Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are sorry to see leave in October after ten years as our regional nutritionist for a well earned rest before her happy event . |
| 2 | Shadow foreign minister George Robertson said : ‘ We are right to maintain pressure on Serbia and we must do so increasingly through sanctions . |
| 3 | It is almost half-past six and I am due to meet Sunil in our room for a quick snack . |
| 4 | It has , however , been pleasant to do business with you and I am sure you and your little family will be extremely happy at ‘ La Felicit à'; . |
| 5 | Sailors from the hunter class minesweeper are due to visit Hurworth from March 7 to 9 while their ship is docked at Hartlepool . |
| 6 | Over 500 panners from all over the world are due to take part in what promises to be a most memorable event . |
| 7 | More than 1,000 classic and vintage vehicles are due to take part in the 350-mile event . |
| 8 | A series of presentations are due to take place during this month and August to enable staff to have the chance to see and ask questions about the product . |
| 9 | The normal gene is preserved in tissue culture at the laboratory , tests are due to take place on humans in the Oxford area in the next few months . |
| 10 | At least 18 other investigations are underway while four further trials are due to take place within the next few months . |
| 11 | If the Bill receives the Royal Assent next summer , elections to the new shadow authorities are due to take place in May 1995 with the new councils taking over in April 1996 . |
| 12 | TALKS to decide the fate of a Sainsbury 's development in Darlington are due to take place in London today . |
| 13 | Hepper Robinson in Middlesbrough is run by two managers , Alan and Stephen Brown , who are due to receive details of the MBO deal from RE over the weekend . |
| 14 | Rathbone 's marketing director , Mike Bryant , said the cost to the company is negligible and he urged other companies who are due to pay dividends in the next three months to declare their dividends before 5 April . |
| 15 | Two men have been charged in connection with the accident and are due to stand trial at Gloucester Crown Court . |
| 16 | Two long-term injury absentees are due to make comebacks in the Edinburgh Academicals v Selkirk encounter at Raeburn Place . |
| 17 | The North Down side are due to play Cliftonville at the Oval on April 2 — the same night Northern Ireland 's schoolboys face England in a schoolboy international at Castlereagh Park . |
| 18 | The reforms are due to become law in October 1992 . |
| 19 | Charabanc Theatre Company are grateful to receive funding from the Arts Council of N.I . |
| 20 | The team headed by Michel Desgranges which had been due to leave Iraq on March 13 , postponed its departure after the discovery of hundreds of additional leaking chemical rockets . |
| 21 | The meeting had been due to clarify agreements in the Economic Community , prior to ratification by the constituent republics ' Supreme Soviets . |
| 22 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 23 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 24 | Three controversial referendums on abortion which had been due to take place on Dec. 3 [ see p. 39160 ] were brought forward to Nov. 25 to coincide with the general election . |
| 25 | Talks between Iraq and Kuwait which had originally been due to take place in Jeddah on July 28-29 were delayed until July 31 . |
| 26 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
| 27 | The prosecution say that following an armed robbery at a building society near Gloucester in 1988 White had been due to give evidence against Gardiner and implicating him in the crime . |
| 28 | White was stabbed and dumped in a lake because he had been due to give evidence against Gardiner in a robbery trial . |
| 29 | However , in July 1986 Guinness announced that ‘ it has not been possible to reach agreement with Sir Thomas Risk and he will not now be invited to join the board , nor therefore be nominated as Non-Executive Chairman ’ . |
| 30 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |