Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under US anti-laws Ford was not due for clearance to buy more than $15m of Jaguar stock until 18 October . |
| 2 | ‘ I long to see Charity again but I 'm not due for home leave yet awhile . |
| 3 | The Treasury gave permission in 1971 for work to commence and the building operation started in the autumn . |
| 4 | If your vagina feels a little dry during intercourse use a lubricant such as KY Jelly to ease the problem of friction and bruising . |
| 5 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 6 | Pilots who are frightened or apprehensive about stalling have not been properly trained and could be a risk to themselves and their passengers if they obtain their licence without overcoming their problem . |
| 7 | However , getting the temperature just right for life to arise on a planet is so unlikely that the chances of it occurring are billions to one against . |
| 8 | Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed announced on Feb. 8 the details of a Cabinet reshuffle to take effect from March 15 [ see p. 37861 for Cabinet appointed in October 1990 ] . |
| 9 | If , however , the authority to make appointments to the board of a nationalised industry did not reside solely in Government , but in part in trade unions as the instruments of industrial democracy , the Secretary of State could no longer be held responsible for the fitness of the board to discharge its functions ; and it would no longer be meaningful for Members to ask Questions , nor possible for Government to answer them constructively . |
| 10 | On the basis of the principle of participation , for example , it is possible for man to justify controlling nature and using it for his own ends . |
| 11 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 12 | This is seen as the great strength of the market order and an important condition for freedom : there is agreement on means but not ends , which makes it possible for society to reconcile the differing purposes of individuals within a catallaxy which is purely economic . |
| 13 | The importance of language to education was undeniable ; yet it did not prove possible for development to take place within conventional faculties or schools of education ( in 1975 , for example , departments within the University of London Institute of Education were unable to agree about establishing a language centre because of concern over who should be seen as central ) . |
| 14 | Once a DC is agreed it is possible for work to commence . |
| 15 | The progress made towards that increase allows " individual staff to commit themselves to their own professional development and makes it possible for management to accept responsibility for implementation " ( Hewton 1988:89 ) . |
| 16 | As Lord Wilberforce said in Anisminic : ‘ Although , in theory perhaps , it may be possible for Parliament to set up a tribunal which has full and autonomous powers to fix its own area of operation , that has , so far , not been done in this country . ’ |
| 17 | It is certainly possible for Parliament to give limited powers of government to local authorities and to local and national assemblies but the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty means that a subsequent Parliament can repeal the relevant legislation and take back the power . |
| 18 | Under a gold standard it is possible for gold to circulate domestically as the legal tender along with banknotes which can be exchanged on demand for gold . |
| 19 | Note : For Random Access media , there is no penalty for overestimating the number of blocks value as it is possible for LIFESPAN to detect when the media is full . |
| 20 | It is possible for research to find out , for example , where people would most like to go for their holidays , and how much they could afford to spend . |
| 21 | In retrospect the most important event of 1986 may have been the conception of the new Networker train , filling a vital gap price and quality wise , at long last making it possible for NSE to plan systematic replacement of old EMUs . |
| 22 | It is not possible for example to predict that Mr Smith will have a heart attack or that Mrs Williams will fall over in the snow and break her leg . |
| 23 | It is possible for example to vary the internal geometry of the factory and thereby alter the nature of the labour process and provide for rotation of job functions . |
| 24 | Along the north bank , the crisp light was sharpening the noble outlines of majestic buildings , although it could do very little for stone blackened by the soot of ages . |
| 25 | Again , testing with a stimulus somewhat different from that used for pre-exposure produces generalization decrement both in habituation and in latent inhibition ( e.g. Carlton and Vogel 1967 ; Siegel 1969 ; Dawley 1979 ) . |
| 26 | He said the gear , similar to that used for sub-surface profiling while looking for echoes during North Sea exploration , is sitting unused in a laboratory . |
| 27 | Used for example to indicate the connection between two modules used on different computers for the same purpose . |
| 28 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 29 | They thought it normal for tea to come out of the fridge or the oven in a tinfoil box with a peel-back lid , although they did remember for weeks afterwards Lucy 's occasional cordon-bleu phases , when the house had been filled with heart-warming smells , and different kinds of food had appeared out of saucepans on top of the oven , and other dishes inside it . |
| 30 | Indeed , in view of the spread of the disease , it seemed somewhat unnecessary for Horizon to choose a title relating solely to Greenwich Village . |