Example sentences of "[be] due to take [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynda , a former teacher who has worked as a deaconess in Ayrshire , Edinburgh and Fort William and whose most recent church appointment was a centre warden at Iona Abbey , had been due to take over the lease of Key House , next to Falkland Palace , in July but the property became vacant sooner than expected . |
| 2 | The UK government , which is due to take over the presidency in the Council in the latter half of 1992 , will set the enforcement of existing Community legislation as a top priority during its presidency . |
| 3 | The former United Kingdom Home Secretary and since 1990 government leader in the House of Lords , Lord Waddington , was announced as the new Governor of Bermuda on April 13 and was due to take up the post in the late summer . |
| 4 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 5 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 6 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 7 | As established in exploratory talks which took place in January-March 1990 , a major obstacle to the achievement of the EES in the forthcoming negotiations with the EC was EFTA 's demand for equal status with the EC in a joint decision-making body , particularly sought by Switzerland which was due to take over the presidency of EFTA on July 1 . |