Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane was due to connect with the hydrofoil service to Malta which is used by British oil workers . |
| 2 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 3 | ‘ Rome-you 're welcome to it as far as I 'm concerned , ’ said Mervyn spitefully , the day before Ianthe was due to leave with the party from St Basil 's . |
| 4 | In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess . |
| 5 | On April 2 the Supreme Court ruled by six votes to three to uphold a stay of execution in the case of Robert Alton Harris , a convicted murderer who was due to die in the gas chamber of San Quentin Prison . |
| 6 | The purchase of Glass Glover comes just weeks before it was due to float on the stock market . |
| 7 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 8 | Mrs Purry , his daily woman , was due to arrive during the afternoon to polish and lay the table , hoover the carpet , dust the room , and — most important of all — cook the meal . |
| 9 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 10 | During the transfer ceremony Schwarzkopf , who was due to retire from the Army on Aug. 31 , conducted a final review of his troops and spoke emotionally of his pride in having served in the US Army for 35 years . |
| 11 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 12 | When Chaovalit 's resignation was announced early on June 11 ( the day on which the Prime Minister was due to embark on a tour of the United States ) there were immediate fears that a coup attempt might be launched , as soldiers in Bangkok and other areas began demonstrating within their barracks . |
| 13 | In mid-December , Britain was due to reply to the letter . |
| 14 | In 1921 Lord Northcliffe , the founder of the London newspaper the Daily Mail , was due to speak at a dinner for 3000 staff to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the paper , but he had a throat infection , and his doctor advised him not to speak . |
| 15 | The first report announced with regret that Harry Vardon , who was due to play in the Opening 36-hole match with James Braid , had caught 'flu and would be replaced by Rowland Jones who had ‘ recently and convincingly beaten James Braid at Tooting Bec ’ . |
| 16 | Contracts had already been awarded , and construction was due to start by the end of 1991 . |
| 17 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 18 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 19 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 20 | The disarming process was due to begin from the moment of Senora Chamorro 's inauguration and be completed by the tenth of June . |
| 21 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
| 22 | It was due to run in a couple of days , was n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | The government then told the Coal Board to hold back nearly five hundred million that it was due to pay into the Coal Industry pension scheme . |
| 24 | And after the smarting ache left by Cameron 's faithlessness , it was pleasant to bask in the kind of warmth — spurious though it might be — which such admiration provided . |
| 25 | It was strange to see in the flesh a man whose name and face had since 1939 been almost as familiar to me as those of Churchill or Hitler . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend was right to air on the Floor of the House a matter which , however specific — no doubt it is being looked into by the authorities and by the police — |
| 27 | I believe that that is the case , and the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) was right to call for the timetabling of Bills . |
| 28 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 29 | Prune said dismally that she did n't think it was right to stand between a man and his freedom . |
| 30 | Taking the view as I do that this breach was incapable of remedy , it was unnecessary to require in the notice that the defendant should remedy the breach . |