Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Southern North Sea : Wind north-east strong to near gale . |
| 2 | The wind freshened , and the two diorite barges in harbour due to go south sailed early . |
| 3 | I could have gone to my own office in Whitehall , but I was due to see Sir Edmund Pusey in the evening , and I did n't want to risk running into him before I 'd managed to clear my own mind a bit . |
| 4 | He was due to see Smith next day . |
| 5 | Later this week President Reagan , 81 , — who had a meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace yesterday and is due to see JohnMajor at Downing Street tomorrow — is to address the Oxford Union . |
| 6 | It is absurd to compare Webb with JPR , Halliday with Gerald Davies , Carling with Dawes or Gravell , Andrew with Bennett or John , Dewi Morris with Edwards , Richards with Mervyn Davies , Skinner with Dai Morris , Probyn with Llewelyn or Price . |
| 7 | It is possible to borrow money using this undertaking , or promise to pay , as security . |
| 8 | Presumably it is also possible to acquire locus standi to bring a claim by means of an assignment , subject to the usual limitations on the assignment of bare causes of action . |
| 9 | It is possible to acquire binaries from a package in place of the source modules . |
| 10 | wearing gloves is only necessary when dealing with blood and blood-stained fluids or if changing nappies that are soiled with diarrhoea ; it is unnecessary to wear gloves when feeding , holding or bathing a baby |
| 11 | As to whether the defendant 's claim was barred by section 10 of the Limitation Act 1980 , the defendant 's right to claim contribution accrued on the date when the plaintiff was given judgment : 6 February 1986 . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it is possible to classify plants in the field by taking leaf samples and performing appropriate tests ( see Dirzo & Harper , 1982a ) and to categorize the plants into four groups Ac Li , Ac li , ac Li , ac li . |
| 13 | Is it usual to kill prisoners , or have we broken your law ? |
| 14 | This increase in plant A/g from the LGM to present must have extended the geographic ranges of some species into areas where precipitation was formerly too low to support growth . |
| 15 | I was peeved to see Robert Kilroy-Silk credited with inventing the egg trick in a recent colour supp. profile . |
| 16 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 17 | The basic equations for a single-mode ( unidirectional ) homogeneously broadened laser in a high-finesse cavity , tuned to resonance so that is = 8 = 0 , may be written as the real system Here x is a scaled electric field ( or Rabi frequency ) , and ( 7.3a ) arises in the single-mode limit of the Maxwell equation ( 7.2a ) : Yc , equal to c ( 1 , describes the decay of the cavity field due to mirror transmission , and C , the cooperativity parameter , is defined as is the small-signal absorption coefficient and the population inversion per atom due to the pumping processes ( in the dark ) . |
| 18 | Although it is not possible to arrange times , dates and venues that are convenient to all people at all times , the various groups aim to do their best . |
| 19 | It may be possible to arrange respite care in the person 's own home , or in a residential care or nursing home or hospital . |
| 20 | But the good news is , that it 's possible to arrange insurance which can provide cash to help you avoid these problems . |
| 21 | It is possible to arrange demonstrations and to see literature describing its various libraries . |
| 22 | However , it is not always possible to arrange visits to particular departments on particular days . |
| 23 | Where it is possible to arrange viewing facilities , a bank of classroom recordings for teachers to refer to in their own time is a sensible and useful resource . |
| 24 | Would it be possible to arrange accommodation ? |
| 25 | It is possible to arrange retirements on spurious ‘ medical ’ grounds , but this practice was heavily criticised by the Commons Home Affairs select committee earlier this year . |
| 26 | Where there are objections to this , it may be possible to arrange lessons at other times and/or outside school . |
| 27 | How refreshing to see pages of letters last month ; plenty of scope for further correspondence , to which I wish to contribute as follows . |
| 28 | It would be very refreshing to see Luke embarrassed , for a change . |
| 29 | It is extraordinarily refreshing to see Kingdon 's emphasis on the geographical processes and patterns that must underlie any transformation through time . |
| 30 | It is possible to compare lung cancer death rates across countries , sexes , classes , etc. , where there are known to be smoking differences . |