Example sentences of "due [verb] at the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 2 | We 've pieced together the fragments of leaks and rumours concerning the latest version of the 10-year-old operating system , due to release at the end of March . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So not a very successful project in terms of getting people out into the community but people are due to move at the end of this calendar year and I have no doubt that the project will be very successful thereafter . |
| 5 | In support of this claim some commentators saw a hardening of official Soviet attitudes on a number of international issues , particularly disarmament negotiations ahead of the Washington summit meeting between Gorbachev and US President Bush due to begin at the end of May [ to be covered in the June News Digest ] . |
| 6 | A new five-year agreement for Soviet grain purchases from the United States was concluded in Vienna on March 22 , to replace the 1983 agreement due to expire at the end of 1990 . |
| 7 | 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 . |