Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very realistic were these , and there were fifty to be moved . |
| 2 | Awards were due to be presented in New York on January 15 . |
| 3 | A tender list of six firms was prepared in accordance with Standing Orders , but on the day they were due to be sent out , Mr Holdsworth was instructed to add a seventh . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the Broads were due to be given National Park status in April 1989 , and it seemed appropriate to mark the occasion with a modern study , albeit a subjective one . |
| 6 | They were due to be escorted to Croatia where they were expected to be handed over , possibly later today , to British consular officials . |
| 7 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 8 | Mr Stewart told the jury six of the group have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal cars and were due to be sentenced on Friday . |
| 9 | On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it . |
| 10 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 11 | Ralston and other Knopf officials , including S.I.Newhouse , were due to be deposed by the de Mazia Trust 's lawyers this month . |
| 12 | Mr. Barrett worked in the Town Yard , Mr. Reeves was a jobbing gardener whilst Mr. Sanger , who was a poulterer , was always in demand each Christmas when the chicken which so many residents kept were due to be plucked and prepared for the table . |
| 13 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 14 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They moved down on the Tuesday of tournament week , two days before the first rounds were due to be played . |
| 17 | The brewers ' various structural responses , which have included vertical disintegration as well as sales of tied estate , were due to be completed by November 1992 . |
| 18 | The tamarins were due to be taken from Washington 's Zoological Park to Brazil , as part of a programme aimed at increasing the numbers of endangered species . |
| 19 | The team , from the United Towing Co , were due to be taken by boat today to Stroma . |
| 20 | National and state-level elections were due to be held in Haryana in late May . |
| 21 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 22 | In Ireland and Denmark , referendums were due to be held in June . |
| 23 | In several provinces referendums were due to be held , the results of which would be binding on their legislatures . |
| 24 | Peter Harris , who has cancer , and his family were due to be evicted from their home in Sandford on Thames unless they could pay eight thousand pounds in arrears . |
| 25 | Now at one time that road as it started off there were terraced houses there erm little tiny terraced houses , and they were due to be demolished . |
| 26 | The problem affected all Liverpool City Council workers who were due to be paid yesterday . |
| 27 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 28 | These issues were due to be investigated at a second trial , to start on Jan. 14 , 1991 , when the senior financiers Roger Seeling , David Mayhew and Lord Spens were to stand trial for accepting the money . |
| 29 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 30 | ‘ It could be , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that the key is held at the missile base where the bombs were due to be delivered . ’ |