Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 2 | They were due to be escorted to Croatia where they were expected to be handed over , possibly later today , to British consular officials . |
| 3 | She told the RSPCA that the animals in question were due to be moved to better grazing but she 'd been too busy to do it . |
| 4 | They were delighted to be invited to a friend 's birthday celebrations in Sadberge , near Darlington , where they used to live . |
| 5 | The numbers of animals were supposed to be limited to the number their farms could support in winter . |
| 6 | Rosemary , a young mother of two , and Clyde , a former Scots Guardsman , were lucky to be referred to the only NHS clinic which attempts to treat the condition . |
| 7 | When emeralds began to be cut , lapidaries found that their qualities were likely to be displayed to best advantage by step-cutting , and this method is still widely used for this stone , though brilliant cutting is sometimes applied . |
| 8 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 9 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
| 10 | Clearly , such adjustments were likely to be restricted to relatively low levels of the bureaucracy because of the greater centralization of control at the upper echelons , but this probably applies to other systems as well . |
| 11 | They were glad to be sent to Cannes to recuperate with only one show a night . |
| 12 | These , then , were some of Orkney 's councillors who were n't afraid to speak out , who were glad to be seen to be supporting the stricken families . |
| 13 | And all single or childless women between twenty and thirty were liable to be directed to essential war work of some kind as we can see here erm com coming to the factories erm there 's a woman there driving a tank another one on er a gu a gun sight . |
| 14 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 15 | The shore boys were ready for us with slides and ropes , and the local corporation carthorses were ready to be harnessed to the capstan ropes to pull up the beach the Jim and Eliza . |
| 16 | He went absent without leave from his regiment in December 1990 , the day before he was due to be sent to Saudi Arabia . |
| 17 | The Commission 's opinion was due to be presented to the Court of Human Rights in 1991 . |
| 18 | The move follows the publication of the Queen 's Christmas message 48 hours before it was due to be broadcast to the nation and claims that a BBC employee leaked the speech to a newspaper . |
| 19 | He suddenly remembered that Stephen Blufton 's information about drug smuggling was due to be put to the test that day . |
| 20 | The hire car was due to be delivered to the hotel at ten . |
| 21 | It was due to be shown to the paying public in a preview on the Monday evening . |
| 22 | During my wife 's pregnancy , I was delighted to be invited to a dads-to-be session at our health centre . |
| 23 | She told him he was lucky to be married to a ‘ beautiful , intelligent artiste ’ . |
| 24 | She was supposed to be engaged to a wealthy young Jewish boy whom no one ever met , and they began to wonder if he existed . |
| 25 | We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's bad enough just knowing that Isabelle was having an affair with a married man while she was supposed to be engaged to his brother . |
| 27 | This fore like SWAPO 'S , was supposed to be confined to its bases by April 1st and disbanded altogether by May 13th . |
| 28 | Money was supposed to be wired to her soon from somewhere . |
| 29 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 30 | " He was supposed to be admitted to Addenbrooke 's hospital in the afternoon for treatment of a skin complaint . |