Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Undertones were due to re-form for the night but John and Damian O'Neill had to return to Derry following the tragic death of their father . |
| 2 | The inner Cabinet was to co-ordinate the work of three groups , chaired respectively by the Labour , Industry and Foreign Ministers , which were due to report in April on social issues , the economy ( including nuclear policy ) , and foreign and security issues . |
| 3 | Roberts commented that all the top officers of KMAG were due to depart for other posts within the next six months , which was disturbing . |
| 4 | Now , we were due to finish at four o'clock but I 'm not suggesting we can get through all the business if we carry on . |
| 5 | Rates in Gloucester were due to fall under the Tories . |
| 6 | The Second World War broke out the day before the majority of deaf schools were due to reassemble after the summer holidays . |
| 7 | Three hundred people at R-A-F Brize Norton and the major Oxford hospitals were due to participate in the excercise which would have simulated a runway collision between a V-C Ten and a Tristar . |
| 8 | They were due to return by Easter 1101 , but they were conveniently delayed , and it was not until September that the result of their mission became known . |
| 9 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 10 | They were due to go to Druid 's Bottom two days before Christmas , but Auntie Lou was ill . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember once he called the squad together ‘ for ten minutes ’ just before we were due to go to dinner . |
| 12 | At breakfast on the day before they were due to arrive in New York Mrs Carson said , ‘ I think you could go below and see your cousins today . |
| 13 | The UN plans to deploy 3,500 soldiers and the first 500 were due to arrive in Mogadishu today . |
| 14 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 15 | Latvia were due to arrive in Belfast this afternoon and training at Windsor Park tonight . |
| 16 | Pupils were due to join in a tree-planting project today . |
| 17 | Other UN personnel and allied military observers were due to leave in June following the expiry of the agreement with Baghdad . |
| 18 | We were due to open on Thursday . |
| 19 | The offer was made in a statement to the local Basque news media , two weeks before the Olympic Games were due to open in Barcelona . |
| 20 | The Chippendales were due to perform at the Leisure Centre two years ago . |
| 21 | The proceedings , the ministerial phase of which , held on Sept. 10-12 , was attended by Foreign Ministers from the 35 participating countries of the CSCE , were due to continue until Oct. 4 in conjunction with parallel events organized by non-governmental bodies . |
| 22 | Only Flokati and Upper Gumtree were due to run at Winnipeg … |
| 23 | Boro were due to play at Kelso , but declined their hosts ' request to play tonight . |
| 24 | In 1965 , THE WHO were due to play in Dublin . |
| 25 | Part B of this interim report to the Science and Engineering Research Council is concerned with the initial destinations of research students working in the information engineering area whose SERC studentships were due to end during 1984 . |
| 26 | The Science and Engineering Research Council provided a list of the names and departments of the 171 information engineering research students whose grants were due to end in 1984 . |
| 27 | It has to be remembered that the students whose grants were due to end in 1984 had commenced their research work before the expansionist IT Initiative , and are smaller in number than those who will be completing their research work ( or grant entitlement ) from the mid-1980s onwards . |
| 28 | Of certain important deaths that were due to occur at two o'clock . |
| 29 | initial destinations questionnaires were sent to 171 SERC-funded students : SERC provided details of the names and departments of students holding information engineering awards that were due to come to an end in 1984 ; |
| 30 | Joe and Terry had finished their training and were due to come on leave when Joe was promoted to Lance Corporal and sent on a course , and Terry came home alone . |