Example sentences of "was due [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |