Example sentences of "was [adj] to [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went absent without leave from his regiment in December 1990 , the day before he was due to be sent to Saudi Arabia . |
| 2 | He says back in 1963 the trough was due to be broken up to make way for a path . |
| 3 | Anyway , one day the farmer who owned the street knocked on the door and told us that my pig father was due to be made into bacon . |
| 4 | The selection was due to be made at a DLP convention to be held before May 9 . |
| 5 | A second shake-up , an unusually extensive rotation of regional commanders and troops from all seven of China 's military regions , was due to be completed by the end of April . |
| 6 | The first phase of the project , to supply Benghazi , was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 7 | At a joint meeting reviewing the agreement on March 20 , both sides noted that in spite of some problems the overall timetable of the withdrawal , which was due to be completed by July 1991 , was being fulfilled . |
| 8 | A project to clean up the Ganges which had started in 1985 had so far cost US$115 million and was due to be completed by the end of 1991 . |
| 9 | EC finance ministers agreed on June 24 on a declaration committing all member countries to a minimum standard VAT rate of 15 per cent from Jan. 1 , 1993 ( when the single internal market was due to be completed ) . |
| 10 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 11 | The agreement was due to be formalized in October , but was placed in doubt when private creditor banks objected to the government 's announcement that it would not resume interest payments to them until a comprehensive set of new debt rescheduling agreements had been reached . |
| 12 | The match was due to be played on January 25 but was postponed because of frost . |
| 13 | It is perhaps not entirely a coincidence that his question was due to be answered today and the representations from the two trade unions arrived in the Department yesterday . |
| 14 | Sentence was due to be pronounced on March 22 . |
| 15 | But Mr Robb said Helen was due to be treated in May for ear , nose and throat trouble . |
| 16 | A DoE spokeswoman said the land had been acquired to improve sight distance on the road , which was due to be widened in the near future . |
| 17 | Two weeks before his employment was due to be terminated , he was offered alternative employment some 34 miles from his home . |
| 18 | Legislation approving the move was expected to be presented to the Federal Parliament in 1993 , and a 10-member implementation commission , to be appointed by the three signatories of the accord , was due to be created in order to oversee the transition process . |
| 19 | Hau 's appointment was due to be confirmed by the National Assembly on May 25 , but he was prevented from speaking to the chamber by protesting opposition legislators . |
| 20 | Gareth spent the night with foster parents and was due to be reunited with his grandparents , who live in Bebington , Wirral , later today . |
| 21 | The youngster spent the night with foster parents and was due to be reunited with his grandparents , who live in Bebington , Wirral , later today . |
| 22 | In deciding to take no action against the licence , Mr Peter said that he bore in mind that it was due to be renewed shortly when he would want a report on the company 's arrangements in regard to drivers ' hours and records . |
| 23 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 24 | The day before the case was due to be heard , Gallacher walked towards the railway line near his Gateshead home . |
| 25 | The action was due to be heard in four weeks , time and he knew that , successful or not , he was faced with ruin . |
| 26 | A summons under R.S.C. , Ord. 14 was due to be heard on 23 November 1987 . |
| 27 | Pohive and the pro-democracy movement took the case to the courts in 1989 , and it was due to be heard in the Supreme Court on Feb. 22 , 1990 . |
| 28 | A further attempt by Government officials to prolong the procedure after earlier defeats at tribunals was due to be heard in Edinburgh earlier this week . |
| 29 | More important than either of these , it was due to be run again on the Saturday afternoon in front of Bobby Anscombe . |
| 30 | Whereas the state case against the officers had been heard in Ventura County , an almost exclusively white suburb of Los Angeles , the federal case was due to be decided by a jury selected from a pool of seven southern California counties ( with a total population of 16,000,000 people ) which was likely to be less predominantly white in composition . |