Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] due [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of certain important deaths that were due to occur at two o'clock . |
| 2 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 3 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |
| 4 | It had already been performed in Britain and was due to open in Boston , then on Broadway as the second part of a double-bill , with another of Shaffer 's one-act plays , White Lies . |
| 5 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 6 | John Shalikashvili was appointed NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe in succession to Gen. John Galvin , who had been in post since 1987 and was due to retire in mid-1992 . |
| 7 | The vessel , which was named after the statue erected by students in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests [ see pp. 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] , left France on March 17 and was due to dock in Taiwan to take on supplies before beginning anti-communist broadcasts from international waters off the coast of China . |
| 8 | He had left school the previous December , having failed to get into Cambridge , and was due to go to Essex University in September . |
| 9 | In this tight community , he had been guaranteed his job back , and was due to start on the coming Monday . |
| 10 | Independents won seven seats and two were reserved for guerrillas who gave up their arms ; it was anticipated that these would be allocated to representatives of the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) , a guerrilla group which signed a peace pact with the government on Dec. 28 and was due to disarm in the far northern province of Sucre on Jan. 26 . |
| 11 | This was subsequently approved by both houses of parliament and was due to come into effect on Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 12 | In a peace initiative brokered by Zaïre 's President Mobutu Sese Seko , a draft ceasefire agreement was reported to have been signed between the Rwandan government and the FPR in Zaïre on March 18 and was due to come into force at the end of March . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |