Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This summer he 's off to compete in the world cup . |
| 2 | Right , well I suppose the big sporting story of the evening has to be the boxing ; George Forman , who 's forty-one is about to go into the ring in er London 's Docklands arena . |
| 3 | Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' . |
| 4 | The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere . |
| 5 | He is about to perform for the Archimage himself . |
| 6 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 7 | For example , a 30 second live report which is due to take place at the same time as Martina Navratilova is about to serve for the match can be both a reporter 's dream and a producer 's nightmare . |
| 8 | TENNIS umpiring is about to improve with the help of computer technology . |
| 9 | They 're still convinced America is about to implode under the weight of its compounding debt , turning into a bigger version of a Latin American banana republic only without the bananas . |
| 10 | ‘ Also , now that the Council is well settled in its new headquarters at South Gyle and is about to embark on the implementation of Sport 2000 , the strategy designed to take sport in Scotland into the 21st Century , I believe it is a good time to hand over to someone new . ’ |
| 11 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 12 | My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’ |
| 13 | A NEW material that could replace asbestos , silica or ceramic fibre based products is about to come on the market . |
| 14 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 15 | AT long last , it seems as if work on the proposed new greyhound stadium at Ballyskeagh is about to get off the ground following the signing of a deal between Distillery and the Northern Ireland Greyhound Company . |
| 16 | There 's nothing quite like a good Guinness — as Sir Alec is about to prove in the TV drama A Foreign Field |
| 17 | A HEALTH scandal of unimaginable proportions is about to burst on the Government , experts believe . |
| 18 | The Emerald Accordion Band directed by George Bradley , is about to burst onto the Ulster music scene . |
| 19 | Now all that is about to change with the introduction by Land Rover of a new long wheelbase flagship Range Rover Vogue LSE , which is fitted with a world first an electronic air suspension system ( EAS ) . |
| 20 | The new season is about to start for the NMS outstations and visitors can expect to see many new exhibits and displays . |