Example sentences of "[conj] be about to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 2 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 3 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 4 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 5 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 6 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 7 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 8 | Nowadays , most excavations are conducted on sites that are about to be destroyed , and so when the excavation is finished , the site is left to its fate . |
| 9 | A more effective cry is ‘ Fire ’ because everyone sticks their heads out in case it is their house or car that is about to be burnt down . |
| 10 | Yarns will also be stored there , allowing more production space for the ‘ Templetwist ’ range of carpet that is about to be manufactured by Lyles . |
| 11 | I 'm speaking as a bus driver , yes , within a company that 's about to be privatized , and yes of course the bottom line is important and management think that it is vitally important and we know no longer get subsidies from any where including the Government , unlike your erm Local District Council , operated services so its very , very difficult for people in our position to actually keep services on the road if they do n't pay . |
| 12 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 13 | The year is 1988 , and Wadsley Bridge buildings have received the attention of the local vandals and are about to be demolished . |
| 14 | The pristine Gondola has just emerged from the new paint-shop , opened in 1922 , and is about to be moved sideways on the traverser . |
| 15 | So what of Michael Fallon , anxiously defending a narrow Tory majority in Darlington where the football team has sacked the manager and is about to be relegated . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 17 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 18 | Charlie had evidently been forgiven , and was about to be fed . |
| 19 | Perhaps Marek Nowak was a KGB agent and was about to be named by the defector . |
| 20 | She turned and was about to deck him when she realized that his needler was aimed at her stomach . |
| 21 | According to the Save The Children Fund the country was on the edge of famine and was about to " plummet into large-scale death from malnutrition " . |