Example sentences of "about [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building on the goodwill thus created Mr. Goddard , now retired to Buckinghamshire , set about contacting every Old Stopfordian living within a reasonable distance of London , and on 6th November the inaugural meeting and Dinner of the London Branch of the Association took place , with the Headmaster and Mr. Hitchcock , the President , travelling from Stockport to attend . |
| 2 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 3 | It was clear that we were about to interview a corporate treasure . |
| 4 | Reading Lucas 's article from this side of the Atlantic at a time when unemployment in Britain seems about to hit a post-war high , one is tempted to conclude that there may , after all , be a grain of truth in the mischievous quip attributed to Oscar Wilde : Britain and America are united by a common culture but separated by a common language . |
| 5 | And he 's also managed to sneak in some live music from Mary Chapin Carpenter , who 's been touring Scotland this week and is about to hit the big time . |
| 6 | Peter Dominic is converting its Bottoms Up branches into spacious wine superstores with Hunter & Oliver , its attempt at an identikit wine merchant , about to hit the high street . |
| 7 | On the manufacturing side , Sekers are about to trial the new ‘ Electronic Jacquard ’ — the latest from France , on a sale or return basis . |
| 8 | In his pocket he found a screwdriver and inspected the narrow end as if he were a surgeon about to perform a delicate operation . |
| 9 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 10 | A TOWN which has one of the highest unemployment levels in Wales is about to lose a vital unit which handles income support claims . |
| 11 | ‘ It would seem the people of Middlesbrough are about to lose a valuable free open space for the sake of an enterprise aimed primarily at commercial profit rather than providing a sports facility , ’ she said . |
| 12 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 13 | Around 1500 James set about building a suitable royal palace beside David I 's Holyrood abbey and under the mighty presence of Arthur 's Seat . |
| 14 | In my opinion , they should stop hounding law-abiding citizens and set about catching the obvious culprits , whoever they are . |
| 15 | Robbie 's lips parted , about to issue an angry denial . |
| 16 | Do these general practitioners not realise that they are about to see a major drop in their incomes ? |
| 17 | In his autobiography Prokofiev admitted that he was ‘ not used to denying himself anything ’ , and he was not about to see a promising career inconvenienced by the Russian Revolution . |
| 18 | So are we about to see a kinder , gentler Dolph ? |
| 19 | Let's be honest , I did n't wan na see good sections , I wan na see strong sections , I wan na see vibrant sections , but I also want to see the truth in those documents when it comes back afterwards , so I 'm disappointed on this issue and er I hope something in future will be done about to report the real things that we discussed at conference as well . |
| 20 | Just about to post the same info — from both teletext services . |
| 21 | She ran to the end of the alley and was about to scale the ten-foot wire fence when the bleeper attached to her belt suddenly shrilled into life . |
| 22 | At the moment , there are 5 classrooms , but the school is about to acquire a whole new floor with about 7 more rooms . |
| 23 | Tottie Pig 's Special Birthday by Vivian French and Clive Scruton ( Walker Books , £6.99 ) is perfect for toddlers who are about to acquire a little brother or sister . |
| 24 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 25 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 26 | And the Robert Maxwell empire was just about to launch a new magazine called World Development . |
| 27 | SCOTVEC is about to launch a new type of qualification — general Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 28 | The Police have compiled a list of clubs , organisations and interested bodies and are about to launch a major initiative where such bodies will be visited and the over 60 's seen . |
| 29 | The Select Committee on Agriculture , of which I am a member , is about to launch a major inquiry into Britain 's food trade gap , which is estimated to be about £6 billion . |
| 30 | It 's about to launch a Hollywood-style marketing campaign costing millions of pounds . |