Example sentences of "[was/were] due [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 2 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 3 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The boy , who ca n't be named , was due to appear at a Youth Court in Swindon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 8 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 9 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |