Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] due [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Second World War broke out the day before the majority of deaf schools were due to reassemble after the summer holidays . |
| 2 | Marchers were due to congregate at Market Square for an open-air meeting . |
| 3 | The canoeists were due to travel along the coastline from Lyme Regis to Charmouth . |
| 4 | Other UN personnel and allied military observers were due to leave in June following the expiry of the agreement with Baghdad . |
| 5 | Part B of this interim report to the Science and Engineering Research Council is concerned with the initial destinations of research students working in the information engineering area whose SERC studentships were due to end during 1984 . |
| 6 | The first test of the Treaty of Rome came in January 1959 , when the preliminary stage of tariff reductions was due to go into operation , with customs duties being reduced by 10 per cent and import quotas increased by 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Now your meal began at seven thirty and the readings were due to begin at nine , although Sir Thomas did not begin until a quarter past nine . |
| 8 | The new measures supplemented and renewed the first , interim austerity package introduced in December 1989 [ see p. 37194 ] , most of whose provisions were due to expire on July 1 . |
| 9 | The ferry for the outer isles was due to leave at six on the following morning , so I checked into the waterfront hotel where I had booked , then spent the day exploring Oban , and went to bed early . |
| 10 | Councillors were due to meet on 25 April to consider the matter — no easy task when hundreds of letters , suggesting numerous solutions , have been sent . |
| 11 | The Undertones were due to re-form for the night but John and Damian O'Neill had to return to Derry following the tragic death of their father . |
| 12 | The offer was made in a statement to the local Basque news media , two weeks before the Olympic Games were due to open in Barcelona . |
| 13 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 14 | Pupils were due to join in a tree-planting project today . |
| 15 | Three hundred people at R-A-F Brize Norton and the major Oxford hospitals were due to participate in the excercise which would have simulated a runway collision between a V-C Ten and a Tristar . |
| 16 | The two sides were due to meet in Yaoundé to discuss the issue in August . |
| 17 | At the time set for the sale , it was realised that a special trainload of buyers , pressmen and spectators was due to arrive at Ayr railway station and the sale was delayed to await their arrival . |
| 18 | As the first round of the lower-level negotiations closed on Feb. 28 it became clear that these and other technical issues were still unresolved , and a second round of negotiations was due to commence in Budapest , Hungary , on April 23 . |
| 19 | The Science and Engineering Research Council provided a list of the names and departments of the 171 information engineering research students whose grants were due to end in 1984 . |
| 20 | It has to be remembered that the students whose grants were due to end in 1984 had commenced their research work before the expansionist IT Initiative , and are smaller in number than those who will be completing their research work ( or grant entitlement ) from the mid-1980s onwards . |
| 21 | Services were due to start on the Bury-Manchester Victoria line at 6am . |
| 22 | A plan to privatize six banks and seven savings and loans institutions was due to begin in June 1991 as part of an economic reform programme . |
| 23 | Also , a truce between the Provisionals and British authorities was due to begin in a few hours . |
| 24 | Officials in Luanda confirmed the report , adding that delegations were due to fly to Addis Ababa on Thursday . |