Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton was due to turn the course of American economic policy on its head last night when he detailed proposals to the US Congress that embrace a range of new taxes and reject 12 years of the ‘ Reagan Revolution ’ . |
| 2 | The embarrassment made me postpone going to the clinics for weeks — until the last possible moment , in fact : the day before I was due to board the train that bore me off to this hotel room in Manchester . |
| 3 | ‘ My father was due to leave the islands next week for his two-yearly visit but I do n't think he 'll come now . |
| 4 | The day before she was due to leave the clinic she received what appeared to be an ordinary letter . |
| 5 | Ranger Smith , 21 , the first member of his regiment to die while on active service , was due to leave the Army only six weeks after the blast . |
| 6 | He was due to leave the province within a few days . |
| 7 | Just before Buzz was due to leave the hospital , the pin in her hip had worked loose , and a total hip replacement had been necessary . |
| 8 | The NZRFU council was due to appoint the selectors on December 14 . |
| 9 | About half of the sixty-five guests had wandered through into the lecture hall , but since Anthea was due to give the address and she was still talking to the professor , there was time to spare . |
| 10 | When Nathaniel Sherman awoke and saw where he was , he had looked at his wife shamefacedly and agreed immediately to her request to be driven to the imperial capital at Hue where the emperor of Annam was due to celebrate the Tet festival the following day . |
| 11 | Last night , the Archdeacon of Colchester the Very Rev Ernest Stroud was due to visit the family , to put the church 's point of view . |
| 12 | The 28-year-old embarked on a two-year course of hormone and electrolysis treatment last June and was due to have the sex change operation at Middlesbrough General Hospital next year . |
| 13 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , commander of operations against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , who was due to assume the post of army chief-of-staff in January 1993 , and Brig. |
| 14 | And of course I wa I was due to learn the trade , I was n't an apprentice . |
| 15 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 16 | Jodami was due to contest the Rowland Meyrick Chase at Wetherby on Boxing Day but the meeting was abandoned . |
| 17 | After a session on March 26-27 , the ICJ was due to resume the hearings on April 4 . |
| 18 | I was due to run the marathon the next day . |
| 19 | Lee , who took £11,486 from friends and customers and paid only £6,774 into an account over a 48week period , surrendered herself to police on the day she was due to pay the money out . |
| 20 | He was due to face the Republican incumbent , Terry E. Branstad , an opponent of abortion , in the November election . |
| 21 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 22 | The van turned out to be a 1938 vintage vehicle which was due to enter the London to Brighton rally . |
| 23 | Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment . |
| 24 | Just before the court was due to hear the request her solicitor received a cheque for £2,400 . |
| 25 | The African National Congress leader was due to accept the freedom of the City of Glasgow on 25 February during a trip to Europe . |
| 26 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 27 | The idea that he was alive crystallized the need to let him know that we were trying to help him . |
| 28 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 29 | It was refreshing to hear the audience actually giggling at the humour and the NBT shows that ballet can be fun . |
| 30 | When I was a young conductor in Germany it was usual to conduct the finale much slower than we hear it nowadays . |