Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 2 | One burrow may eventually contain as many as half a dozen of these paralysed prisoners , each doomed in due course to be eaten alive by the wasp grub that hatches upon it . |
| 3 | Now we would expect that justification to emerge from this examination and in due course to be embodied in the er lower case script for the alteration itself . |
| 4 | There are nineteen full-time care staff of whom eleven are on duty in the evenings and Mr has asked for a further eleven full-time care staff , he hopes in due course to be able to have seventeen such staff on duty at any one time . |
| 5 | With regard to galleries , then , we aim to support a number of strategically placed centres in , say , Brighton , Farnham , Canterbury , Folkestone , St. Leonards and Eastbourne , sufficiently for them , each doing their own thing , in due course to be able to service a touring exhibition network , made up of themselves and the other regional galleries , be able to offer the artist whose work they exhibit or promote a fair deal — that means paying them for their transport , insurance , publicity costs and perhaps a fee for exhibiting their work in public — and finally to organize appropriate marketing and education back-up to their own exhibitions programmes , which both pulls people in to the gallery and reaches out to them in , for example , schools and industry . |
| 6 | One day , inspired by the balmy weather , I decided to go and see the great onion-domed tomb of Safdarjung , the last really great Mughal building to be built in India . |
| 7 | As a mother herself , no one is more aware than the Queen of the terrible dilemma Diana wrestled with in reaching the momentous decision to be the loser in a parental battle all too familiar to divided families . |
| 8 | For progressive building to be successful , it was essential that the supply of completely manufactured parts should be on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 9 | The advisers should discuss with the investors at the outset the extent of the due diligence to be undertaken and the precise purpose of the exercise . |
| 10 | SFA 's rules impose certain restrictions on the types of investment advertisement that may be issued , require due diligence to be taken in preparing the advertisement and also prescribe certain mandatory contents . |
| 11 | By the time Gen McCreery returned to Eighth Army HQ at the end of the afternoon , he had ample opportunity to be fully briefed as to what was going on . |
| 12 | I share the concerns of eminent conservationists that international opposition to the ivory trade may crumble in the face of the heavy and insidious pressure being exerted by Zimbabwe and its allies against the continuation of the total ban to be proposed in March 1992 . |
| 13 | The idea that there is a strong parallel to be drawn between judicial review in administrative law and company law is further strengthened by the similarities between the standards of review used in these two fields . |
| 14 | Most people prefer the total look to be soft and natural without some of the extravagances and hard colours of younger-style make-up , but that is partly a matter of personal taste and overall style . |
| 15 | Relatives who are carers may also find that the requirement for professional support to be given locally infringes on their own rights to privacy . |
| 16 | Slopers , smearing and associated delicate manoeuvres allow absorbing progress to be made , while the unexpectedly good protection completes the icing on the cake . |
| 17 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 18 | For this weak semblance to be rendered strong , |
| 19 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 20 | The complex pattern of prayers , hymns , readings , versicles and responses performed daily throughout the year enables a private faith to be projected in a shared experience and assume a ritualised existential quality . |
| 21 | But before the collecting boxes are handed round for the benefit of the new but impecunious union , there are some familiar figures , South African and otherwise , from rugby 's political elite to be seen . |
| 22 | For used money to be viable it has to be seen to make new money . |
| 23 | Therefore , they need the democratic powers and the rights of the European Parliament to be developed to ensure that those who are elected can be called to account . |
| 24 | Asked by a perfumed interrogator whether I would like a large slice of my earned income to be taken from me and devoted to helping the poor , I would feel loathe to shake my head . |
| 25 | As mentioned in the sub-section on SPRs , a number of SSRs should be generated when responding to a complex SPR , thus allowing the complete description to be stored in LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there is a strong case to be made that Aquinas is not setting out to provide proofs of God 's existence . |
| 27 | There is , however , a strong case to be made for the retention of management development expertise available to the NHS . |
| 28 | Indeed , there is a strong case to be made that the moralistic campaigns around sexuality encouraged , as a response , a more radical position on sexuality . |
| 29 | Though lost or not , as you 've never received any official sanction there must be a strong case to be made for claiming that you 're trading illegally . ’ |
| 30 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |