Example sentences of "it [was/were] due [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was due to open in less than a week .
2 The purchase of Glass Glover comes just weeks before it was due to float on the stock market .
3 ‘ Things were being let slide because it was due to close in five weeks time . ’
4 The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court .
5 On November 5 , 1969 the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) sought the RAF Museum 's approval to keep PA474 flying right up to the date that it was due to go into Hendon , which the Museum agreed to .
6 It was due to start at four o'clock , but did n't begin until twenty past due to a hitch .
7 It was due to begin at eleven am , Bill Pertwee told me .
8 It was due to run in a couple of days , was n't it ? ’
9 It was due to resume after the CPSU congress to adopt a party programme and to finalize the composition of its leading bodies .
10 The government then told the Coal Board to hold back nearly five hundred million that it was due to pay into the Coal Industry pension scheme .
11 Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do .
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