best and Michael Trotter as regional sales managers . |
| 2 | Is it right to see in the big reduction in disconnections signs of a different attitude on the part of the electricity companies to their customers and signs of better management since the companies were privatised , and is there scope for further improvement in this respect ? |
| 3 | One final reason why Gothic 's victory was never complete lay in the new Settlements and Central Halls which Nonconformity erected in town centres . |
| 4 | It is possible to see in the parallel gulf between detailed legal control over lending to the needy , and very little control over other credit , the survival of the very long-standing and deep-rooted mistrust of usury ( alongside social concern about the way that high rates of interest could turn poverty into destitution ) . |
| 5 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 6 | An 18-year-old and a 16-year-old are due to appear in the same court to face a similar charge . |
| 7 | Learners acquire a particular language by receiving comprehensible input , that is to say by being exposed to messages expressed in language which is within the current acquired competence of the learners , together with language which is due to appear in the next stage of acquisition , and which can be eased into the mind by the help of context , knowledge of the world and so on . |
| 8 | In February she is due to appear in the networked This Sunday . |
| 9 | It carries more textual meaning than an adverbial occurring in the same position . |
| 10 | I should also be prepared to include in the appropriate sections , committees which , though not Cabinet Committees , in fact perform closely similar functions . |
| 11 | They had to be prepared to perform in the strangest conditions . |
| 12 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 13 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 14 | Notably , it produced the clearest suggestion yet from the Soviet side that it was willing to compromise in the 45-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries . |
| 15 | The effect has been to deny the right of employers to a proper say in the educational process because their interest has been confined to recruitment after the event rather than as participants in provision . |
| 16 | Clairol 's Free Curl heated styler has been designed with moving style in mind — it 's a cordless , gas powered appliance which has been OK 'd in the checked-in luggage on planes so it goes wherever you do . |
| 17 | It is , however , acceptable to illustrate in the conceptual model secondary inputs/outputs in support of the main transformation , and some of these ( such as resources , information etc ) could have a tangible form in the real situation . |
| 18 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 19 | The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays . |
| 20 | As this develops it will be helpful ; but it is not a complete solution , for institutions will never be sufficiently well-equipped to intervene in the thousands of firms they own . |
| 21 | It was interesting to read in the Daily Express about Labour 's plan for a luxury VAT rate . |
| 22 | At the moment that is not a future anyone is prepared to consider in the happy valley of San Joaquin . |
| 23 | MR DAVID Mellor , the Home Office Minister of State , said yesterday that he was ‘ almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society ’ as journalists working for tabloid newspapers . |
| 24 | I open some of the popular newspapers covering some people 's private lives or great national tragedies and I feel almost ashamed and embarrassed to live in the same society as people who can produce that sort of stuff . ’ |
| 25 | As a result , I did n't do much spontaneous playing in the actual studio . ’ |
| 26 | But if that were the explanation , it would imply that the movement was only willing to act in the general interest when the Labour Party formed an assured Government , and having decided that its defeat was impending , abandoned any sense of responsibility save for the unions ' immediate , sectional interests . |
| 27 | The complementary side of this partnership of thinking is composed of all those willing to join in the intellectual effort with the energy that it calls for . |
| 28 | On the other hand , traders buying sterling with dollars will be prepared to trade in the forward market at a rate that is also less attractive to them when compared with the expected future spot rate ( in this case f t will be less than ) . |
| 29 | But Labour are now so desperate that they 're prepared to throw in the whole kitchen sink in their frantic bid for power . ’ |
| 30 | would you be willing to scan in the famous ( Fantasy Football League ) page(s) from the telegraph ? several scans ( files ) may be necessary but most of us got tape on the desk … |