Example sentences of "had been due " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration . |
| 2 | Most of them had been due to efforts on the spot by units of the Red Army . |
| 3 | In each case the Canadian fiction of a supposedly identical sovereign was repudiated ; and in each case the continuance of a unity which had been due only to the former British connection was made a prior condition for even pretending to play the Canadian game . |
| 4 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 5 | ( Part of Arnold 's failure had been due to his poor delivery as few could actually hear his mumbled address . ) |
| 6 | Her success had been due to her own qualities ; and she had even received national recognition for some of her work . |
| 7 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 8 | It seemed that the doctor 's hunch had been right : all these problems had been due to Candida . |
| 9 | Tim and Sophie had been due to fly out to meet Julie and Elizabeth within a few days . |
| 10 | She was godmother to Julie 's 23-month-old daughter Sophie and Mr Godwin and Sophie had been due to fly out to join the group on Friday . |
| 11 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 12 | However , deficiencies in the ability of the study to accurately record information on the cause of death meant that it could not be shown whether or not the reduction in mortality had been due to a reduction in diarrhoea-related deaths and hence due to the programme . |
| 13 | The train had been due to arrive at Euston at 9.30 . |
| 14 | Tania 's mother , Jackie May , said her daughter had been due to attend a court hearing in Gloucester the day after her disappearance last Wednesday . |
| 15 | A car accident has scuppered Leeds ' plans to sign Australian Test forward Mark Geyer , who had been due to arrive this week . |
| 16 | Joe , a friend from school , had been due to meet him there , half an hour earlier . |
| 17 | California had been due in second quarter 1993 , Montana at the end of 1993 , Nevada , end-1994 . |
| 18 | One recent study listed over 1,300 such deals concluded by developing countries between 1980 and 1987 ( Jones and Jagoe , 1988 ) and concluded that most had been due to the instability of the financial system . |
| 19 | He was reminded of his right of silence by being cautioned on two occasions within a short time of his arrival and , acting on the advice of his attorney , he remained silent when he might have been expected to explain that the shooting had been due to an accident . |
| 20 | So that the meeting and the usual Saturday-night social that was to follow it could end before curfew , proceedings had been due to commence at six but , even so , no one really expected a punctual start . |
| 21 | A murmur crossed the room like a wave when Blanche revealed she was seeking a man called Mr Kennedy , who had been due to meet Nicola Sharpe at nine o'clock on the night she was murdered . |
| 22 | Dalgliesh was interested that the Director had chosen to wait with the rest of the staff in the library , and wondered whether this was intended to demonstrate solidarity with his colleagues , or was , tactful admission that his office was one of the rooms which had been due to receive Mrs. Bidwell 's early morning attention , and must , therefore , be of special interest to Dalgliesh . |
| 23 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 24 | The thrust of this was that if the passenger liability suits went against Pan Am , the airline would seek to recover the cost of the compensation awards from the government on the grounds that the Flight 103 disaster had been due to the misconduct of government agencies . |
| 25 | Peter Wood relinquished the Chairmanship of RBIC , and RBIS , to Chris Pearson , Director of Private and Offshore Banking and Director , South of England in October 1992 when the rapid growth of Direct Line made greater demands on Peter 's time ; Norman , who had been due to retire at that time , was asked to stay on for two years to see the restructuring process completed . |
| 26 | His earlier lease had been due to expire during the previous year . |
| 27 | From Antwerp she had gone to Santander , where she had been due to return to London , but had been diverted to Bilbao instead . |
| 28 | The IBOA Waterford Area Outing had been due to start at 10 . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't be at home for ever , ’ he had said , feeling it was unfair , and that he had been due something for working . |
| 30 | The controversial Chesterfield MP had been due to give a lecture at Queen 's University this evening on the future of British politics . |