Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were due to go away on holiday at the start of the following week . |
| 2 | Hypocrisy is a key element in this plot , too , with the difference that while they started near the top of society and were on the verge of receiving power at the very beginning , he — as a bastard son who is only just back from having spent nine years abroad ( the typical occupation for one who has no prospect of inheritance in his own country ) and is due to go again — starts very much lower down in society , virtually at the bottom . |
| 3 | It 's due to go again . |
| 4 | The concert by Prince was due to go ahead at Blenheim Palace last August . |
| 5 | It 's due to go ahead tomorrow night . |
| 6 | A full council meeting is due to go ahead with the formality of passing the decision taken in January by members of Durham County Council 's social services committee . |
| 7 | Ms Callil thinks it can be more profitable to go straight into paperback . |
| 8 | It is unnecessary to go too far back in history to discover the origins of some of the voluntary schemes for the provision of legal advice which now exist . |
| 9 | It is wholly unnecessary to go that far in the present case and I would not for a moment suggest that the common law of England is bound or even likely to follow every twist of the development of the common law in the United States . |
| 10 | Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen . |
| 11 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 12 | Sir James , who is due to retire shortly , could take over from May 1984 the task of director general of ESA , the organisation that coordinates the space activities of 11 West European nations . |
| 13 | The Director of Education suggested that as the teacher was due to retire soon , consideration be given to possible amalgamation of this school with that at Green Haven , about five miles away . |
| 14 | We employ an elderly book-keeper who is due to retire soon and I am concerned about getting someone to replace her as the books that she is keeping appear quite complicated . |
| 15 | Pc Barlow 's present dog , Ben , is due to retire later this year and the officer from Thorpe-le-Soken is trying to find a replacement . |
| 16 | It also emerged yesterday that Mr McNeil , who is due to retire later this month , is to explain his remarks next week before an emergency executive committee meeting of Strathclyde 's Community Relations Council , which was infuriated by his remarks . |
| 17 | Her husband was due to retire then and they had decided that they would both give up work at the same time . |
| 18 | It may seem petty to distinguish between the plural and singular form , and therefore unnecessary to include both in the index . |
| 19 | However , it is also possible to weave very lightweight fabrics . |
| 20 | What we are seeing is not some kooky ‘ Generation with no name ’ but a crisis , in , well ( sorry to sound so meaningful ) , Western philosophy . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry to sound somewhat negative but I 'm sure you can understand my feelings . |
| 22 | Part of the site also appears to have been turned over to saw milling , as it was possible to drive either saws or lathes and machinery from the wheels . |
| 23 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 24 | However , it should be recognised that while it is possible to analyse costs retrospectively to the individual patient , it is not possible to plan prospectively for the individual patient . |
| 25 | As with all questions affecting retirement , it is sensible if possible to plan ahead . |
| 26 | In so far as institutions find it more profitable to invest abroad , UK companies may find it more difficult to float new share issues . |
| 27 | At the time the analysts and the client were somewhat concerned that it was not practicable to implement fully either of the FAOR technical solutions , as expectations had been raised about the final outcome before the implications of these solutions were known in any detail . |
| 28 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 29 | Without this redshift/distance relation , it would be possible to estimate reliably the distance to most of the galaxies we observe . |
| 30 | Thus , by comparing the percentage of cognate words in two related spoken languages it is possible to estimate fairly accurately the date at which they separated . |