Example sentences of "was [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matter was due to be reviewed at meetings of the Competition Committee and the Management Committee , where any ban would be ratified . |
| 2 | The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight . |
| 3 | Years later , on the day our first child was due to be born , when it became obvious that the birth was not imminent , my husband Roger suggested that we go to a film to take our minds off the event . |
| 4 | Ahmed Katangole was due to be deported , the Home Office had refused him refugee status . |
| 5 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 6 | Shortly before it was due to be changed , American astronauts decided to call a newly discovered planet Kirov Ballet . |
| 7 | One of them , Christina Carter , eight , was due to be told last night that her 15-year-old sister , Danielle , was one of the three killed in the explosion . |
| 8 | A month or so before this was due to be delivered , however , a curt memorandum arrived from the Energy Department warning the group that it ‘ should resist getting drawn into the fray ’ . |
| 9 | He explained his predicament to the librarian but was told that the book was due to be pulped and it did not matter that he was the author . |
| 10 | Anyway , one day the farmer who owned the street knocked on the door and told us that my pig father was due to be made into bacon . |
| 11 | On top of that , the first £100 instalment of a £600 interest-free loan for building the new stand was due to be repaid , and over £ 170 was owed to tradesmen . |
| 12 | The day before the case was due to be heard , Gallacher walked towards the railway line near his Gateshead home . |
| 13 | written medical evidence , or evidence of compassionate circumstances relevant to the performance of a candidate in cumulative or other forms of assessment must be presented to the course director or senior course tutor by the date on which the work was due to be submitted . |
| 14 | Vyaches lav Bakhmin , a member of the working commission , was due to be released from a camp in the Tomsk region on 12 February . |
| 15 | Both times it was retrieved but in 1966 , while it was lying in the field just three days before it was due to be raised , the top half was stolen by a gang from Aberford again . |
| 16 | Originally this game was due to be released by Elite as Aquablaster , a speedboat shoot-'em-up resembling Buggy Boy ( a previous release of theirs ) in more ways than one . |
| 17 | The action was due to be heard in four weeks , time and he knew that , successful or not , he was faced with ruin . |
| 18 | Storehouse said Simons was due to be passed over in favour of BhS finance director Graham Rider next year . |
| 19 | The move follows the publication of the Queen 's Christmas message 48 hours before it was due to be broadcast to the nation and claims that a BBC employee leaked the speech to a newspaper . |
| 20 | But the van-dals even slashed a toy polar bear which was due to be raffled for the appeal . |
| 21 | He was due to be presented with his royal award by Prince Philip at St James 's Palace next Tuesday . |
| 22 | The report to the DTI was due to be published shortly anyway , so , on the face of it , its premature appearance may not seem too important . |
| 23 | In deciding to take no action against the licence , Mr Peter said that he bore in mind that it was due to be renewed shortly when he would want a report on the company 's arrangements in regard to drivers ' hours and records . |
| 24 | A post mortem examination was due to be carried out later today . |
| 25 | He was due to be congratulated by Lady Thatcher after receiving a People of the Year award . |
| 26 | A LONELY widower died in a blaze at his home yesterday — just hours before he was due to be evicted . |
| 27 | Two weeks before his employment was due to be terminated , he was offered alternative employment some 34 miles from his home . |
| 28 | In 1985 the Supreme Court granted a stay of execution 20 minutes before the execution was due to be carried out ; a second reprieve came four months later . |
| 29 | He went absent without leave from his regiment in December 1990 , the day before he was due to be sent to Saudi Arabia . |
| 30 | The fourth series was due to be shown in the spring . |