Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take off your boots please , gentlemen — it 's healthier to sleep with your boots off . ’ |
| 2 | She then went to Cardiff to work several steam specials in the South Wales Valleys , after which she is due to return to her home at the Centre . |
| 3 | His fortunes are those of a solitary who is due to return to his people and to chance it with them in a further foreign place . |
| 4 | The opening bank balance is that shown on your statement at the close of business of the day before the chart begins . |
| 5 | The most obvious arrangement of bar 5 is that shown in our example — the top part to the 1st violins , the next lower to the 2nd violins , and the repeated chords below to the violas divisi . |
| 6 | Mr Brown took longer than is usual to recover from his hernia repair . |
| 7 | While not everyone welcomed the regime with open arms , it is opportune to reflect on its effectiveness and to weigh up the costs and benefits of regulation of the profession by the profession . |
| 8 | Old : Take the steep path leading up through a re-plantation scheme until it is possible to exit from its left-hand top corner to gain steep scree . |
| 9 | It is possible to duck underneath your opponent 's powerful head punch as he comes barrelling in , but this requires a fair amount of nerve and good timing . |
| 10 | And the meeting should be held in a place where it is possible to work in our situation . |
| 11 | And what 's that sitting on my give me a hand for my bed you know . |
| 12 | who 's that knocking on my door ? |
| 13 | It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations . |
| 14 | Have they when says that he 's willing to pay for erm Mrs disguises the maid , he says he 's willing to pay for her services . |
| 15 | It will also depend upon which type of promotion the editor is prepared to tolerate in his or her pages , for the choice of medium is as important here as many other parts of the media programme . |
| 16 | An alternative offeror which the target company is prepared to recommend to its shareholders in preference to a hostile bidder . |
| 17 | Goalkeeper Stephen Pears is prepared to play after his cheekbone operation , and Lawrence has decided not to recruit a young player to deputise for suspended Jimmy Phillips . |
| 18 | Motivation is the subject of an earlier chapter of this text , but it may be summarised briefly as the process which determines how much effort , energy and excitement a person is prepared to expend in his work . |
| 19 | Take the case of the inhabitants of an island who mistakenly think that the price which the rest of the economy is prepared to pay for its output has risen . |
| 20 | Leapor is prepared to fight for her dignity , and , indeed , believes it is in women 's characters to resist a tyranny , even if they are deprived of the hope of success . |
| 21 | ‘ Not particularly , and I 'll thank you in the future not to be telling men it 's OK to come into my room . |
| 22 | The current planning target for 1.4.94 is 7569 compared with our existing strength of 7900 . |
| 23 | Sadly , the thief who leaves no clues and is careful disposing of his ill-gotten gains is unlikely to be caught . |
| 24 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 25 | One nice Liberal lady is embarrassed to read on her instructions from head office : ‘ Beware opposition volunteers giving you false numbers . ’ |
| 26 | In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age . |
| 27 | Eventually they are all dealt with , and Robyn is free to prepare for her lecture at eleven . |
| 28 | Is this to do with our inability as a nation to be direct when there is something unpalatable to say ? |
| 29 | Is this caused by my undergravel filtration ? |
| 30 | But it is one thing to document the diversity in local authority expenditure and political activity ; it is another to account for its origins and maintenance . |