Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government had long preferred these white ‘ aliens ’ ( with these low social costs ) to Commonwealth immigrants ( for example in 1969 the number of work permits issued to aliens was 67,788 compared to 3,512 vouchers for Commonwealth citizens ) . |
| 2 | Or was Germany , rather than Italy , his real destination after whatever was due to happen in Paris ? |
| 3 | The plane was due to connect with the hydrofoil service to Malta which is used by British oil workers . |
| 4 | The vessel , which was named after the statue erected by students in Beijing 's Tiananmen Square during the 1989 protests [ see pp. 36640-42 ; 36720-22 ] , left France on March 17 and was due to dock in Taiwan to take on supplies before beginning anti-communist broadcasts from international waters off the coast of China . |
| 5 | Understandably , he decided there and then to write off the two weekly instalments he was due to collect from a customer there , and never to lend again in that place . |
| 6 | The EC was due to fund between 25 and 40 per cent of the £250 million ( Ecu355 million ) project , but has now postponed the decision out of uncertainty as to whether the project will be economically viable . |
| 7 | Just before he was due to leave for the states , there arrived in Aswan herald form another king . |
| 8 | The immediate problem was rehearsal time , as Denis was due to leave for Massachusetts any moment to spend the summer with Astrid 's parents . |
| 9 | ‘ Rome-you 're welcome to it as far as I 'm concerned , ’ said Mervyn spitefully , the day before Ianthe was due to leave with the party from St Basil 's . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was due to leave at five-thirty in the afternoon . |
| 12 | In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | THE 24-year-old Donegal man who underwent a kidney transplant after being whisked off to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin minutes before he was due to go on stage at the City of Derry Drama Festival was today said to be ‘ doing very well . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ On the occasion in question when he was due to go on a fourth visit , the prison was informed that unfortunately the relative had died . |
| 17 | A MAN was due to go on trial at Liverpool Crown Court later today accused of murdering his pregnant wife . |
| 18 | The Glory arrived at eight , well before Jack was due to go to school . |
| 19 | He had left school the previous December , having failed to get into Cambridge , and was due to go to Essex University in September . |
| 20 | In four days time , Karen King was due to go to her Aunt Jane 's on the Isle of Man , still hoping to persuade Jessica to join her on the boat . |
| 21 | The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court . |
| 22 | As the sisters wait for their visas to arrive there is a tinge of sadness for Sister Inge , who was due to go to South Africa with them . |
| 23 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 24 | The new Fono was due to assemble on May 7 . |
| 25 | Erm yeah Ken had one and he 's managed to erm secure early release from erm the lease which was due to finish in July . |
| 26 | Edmundo Pinto , Governor of the western Amazonian state of Acre , was shot dead in a Sao Paulo hotel on May 17 , two days before he was due to testify to a congressional hearing on corruption involving officials in his own state . |
| 27 | The 12-member Citizen 's Forum on Canada 's Future , which was drawn from a cross-section of the country but which excluded serving politicians , was due to report by July 1991 . |
| 28 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 29 | He was due to return to Nottingham next summer to complete the final year of his course . |
| 30 | At the end of his year long stay he was due to return to lectures at Sheffield University . |