Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's possible to give some help to the poor and needy of the world without having to give the dedication that Janet Lacey did .
2 I just want to know those three things — the extent of the damage , the location of this ticking noise and to see if it 's possible to remove this atom bomb or whatever , which I 'm convinced in advance is impossible .
3 Ms Li said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's possible to have less confidence in the future than people already have , but I 'm certain it will decrease confidence in the British Government . ’
4 In classical breeding and in nature , it 's possible to cross some species borders , but you can not cross all species borders as well . ’
5 In those circumstances , it is unnecessary to express any view on the proper construction of the charter and statutes beyond saying that I have heard nothing which persuades me that the views of Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 were wrong .
6 All this variety of opinion , assessment and recommendation will be considered by The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice , which is due to report this month .
7 Whilst no such boycott is due to happen this year , Testing is not compulsory and parents would still be able to withdraw their children if they so wished .
8 He is due to arrive this morning at the Divulje barracks near Split on the Croatian coast and travel on , weather permitting , to a camp known as The Redoubt near Tomislavgrad in south-west Bosnia .
9 Ellie is due to foal any day and naturally Margaret is on tenderhooks .
10 Speakers there included former managing directors of BBC-TV , Sir Paul Fox and Bill Cotton , and Sir Michael , who is due to attend another farewell dinner tonight , hosted by the BBC .
11 Health Images UK Ltd , owners of the medical centre at Yarm Road which is due to open this month , say they would welcome plans to expand the site .
12 Admittedly , St Andrews boasts four 18-hole courses and a 9-hole one ( a fifth 18-hole course , the Strathtyrum , is due to open this summer ) .
13 The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting .
14 The Bundesbank is due to meet this morning , and the cost of borrowing is likely to remain unchanged to keep a lid on the German economy .
15 Parliament is due to meet this week .
16 bridge switch : Work is due to start this weekend on a £25,000 scheme to replace a footbridge over the A167 in Ferryhill .
17 Meanwhile , BASE is due to announce this week how it intends to spend an extra £4 million awarded by the Office of Science and Technology over the next three years .
18 A new Training Course is due to begin this January , based in Kent , near the M25 , on a weekly basis , with one residential weekend per term , to be held in Buckinghamshire .
19 The chip set is currently in pre-production ; high volume production is due to begin any day now .
20 The result : LANtastic for TCP/IP , is due to ship this autumn and it provides LANtastic clients with a range of terminal emulations , File Transfer Protocol between Digital Equipment Corp , IBM Corp and Unix hosts and distributed file sharing using the Network File System protocol .
21 A store address is not required by a shift instruction , so it is normal to use this portion of the instruction to specify the number of bit positions to be shifted .
22 These are available on prescription when the patient is at home but it is usual to give several days ' supplies to patients in case they are unable to obtain a prescription immediately .
23 The same should be done when a patient drops out of treatment , except that , in this case , it is usual to offer another appointment , reiterating the therapist 's willingness to help .
24 Symptoms of rust disease are shown as small , reddish-brown , raised spots on the leaf under-surface , and as control is difficult , it is preferable to destroy such plants including the roots , and to plant new specimens in a different place .
25 It is preferable to encourage those strategies which indicate a groping after meaning ( contextual hypotheses ) rather than those which show a grasp of surface features only .
26 This system can be a manual one but with computerised time-recording packages available at under £500 it is preferable to make some investment in technology .
27 The balance of this er well the community groups we do n't feel it 's right to spend that money at this point in time until we 've sorted out er where the other four hundred odd thousand pounds is actually going in that budget before we start throwing even more money .
28 I also went on to say that while that policy would be continued , the council always had and always would reserve it 's right to challenge any decision that it believed was legally flawed .
29 The inevitability of the process can be hard to accept and it 's normal to have these feelings , although many women do like the sense that they have relinquished control .
30 If it is possible to incorporate some escape exit and some point of anchorage , then so much the better .
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