Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 New radio anchormen RADIO Maldwyn , the independent radio station for Mid Wales and the Borders , due to go on the air on Thursday July 1 , will have Lee Thompson , 27 , presenting The Breakfast Show between 7am and 11am , Monday to Friday .
2 A recommendation to demolish the block of 1930s-vintage flats where the family lived is due to go to the council 's housing committee on 5 April .
3 The commission 's report , due to go to the president by early February , will eventually be published .
4 Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own .
5 The anniversary falls just before the regiment is due to amalgamate with the Duke of Edinburgh 's Royal Regiment as part of the defence cuts .
6 Here the bargaining stage has given way to a period of time when you feel it is just not possible to cope with the situation and the future looks bleak .
7 erm so er it 's sometimes possible to borrow from the university but they usually , they usually make it very difficult for one so er oh thanks , erm so erm anyway because with a thing like people 's accounts of dreams you may want to sort of go back and look at them , you know , sort of how people have expressed them in their own words , they may have er you know produced some nice interesting quotes or something like that
8 Alter the dialogue to demonstrate failure of parent and professional to agree on the problem behaviour .
9 Er to reach our target objectives we ha we need a very strong sell to the trade .
10 ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway .
11 The appended list gives names of all officers and members of Council currently serving , and indicates those due to retire at the close of the AGM .
12 Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production .
13 During the transfer ceremony Schwarzkopf , who was due to retire from the Army on Aug. 31 , conducted a final review of his troops and spoke emotionally of his pride in having served in the US Army for 35 years .
14 With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods .
15 In particular , ‘ Big Al ’ , one of Scotland 's all-time great jumpers , is surprised at the omission of Appleson in favour of the veteran Peter Dods , 34 , who is due to retire after the tour .
16 It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck .
17 I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware .
18 With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) .
19 But , because the umbilical goes through the basket , the diver can always find his way back .
20 This does not automatically mean that the provision will be made , but it does make it possible to plan in the light of solid knowledge rather than guesswork .
21 Catherine explicitly denied the serf 's right to appeal to the State against his master 's treatment .
22 In use I found the sack comfortable and stable to carry with the back just long enough for me to use the hip belt , which was functional , if a little basic .
23 It was strange to see in the flesh a man whose name and face had since 1939 been almost as familiar to me as those of Churchill or Hitler .
24 While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction .
25 While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season , there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction .
26 It is , in fact , possible to go beyond the association of these particular principles with democracy , and say that the emergence of politics as we understand it was tied up with the emergence of democracy in ancient Greece .
27 The plane was due to connect with the hydrofoil service to Malta which is used by British oil workers .
28 I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England .
29 The ‘ controversies of the day ’ certainly included the dispute over clause 43 of the Administration of Justice Bill in 1985 , by which the Government proposed to end the citizen 's right to go to the Court of Appeal when a lower court refused to give leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of a Minister or other public authority .
30 And the Pioneers were right to see in the dispossession by the consumer interest of the rights of the workers in the Manufacturing Society as a fundamental change of Co-operative purpose and as implying the acceptance of a much more limited expectation for it , but wrong not to recognise that that change , that limitation inhered in the idea of a dividend itself : for that , more than anything else , activated the potential conflict of interest created by the differing functions — that of workers making things for sale and that of consumers buying them to use .
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