Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv prt] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 2 | The train from the Back of Beyond is about to arrive at the Middle of Nowhere . |
| 3 | As an example of our approach to regeneration areas , work on the redevelopment of the Crown Street project has progressed to the point where most of the roads and services are in place and work is about to start on the first 200 houses . |
| 4 | The topmost edge of the sun was about to dip beyond the North Water . |
| 5 | Always the boy was about to plunge over the precipice . |
| 6 | The 13-year-old singer was about to audition for the joint BBC-RTE television talent show Go For It when his larynx let him down . |
| 7 | ‘ And the Court was about to assemble for the procession to the Plain . |
| 8 | The accident happened just as the duo were about to turn into the hairpin before the pits straight on the Adelaide street circuit . |
| 9 | The new season is about to start for the NMS outstations and visitors can expect to see many new exhibits and displays . |
| 10 | Holland gained few glimpses of goal after that , although Taffarel failed to hold a hard low centre from Berghuis eight minutes before half-time and was fortunate that no Dutchman was around to pounce on the loose ball . |
| 11 | The wolf was about to descend on the little pigs . |
| 12 | Sensing that the old woman was about to rise from the bench , the cat jumped from her lap and stood by her side . |
| 13 | Ace was about to shut off the power , abandon the speeder and enter the smoking blackness of the.building , when she heard Daak 's voice . |
| 14 | Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights . |
| 15 | TENNIS umpiring is about to improve with the help of computer technology . |
| 16 | Loretta was about to knock on the window and ask for further directions , when she shrugged and gave up . |
| 17 | I arrived at Salisbury Cathedral , just as the bride was about to go up the aisle . |
| 18 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 19 | For at seven o'clock in the morning of 20 August in that year , the inscription has it , just as the citadel was about to fall to the besiegers , a white cross was seen in the sky ‘ above and to the right of the town ’ , which then became a crucifix whose crown turned encouragingly ( for the French ) into a royal fleur-de-lis . |
| 20 | Their source of money was about to disappear over the horizon . |
| 21 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 22 | Brazil had only five cases of infection but the real fear was that cholera was about to spread from the Peruvian into the Brazilian Amazonian river system . |