Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 2 | An estimated $84,000,000 in further US aid was also delayed due to protracted negotiations with the US government on a " legal assistance accord " to lift Panama 's strict banking secrecy regulations so that investigations could proceed into drug trafficking and " money laundering " . |
| 3 | Publication of this long-awaited new guide has been delayed due to unforeseen production problems , outwith control of the publishers — the Scottish Mountaineering Trust . |
| 4 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 5 | Corpus availability is currently limited due to legal constraints although some have been cleared for academic research . |
| 6 | The scope of tackling these problems , along the existing routes is extremely limited due to physical and and environmental constraints . |
| 7 | Nezavisimaya gazeta of Sept. 18 reported that the withdrawal of the Russian regiment stationed in Kishinev [ see p. 39060 ] had been halted due to Moldovan Defence Ministry protests over the removal of military equipment which it claimed should be transferred to the republic . |
| 8 | The move is needed to secure profitability which has fallen due to world-wide over capacity in uranium enrichment . |
| 9 | The introduction of a job-sharing scheme can be useful in two differing circumstances : first , where there are insufficient full-time posts to meet the number of applicants and , second , when the posts can not be filled due to insufficient numbers . |
| 10 | She has been nominated for her bounty packs campaign — the samples of baby food , drinks , nappies and creams given free to new mothers . |
| 11 | CD25 + ( IL-2R expressing ) cells were mainly located subjacent to basal lamina , with occasional cells distributed singly throughout the deeper parts of the lamina . |
| 12 | On Sunday 18 April , Dave was preparing himself for his first ever parachute jump to raise money for charity [ and to overcome his own fear of heights and aeroplanes ] when he heard that the jump had been cancelled due to bad weather . |
| 13 | Later that week we were given a first indication that the previous three ‘ greenhouse ’ winters may merely have been within the normal climatic variations and that a better season may be on its way , when the first Pitztal race was cancelled due to extreme cold ! |
| 14 | Some of the original facilities have had to be discontinued due to high operating costs and relatively low demand . |
| 15 | ‘ Reinstatement of full-time post of training officer — currently frozen due to financial restrictions ’ . |
| 16 | The report shows that , of over 3,600 SSIs , six suffered long-term damage during the year , 52 suffered short-term damage and one was denotified due to agricultural damage . |
| 17 | The new service got off to an inauspicious start when the unit earmarked for a media preview on Friday had to be substituted due to technical problems . |
| 18 | If shape information were available accurately from the pattern recogniser it should enable more candidate words to be discarded due to incorrect shape . |
| 19 | On Sept. 4 , 1989 , the NPC Standing Committee formally relieved of his post the Minister of Culture , Wang Meng , who had reportedly resigned due to poor health . |
| 20 | and reported that Khrushchev had resigned due to old age and illness . |
| 21 | You Bet Your Life , which has been screened on Channel 4 , was dropped due to poor ratings . |
| 22 | The campaign was generally agreed to have been the most open in the 25 years of Suharto 's " New Order " , but the discussion of topics deemed harmful to national unity was officially banned . |
| 23 | Intergranular primary porosity is generally present in well sorted coarse to medium sands with round or subrounded grains . |
| 24 | After the siege there was a rapid polarisation of opinion within the city , which resulted in the absorption or departure of the remaining Polish gentry , so that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars Danzig and Pomerania , though still containing a very substantial number of Poles and Polish-speakers , were considered loyal to Prussian ideals and identity . |
| 25 | Perhaps this latter attitude is the reason why new housing has been permitted near to existing odour emitters , in particular sewage disposal works , intensive pig poultry or other farms , and , conversely , why potential odour emitting uses have been permitted near to existing residential developments . |
| 26 | Perhaps this latter attitude is the reason why new housing has been permitted near to existing odour emitters , in particular sewage disposal works , intensive pig poultry or other farms , and , conversely , why potential odour emitting uses have been permitted near to existing residential developments . |
| 27 | The British media market is considered attractive to European groups whose own domestic expansion is hampered by national cross-ownership rules . |
| 28 | Mrs Yaxlee had grown unused to entertaining . |
| 29 | The news that no less than five new endings were shot due to poor reaction at the preview screenings hardly augers well . |
| 30 | But Allen warns : ‘ A number of cases of decompression sickness have resulted after required decompression stops have been missed due to divers running out of air towards the end of their dives . ’ |