Example sentences of "about [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1901 Haketa persuaded the government to revive legislation forbidding the use of Polish in Pomeranian bilingual schools , and as the task of teaching the language fell increasingly to the Catholic Church , and the clergy felt obliged to give extended ‘ Catechism ’ lessons , so Haketa set about interfering in private language tuition too . |
| 2 | Moreover , by 1961 the EEC was about to engage in serious discussions with Britain and the other applicant states about membership . |
| 3 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 4 | It finally came home then to Delaney what they were about to do in several hours ' time . |
| 5 | Beyond , a heat haze shimmered above the fields which sloped upwards to a wood which seemed about to explode in midgy darkness . |
| 6 | But I , thought Cadfael , on thorns , may be about to pay in full for all my sins . |
| 7 | When , in Frankfurt in October , the talks were foundering , North called it ‘ a great tragedy for those of us who live on this Planet Earth ’ ; nothing less than the misalignment of two spheres that had been about to dance in harmonious orbit . |
| 8 | Danny DeVito is about to star in another film-of-the-play , the high-finance tale Other People 's Money ; Michelle Pfeiffer is likely to co-star |