Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of the two ten-truck convoys was due to spend its third night just inside the Serbian border . |
| 2 | The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday . |
| 3 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 4 | The four-year-old was due to make his American debut in May after spending the winter at owner Virginia Kraft Payson 's training centre in Florida . |
| 5 | Richard Demarco , ‘ the well-known artist , patron and impresario ’ , was due to deliver his inaugural press conference as Kingston University 's Professor of European Cultural Studies in a nearby hotel . |
| 6 | Shortly before the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill was due to gain its second reading , he told the House that the referendum question could be perfectly simple unless the job of formulating it was given to the Department of Education officials who framed the current controversial tests for 14-year-olds . |
| 7 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 8 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 9 | A MAN turned up for Old Bailey jury service yesterday — and found he was due to try his 20-year-old son for burglary . |
| 10 | Towards the end of 1982 , Bernard was half-tempted to revive his old profession of writer and tackle a company history himself . |
| 11 | New Order were proving they could compete with the largely faceless and bland disco outpourings of the major corporations , and also that it was possible to channel their personal intensity through this format . |
| 12 | It was easier to put it that way . |
| 13 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 14 | He had chosen this woman specifically because she was the sort she was — a simple type , immediately responsive to the baby , no outside involvements , so she was free to give her entire time to him , willing to do without time off while the baby was still on the breast , and not expecting the massive salary most women would want for a job like this . |
| 15 | Though she had wanted children , Barbara was free to pursue her political career . |
| 16 | I was free to express my own thoughts and feelings — it hurt sometimes . |
| 17 | Mandela on Oct. 12 said that the ANC was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalization if the business community could provide an alternative which would redress the economic imbalances in the country . |
| 18 | However , neither country was prepared to yield their respective claims over the territory . |
| 19 | And I was impressed that a Harley Street gynaecologist was prepared to boil his own kettle . |
| 20 | Mo Mowlam , a Labour Northern Ireland spokeswoman , was prepared to accept their good faith . |
| 21 | The Prodigal Son becomes the pattern for us all ; he became so hungry that he was prepared to swallow his own pride . |
| 22 | Besides , Richard Armstrong was careful to allow his young heroes the support of older men whose experience could be called upon at need . |
| 23 | I was careful to explain my own attitude to commissioned work — that in order for me to work it would have to be within the broadest of limitations . |
| 24 | Kylie had no intention of losing this unique hold over her public and was careful to combine her raunchier moments with reminders of her more innocent past . |
| 25 | I was careful to find them some distance from Upper Thames Street . |
| 26 | On her return to Austria , she was careful to keep her new hobby a secret from her parents , who ‘ would not have considered it at all a proper pastime for a young girl ’ . |
| 27 | In July 1989 Burt issued a statement in Geneva ( during the 11th NST round ) that the USA was willing to revise its existing demand for a ban on mobile ICBMs if the US Congress were to approve funding for " the deployment of US mobile missiles ' , the multi-warhead rail-based MX and the single-warhead road-based Midgetman systems , a proposal finalized in Wyoming in September 1989 ( see above ) . |
| 28 | In Dresden , long known for a softer line than elsewhere , the Mayor , Wolfgang Berghofer , announced after talks with 20 church and New Forum opposition activists that he was willing to discuss their nine-point proposal , and release anyone arrested who was not accused of violence within 24 hours . |
| 29 | It was interested to hear what this lady said about putting on so much weight |
| 30 | I was interested to read your recent articles on commercial diver training , which were very good as far as they went . |