Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 BLACK 5 No 44871 ‘ Sovereign ’ which has been hauling the ‘ Northern Belle ’ for Grampian Railtours between Aberdeen and Elgin on Sundays , August 2 to September 6 was due to return with the SRPS railtour stock to Bo'ness on Monday , September 7 .
2 Stig was due to lead in the Finnmårrks Løpet , Europe 's longest sledge dog race .
3 Flashback to 1963 when Dylan was due to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show and planning to sing ‘ Talkin' John Birch Society Blues ’ , a cut from his forthcoming album .
4 The Civil Rights ( Disabled Persons ) Bill was due to come before the Commons this week , but campaigners predicted it would be blocked by the government once more .
5 It was due to resume after the CPSU congress to adopt a party programme and to finalize the composition of its leading bodies .
6 He concluded that it was proper to look at the GUS group as a single entity .
7 " Although paleo-Indians probably were already in North America , no human ear heard the crashing tumult when the Lake Missoula glacial dam … burst and the nearly 2000 foot head of impounded water was free to escape from the Clark Fork River valley system of western Montana and across northern Idaho .
8 The chief agent asked Grunte whether he was prepared to vouch for a Mr David Swan , who claimed to be a member of his local Party .
9 ‘ I was prepared to go to the United States for the most up-to-date expertise , ’ says Clemency .
10 On July 16 Baker confirmed that Syria had dropped its insistence on a significant role for the UN at the conference and was prepared to settle for a UN observer .
11 It was interesting to notice in a Darlington bookshop yesterday that a book called Memory Vision , written by the Club 's founder , Tony Buzan , has been reduced from its original £8.95 to £4.95 .
12 It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) .
13 I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal .
14 It was my first play and it came about by accident , evolving out of that Tolstoy play I was supposed to adapt for the BBC .
15 This , in theory , is what was supposed to happen in the United Kingdom as regards what are called the ‘ Cinderella services ’ .
16 I was supposed to look like a London cabby .
17 Lizzie ( 45 ) , who is filming her final scenes at ‘ EastEnders ’ ' Elstree studios , was supposed to stay with the BBC1 series for only five episodes when she joined the cast in January last year .
18 Alexei never rode near enough to talk , but sometimes Burun dropped back and discussed the people Rostov was likely to meet at the Kha-Khan 's court .
19 On the other hand , Mrs Thatcher was wont to see in the Delors Charter the kind of creeping state socialism and patronage of the trade unions which she hoped to have dispelled in Britain itself .
20 The government , however , was reluctant to co-operate with a US plan by which it would use some of its abundant currency reserves to tackle the Third-World debt crisis .
21 He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape .
22 At the time , playing for Scotland did n't seem very realistic , but I was happy to play for the Anglos ’ .
23 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
24 Radji of was disinclined to protest as the Shah wished .
25 Once this had been resolved upon , Kluck 's position became untenable and he , too , was obliged to withdraw to the Aisne .
26 To the northwest , Dankl 's army was at bay before the combined might of the Russian Fourth and Ninth armies , and on 9 September it was obliged to retreat to the River San .
27 The Government was claiming it was entitled to intervene under an EC directive which allowed it to impose restrictions on ‘ retransmissions ’ of broadcasts from other member states .
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