Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [prep] the [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The purchase of Glass Glover comes just weeks before it was due to float on the stock market . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In mid-December , Britain was due to reply to the letter . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Contracts had already been awarded , and construction was due to start by the end of 1991 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was because the winding up petition was due to come before the court again on 30 July . |
| 15 | The disarming process was due to begin from the moment of Senora Chamorro 's inauguration and be completed by the tenth of June . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 — |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 24 | There was an orderly system of collection , monitored by the Christian bishops , and it was possible to appeal to the sultan 's court in cases of abuse . |
| 25 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 26 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 27 | Until a few years ago it was possible to stand on the incline , particularly in summer , without becoming the least aware that here once stood one of the most complex and sophisticated pieces of apparatus ever constructed on English canals , and the idea of two narrow boats going up while another pair came down would have been quite beyond belief . |
| 28 | Braque sensed , too , that by dismissing the conventional , single viewpoint perspective it was possible to synthesize into the depiction of the head a variety of information ; thus in a three-quarter view the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen clearly , as if from the side . |
| 29 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 30 | From there it was possible to get into the Cathedral only through a large , very heavy door directly opposite the one they had just come through . |