Example sentences of "due [to-vb] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was due to retire at the end of the year anyway . |
| 2 | With 800–900 of Switzerland 's 2300 professors due to retire before the end of the decade , the Swiss have taken a leaf out of Britain 's book and set up a scheme for appointing ‘ new blood ’ assistant professors at the rate of 300 in each of the next two four-year planning periods . |
| 3 | This is due to appear towards the end of the year , but in the meantime the two companies have extended their relationship so that Office will be sold through all Novell reseller channels . |
| 4 | The 25-person , privately-owned White Cross is busy setting up overseas operations : a Dallas , Texas-based office is due to open by the end of the year and a Far East office will follow in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | The royals won a bumper rise two years ago in a deal due to last until the end of the decade . |
| 6 | Contracts had already been awarded , and construction was due to start by the end of 1991 . |
| 7 | Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ICI 's Genklene plant in Runcorn , Cheshire , is due to close before the end of 1995 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |