Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 2 | ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died . |
| 3 | Edmundo Pinto , Governor of the western Amazonian state of Acre , was shot dead in a Sao Paulo hotel on May 17 , two days before he was due to testify to a congressional hearing on corruption involving officials in his own state . |
| 4 | And an Oxford student has been found hanged at her home just a few days before she was due to return for a new term . |
| 5 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 6 | I relate this because some ten years after the conflict , that is to say when the wounds of bereavement had only superficially healed , my father was called into Mr John Silvers 's study to be told that this very same personage — I will call him simply ‘ the General ’ — was due to visit for a number of days to attend a house party , during which my father 's employer hoped to lay the foundations of a lucrative business transaction . |
| 7 | When Chaovalit 's resignation was announced early on June 11 ( the day on which the Prime Minister was due to embark on a tour of the United States ) there were immediate fears that a coup attempt might be launched , as soldiers in Bangkok and other areas began demonstrating within their barracks . |
| 8 | In 1921 Lord Northcliffe , the founder of the London newspaper the Daily Mail , was due to speak at a dinner for 3000 staff to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of the paper , but he had a throat infection , and his doctor advised him not to speak . |
| 9 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 10 | Mr Horn , of Hurworth Moor , resigned from his £34,000-a-year job as education officer in charge of forward planning before he was due to appear at a disciplinary hearing at the council 's headquarters in Matlock last week . |
| 11 | The crowds of buyers , who apparently did not share their view , were moving out now to the lawn where the sale was due to begin in a large marquee . |
| 12 | Also , a truce between the Provisionals and British authorities was due to begin in a few hours . |
| 13 | It was due to run in a couple of days , was n't it ? ’ |
| 14 | The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 . |
| 15 | Whoever sowed the seed , the conference was due to meet within a few hours . |
| 16 | The British politician Geoffrey Howe said in an interview on television : ‘ We thought it was right to come to a decision when I next met them last night . ’ |
| 17 | Prune said dismally that she did n't think it was right to stand between a man and his freedom . |
| 18 | Although there had been a long established tradition of community and private forestry schemes , it was not until the launching of the Saemol Undong ( or New Community Movement ) in 1970 that it was possible to conceive of a nation-wide forestry policy and programme . |
| 19 | The advent of the new political regime changed this ; for the first time it was possible to conceive of a legal order which rested on a basis different from that of the civil law . |
| 20 | In Huaiwiri , as well as Ajdabiya and Benghazi , it was impolitic to speak among men of women 's ‘ freedom ’ , as this caused misunderstanding ; but it was possible to speak of a condition ( that is to say , of education ) as a principle and as a practical measure . |
| 21 | It was possible to think of a future away from this place . |
| 22 | That effectively made the game safe for the tourists , but there was little to commend in a cold and often bitter contest . |
| 23 | ‘ The doctrine preached by Weismann was that to start with a body and enquire how its characters got into the germ was to view the sequence from the wrong end : the proper starting point is the germ . |
| 24 | On the Saturday at Headingley he was bowled when the plates were already on the table , though it was easier to take with a personal score of 135 . |
| 25 | Abrams and Marsden ( 1987 ) found that it was easier to care for a heavily dependent person where there was an underlying positive relationship , than to care for a less dependent person where feelings were ambiguous or hostile . |
| 26 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 27 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |
| 28 | It was foolish to cry for a dream but it was always so real , and knowing it was only her imagination did n't make it any less painful . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There was , as they say , no answer to that — or at least none that I was prepared to touch with a barge-pole . |