Example sentences of "is [adj] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The opening bank balance is that shown on your statement at the close of business of the day before the chart begins . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Brown took longer than is usual to recover from his hernia repair . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And the meeting should be held in a place where it is possible to work in our situation . |
| 10 | It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An alternative offeror which the target company is prepared to recommend to its shareholders in preference to a hostile bidder . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The current planning target for 1.4.94 is 7569 compared with our existing strength of 7900 . |
| 18 | Sadly , the thief who leaves no clues and is careful disposing of his ill-gotten gains is unlikely to be caught . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | One nice Liberal lady is embarrassed to read on her instructions from head office : ‘ Beware opposition volunteers giving you false numbers . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Eventually they are all dealt with , and Robyn is free to prepare for her lecture at eleven . |
| 23 | Is this to do with our inability as a nation to be direct when there is something unpalatable to say ? |
| 24 | Is this caused by my undergravel filtration ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Life in Britain may be glorified by the expatriate and family who come to believe that everything back home is perfect compared with their life style abroad . |
| 27 | Wait near the toilet for any resident who is unsafe to leave on their own and help them back to their room . |
| 28 | It is so cleverly written that it is impossible to put into my words , everything inside the plot seems to the reader to be perfect . |
| 29 | It is impossible to say from their findings of fact , or reasons , what their view of the witnesses was and in the result this decision can not stand . |
| 30 | When we feel lack of status it is easy to cling to our hard luck stories about how totally powerless we are to change the things we 'd like to change . |