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Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1	Much of the country was due to wake up to a teeth-chattering 4C ( 39F ) — six degrees lower than average — with ground frost in many parts of the South , Midlands and Scotland .
2	Following his visit to Du Pont , Sir Patrick was due to go on to Magherafelt , much of which was destroyed by a bomb explosion yesterday .
3	He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said .
4	‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him .
5	He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it .
6	The Quiberon was due to head back to France at 9am with several huge lorries of fish for France and Spain on board .
7	However , the region 's greatest prize , California , which was due to gain up to seven congressional seats through re-districting , eluded the Democrats .
8	In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to .
9	It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway .
10	At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack .
11	‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work .
12	US officials quoting Kuwaiti sources said on Feb. 26 that the Kuwaiti government was prepared to spend up to $800,000,000 to restore emergency health care , sanitation , communications , transport , utilities , food and water in the first three months after the end of the war .
13	Now he was prepared to live up to the role .
14	Yet , during the late 1930s , Labour 's clear hostility towards European fascism , and its support of the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War confirmed it to be a party which was prepared to face up to fascism .
15	Sybil gave a knowing smile as if to imply that in the interests of justice she was prepared to face up to this bizarre , extremely unpleasant but undeniable phenomenon .
16	Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ?
17	Harvard allowed no big orders over 25,000 shares , while it was willing to take up to 1 million shares on its books from sellers .
18	But I was afraid to go back to the village .
19	It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine .
20	Some distance behind them her ladies walked ; they were kind , but they oppressed her with their insistence on her royalty , and it was hard to live up to them .
21	‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’
22	Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there .
23	Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there .
24	One way and another , I was glad to get back to Bourn after this leave for a rest .
25	I was glad to get back to Britain .
26	Dexter was glad to get back to Chester Row .
27	So did I , thought Juliet , and for once she was glad to get back to the ward .
28	Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so .
29	Looking tired and drawn as she paid a visit to the homes in Wirral and Warrington , she was quick to point out to photographers that she 'd had an early start .
30	If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate .