Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 2 | Known as Jimmy by his friends , he was due to retire in December and has been a weaver with Stoddards for the past 34 years . |
| 3 | Although it is important to note these differences , it is nevertheless possible to agree with Lowenthal and Comitas ( 1962 ) that out-migration is still the prime factor in rural depopulation . |
| 4 | In Lewis it is usual to work in pairs after the bank has been prepared by removing a width of turf . |
| 5 | Publishers are invited to send spoken word cassettes due to appear between April and September , to Nicholas Clee , The Bookseller , to arrive by Friday 5th March . |
| 6 | Only a few short weeks before she was due to come to Edinburgh and receive the medal , she was forced to go into hiding in her own country . |
| 7 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 8 | Without such controls it is not possible to know with certainty whether any changes observed in the product are the results of incompatibility with , or inadequacy of , the package , or are due to the inherent instability of the product . |
| 9 | It is perfectly possible to conceive of groups or individuals who have power without actually ruling in the official , visible sense . |
| 10 | He had told her , so that today he could be free — free to go to Charity and tell her about this astonishing feeling inside of him . |
| 11 | In practice the majority of investment trust assets are held in quoted company securities , although they are also free to invest in property and trade in currency options and futures , none of which unit trusts are permitted to do . |
| 12 | Consumers are prepared to wait for sales and even go for cheaper versions of what they would buy in better times , says a survey published yesterday . |
| 13 | But in South Africa , because male dancers were scarce , every available man willing to go on stage and hold up one of the women had to be encouraged and enabled to do so ; consequently , even the most rudimentary beginners were taught partnering . |
| 14 | There are , for example , subsidies in the form of grants and , until 1988 , tax advantages available to individuals willing to invest in forestry and which are often seen as the major impetus to afforestation and reforestation with little regard to the environmental consequences . |
| 15 | After what seemed ages , Dustin thought he might be willing to co-star in John and Mary if only in gratitude for the bit of play-doctoring the two visitors had done . |
| 16 | She would be prepared to go into schools and talk to young people about violence and the danger of carrying knives . |
| 17 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 18 | ‘ I was not prepared to go for things and not sure of myself . |
| 19 | In Britain , the company said it was hit by this year 's hot summer which meant more women were prepared to go without stockings or tights . |
| 20 | Pouring loose nodules from a jug into a tray and sticking others into a cubic array with dabs of silicone rubber illustrates that molecules are free to slide in liquids but not in solids , and are about equally close in both . |
| 21 | We pray that Gaynor may be free to minister to neighbours and to others in the congregation , and we pray that the children may make friends quickly and settle to their new surroundings . |
| 22 | He is prepared to come to Britain and live with me here but I do not know if he will be allowed . |
| 23 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 24 | The computer program will dominate at such times and promote considerable activity ; the teacher is then free to concentrate on management and coaching activities , and a discussion of tactics . |
| 25 | He is first and foremost a brilliant engineer and he is happy to be free to concentrate on research and development while I get on with marketing . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 27 | It would be interesting and potentially lively to engage in maths or history or music in the midst of a project on ‘ Warwick Castle ’ ( say ) , or ‘ Myself ’ , or ‘ Transport ’ , but projects tend to contain inherent biases to one subject area or another . |
| 28 | And I think that they are more willing to listen to women and to share women 's duties . |
| 29 | Is not it necessary to recognise that in future the Crown prosecution service should be far more willing to listen to allegations and to investigate them ? |
| 30 | If we wish seriously to enhance such process rights , then we must be prepared to listen to claims that the agency did not give adequate consideration to certain views . |