Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " 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 | The day before she was due to leave the clinic she received what appeared to be an ordinary letter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was due to leave the province within a few days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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. |
| 11 | And of course I wa I was due to learn the trade , I was n't an apprentice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I was due to run the marathon the next day . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was due to face the Republican incumbent , Terry E. Branstad , an opponent of abortion , in the November election . |
| 16 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 17 | Under guidelines drawn up by the US government last August , a company called Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation was due to supply the equipment . |
| 18 | Just before the court was due to hear the request her solicitor received a cheque for £2,400 . |
| 19 | The African National Congress leader was due to accept the freedom of the City of Glasgow on 25 February during a trip to Europe . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The idea that he was alive crystallized the need to let him know that we were trying to help him . |
| 22 | ‘ I tolerated her while Ma was alive to keep the peace for Ma 's sake , except for the past few months , but no more . |
| 23 | It was refreshing to hear the audience actually giggling at the humour and the NBT shows that ballet can be fun . |
| 24 | When I was a young conductor in Germany it was usual to conduct the finale much slower than we hear it nowadays . |
| 25 | Traditionally , it was usual to take the upwind wing-tip and to hold it slightly below the horizontal . |
| 26 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 27 | While he did not glamorize the Munich settlement , he insisted that ‘ the Prime Minister was right to choose the catastrophe of yielding to improper procedure rather than to choose the terrible catastrophe of war . ’ |
| 28 | It follows that the judge was right to decide the question on the ordinary principles of English law . |
| 29 | The old lady was right to turn the prayer on its head . |
| 30 | The four elements of the offence of theft as defined in the Theft Act were thus clearly established and , in my view , the Court of Appeal was right to dismiss the appeal . |