Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The commission 's report , due to go to the president by early February , will eventually be published . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer . |
| 6 | Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of the finest Continental pieces is a Tuscan or South Italian vase made around 1470 painted with the arms of the Duke of Calabria ( est. £15,000–25,000 ; $29,100–48,500 ) . |
| 9 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 10 | The eruption of highly viscous lava , such as that formed by the degassing of rhyolite or andesite , can create large domes which may reach a height of several hundred metres and a width of several kilometres . |
| 11 | He reported 10 cases , of whom he claimed that the eight treated by a banana diet were clinically cured whereas the two untreated had died . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | A plant of noble proportions producing numerous stems each consisting of a large shiny green leaf and a leafy bract from which a spike of soft blue flowers emerges . |
| 15 | On the basis of these standards , SCOTVEC is creating a new series of awards in training and assessing , each consisting of a single unit . |
| 16 | If it was a complex curve , starting lazy and getting tight , say , Flynn made up a set of templates , each consisting of a plank and three nails to mark the tangent and the offset sighting lines . |
| 17 | The Β 1 subfamily comprises at least eight related complexes , each consisting of a Β 1 chain with a distinct α chain companion . |
| 18 | Alter the dialogue to demonstrate failure of parent and professional to agree on the problem behaviour . |
| 19 | I mean , that flies in the face of all the current pressures , all of the current political about , if you 're a naughty boy , into prison you go , and for the longer the better . |
| 20 | Er to reach our target objectives we ha we need a very strong sell to the trade . |
| 21 | Attempts to identify a murine homologue of LFA-3 led to the unexpected finding that mouse CD2 interacts with a different molecule , BCM1 ( CD48 ) 49 . |
| 22 | The Dolgarrog Dam disaster of 1925 led to the passing of this legislation . |
| 23 | After a moment or two he asked : ‘ Did that knock on the head kill him ? ’ |
| 24 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 25 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 26 | For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain . |
| 27 | In addition , farmers with an agreed development plan in the LFA receive a ‘ guidance premium ’ , which is not higher than that given outside the LFA in the UK ( though it could be one third higher under the Directive ) . |
| 28 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 29 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 30 | It is significant that they were known as Tarianas , a title closely resembling that given to the tribes of Turania in Turkistan who were associated with the Serpent , the Taryans . |