Example sentences of "[was/were] not due [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR management was ‘ incompetent and unimaginative , ’ he said If the chairman , Sir Robert Reid , were not due to retire in April , he should be sacked . |
| 2 | We had all arrived early — the prayers were not due to start for another half-hour — but already the vast courtyard was three-quarters full . |
| 3 | The most recent agreement with the Paris Club expired in April , but talks on a new rescheduling of official debt were not due to start until September . |
| 4 | This had become operational in 1978 , although full earnings-related pensions were not due to come into effect until 1998 . |
| 5 | We were n't due to leave until the afternoon but our moods started to match the weather . |
| 6 | Okay , Bellow , I knew , was not due to arrive till the end of the week ; but where the hell were Márquez , Lessing , Gordimer ? |
| 7 | The Princess was not due to arrive till 12.45 . |
| 8 | I was not due to arrive in Paris until very late in the evening , when it would be dark . |
| 9 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 10 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 11 | The Queen was not due to return from a tour of the Far East until two days later . |
| 12 | The Likud-led coalition , whose four-year term was not due to end for another five months , had lost its majority in January after the withdrawal of two right-wing parties , Tehiya and Moledet [ see pp. 38740 ; 38787 ] . |
| 13 | Although the opening parade was not due to start until noon , crowds thronged into the grounds o f Eglinton Castle from early morning , everyone hoping for a good place in the arena . |
| 14 | Police said they had no idea why Roberts was at the court as he was not due to appear on any charges . |
| 15 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 16 | The night I went up the bus was n't due to leave until 11 PM , so I left my luggage with the bus station and went for a meal . |
| 17 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |