Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were very realistic were these , and there were fifty to be moved . |
| 2 | The proposals were due to be considered by Cabinet ten days later and ministers do not like seeing what they are to discuss plastered all over the press beforehand . |
| 3 | A tender list of six firms was prepared in accordance with Standing Orders , but on the day they were due to be sent out , Mr Holdsworth was instructed to add a seventh . |
| 4 | Mr. Barrett worked in the Town Yard , Mr. Reeves was a jobbing gardener whilst Mr. Sanger , who was a poulterer , was always in demand each Christmas when the chicken which so many residents kept were due to be plucked and prepared for the table . |
| 5 | The News of the World called it ‘ The most shocking sporting event ever to be screened ’ and newsmen from around the world hurried to interview the organizers of the Sex Olympics when it was announced that these very contemporary games were due to be staged in 1971 . |
| 6 | McErlain said the £40m sale of a liquid fuels business fell through the day before contracts were due to be signed because the buyer demanded a price cut to £29m . |
| 7 | TENDERS were due to be in by October 10 for the latest round of Ministry of Defence disposals . |
| 8 | There are no plans to resurrect the services which were due to be hauled by former BR Standard 2-6-4 tank 80080 from Crewe to Llandudno . |
| 9 | ‘ It could be , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that the key is held at the missile base where the bombs were due to be delivered . ’ |
| 10 | The Gulf War may have been responsible for the postponement of the finals of the Head/Isrotel/Tennis World tournament , which were due to be staged at the end of 1990 , for one year , but it certainly did n't dampen the enjoyment of the 12 regional winners who eventually took off for Eliat at the end of November 1991 . |
| 11 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 12 | Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California developer of the XDOS MS-DOS emulation software for Unix and other environments , is in liquidation and its assets were due to be sold at public auction on Monday . |
| 13 | Of the ICBMs , 130 were due to be dismantled under the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START 1 ) negotiated by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev . |
| 14 | At the same time , in an unconnected event , 148 aircraft were due to be flying towards RAF Marham to mark the 75th anniversary of the RAF . |
| 15 | Ralston and other Knopf officials , including S.I.Newhouse , were due to be deposed by the de Mazia Trust 's lawyers this month . |
| 16 | The day before contracts were due to be exchanged , the vendor phoned me and asked whether we could keep on his current lodger who was a student and about to take his final exams . |
| 17 | On the morning of the days on which they were due to be announced , the dealing manager of DPR Futures would scream at the AEs : " This is it . |
| 18 | When performances of Jean-Claude 's work were due to be broadcast , he would leave her a message with details of the time and date . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the Broads were due to be given National Park status in April 1989 , and it seemed appropriate to mark the occasion with a modern study , albeit a subjective one . |
| 20 | The brewers ' various structural responses , which have included vertical disintegration as well as sales of tied estate , were due to be completed by November 1992 . |
| 21 | Even on the day that the final agreements were due to be signed by both governments and all the Markham partners , there were delays . |
| 22 | A world famous fashion house recently found that their entire production of a line of woollen garments were infested with the larvae of the clothes moth , just before they were due to be sent to the retail outlets . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , talks were continuing on opening the Japanese market to foreign producers of lumber , the third area where Japan had already been cited under " Super 301 " , and where punitive tariffs were due to be introduced on June 16 , 1990 . |
| 24 | Although tried as adults , the defendants were due to be sentenced as juveniles , which meant that the maximum prison term which they could receive was 10 years . |
| 25 | Three further youths were due to be tried . |
| 26 | These issues were due to be investigated at a second trial , to start on Jan. 14 , 1991 , when the senior financiers Roger Seeling , David Mayhew and Lord Spens were to stand trial for accepting the money . |
| 27 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 28 | However , his reputation had been seriously damaged during the past year by a scandal involving his younger brother Juan Guerra González [ see p. 37263 ] , whose conduct had been the subject of a judicial investigation , the results of which were due to be made public in the near future . |
| 29 | National and state-level elections were due to be held in Haryana in late May . |
| 30 | Six had reached plea bargain arrangements with the authorities and the remaining seven were due to be tried later in the year . |