Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 2 | Anand Panyarachun , the Prime Minister , appointed a 33-member committee on Jan. 8 to monitor the conduct of the general election due to be held on March 22 [ for announcement in December 1991 of election date see p. 38681 ] . |
| 3 | This time the slavery was that of sin , and the freedom that of being brought back to God . |
| 4 | PROTESTERS have occupied an 18th century thatched cottage due to be demolished to make way for a by-pass . |
| 5 | It 's a bit annoying to be grouped with bands from that category . |
| 6 | That sort of short-lived , but expensive and frustrating delay , could soon become a thing of the past if ambitious plans due to be revealed by the Scottish Office today are given the go-ahead by the public and private sectors . |
| 7 | Aware that the new contracts begin on April 27th , the first day of the schools ' summer term , the county will be publishing a new booklet timetable — ‘ Bordon , Whitehill and Liphook Connections ’ — giving information on bus services and linking train timetables due to be introduced on May 11th . |
| 8 | But in practical terms of what could be achieved in the time-scales envisaged , with new contracts due to be signed between the privatized generating and distribution companies by the end of 1989 , nuclear power was the only option for large chunks of capacity . |
| 9 | It is of course possible to be an effective manager without coaching but by using this skill you can achieve even better results . |
| 10 | Creditors due to be paid within a year were up from £261m to £337m , while the gross interest payable was £158m against £130m — and that after capitalising £39.6m of interest . |
| 11 | It seems a bit odd to be asking people to join the CTC in order to further the interests of cycling in Scotland ; but if we get this leaflet off the ground we can then tell HQ what we are doing for them . |
| 12 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 13 | In the first of several ethics cases due to be heard in 1990 , the Senate voted unanimously on July 25 to denounce a Republican senator , David Durenberger of Minnesota , for " clearly and unequivocally unethical conduct " in violating congressional rules governing outside income . |
| 14 | Opponents due to be played in Bucharest include the United States on March 25 , Holland on April 25 , Brazil on May 12 and Egypt on May 20 . |
| 15 | The package was to be incorporated within a supplementary budget due to be presented for Diet approval prior to the beginning of the new fiscal year on April 1 . |
| 16 | Five of the eight prisoners due to be released were convicted of terrorism and sentenced for life in the famous Rivonia Trial of 1964 . |
| 17 | The Home Office has ordered an urgent review into the case of a convicted child molester due to be released from prison next month . |
| 18 | Out of the twenty-eight women on the house , three went to bed , and they were in fact to lose two weeks ' remission each for being in bed a few minutes late . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose I was feeling a bit guilty about being here , ’ she confessed in a burst of honesty that she instantly wished back . |
| 20 | The person responsible for the running of the 160-year-old bank , Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Russ , had resigned on March 12 after being criticized in the Ethics Committee 's report for the manner in which he had administered the bank . |
| 21 | That was the other thing I think about the Festival programme which I think was a bit embarrassed about is the fact that all that information is in such teeny tiny writing |
| 22 | Well she 's an old said she 's a bit old to be doing this , because you know , I suppose |
| 23 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 24 | Earlier in the day the Bluebell had fired Maunsell-designed U Class 2-6-0 No 1618 connecting her to a four coach train for ITV 's runpast shots to Sheffield Park , with the resulting episode due to be transmitted in February . |
| 25 | The purpose of the Monday morning assembly was to meet the Director of the week , his team of assistants , and to read through the script of the episode due to be recorded that Friday . |
| 26 | Staffs are pruned ostensibly to produce leaner and fitter organisations , but actually to replace relatively expensive , experienced employees with cheap young labour grateful to be spared another six months prowling the Jobcentre , or negotiating the shifting sands of the training programmes . |
| 27 | The use of this structured form of communication has enabled Figure 11.2 to be reproduced by transmitting seven lines , each containing a mnemonic and a set of alphanumeric symbols in an order indicated by the mnemonic . |
| 28 | Last week , a mob of 100 fishermen went on the rampage at Peterhead and destroyed the £200,000 cargo of frozen cod due to be landed by the Russian trawler , Romb . |
| 29 | A further 8,781 housing units on which construction had actually begun , would , however , be completed , together with all 1,686 units due to be built in the greater Jerusalem area . |
| 30 | The present restoration programme due to be completed in 1995 , is in the hands of Alain Rieu , regional conservator of historic monuments . |