Example sentences of "about [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there were large numbers of spectators who simply had no idea that you should be quiet when a golfer is about to hit a shot . |
| 2 | I thought for one moment he was about to perform a Highland Fling . |
| 3 | Here was his dog about to kill a lamb and he just stood there doing nothing . |
| 4 | Conservationists are about to conduct a census of one of our rarest mammals — the dormouse . |
| 5 | ‘ We were about to conduct a study into the skin damage problem on Miller wells , ’ said Paul Adair , team leader on Miller well operations . |
| 6 | Sergeant Nafi gives me a knowing look and I realise we are about to see a repeat performance of the Greek tragedy play . |
| 7 | The 20th Century Fox logo always made me think we were about to see a war film , as the searchlights that had woken us in London in the blitz always preceded an air-raid . |
| 8 | EAU d'Huddersfield , until now submerged among gritty northern brews like dandelion and burdock , is about to mount an assault on the Perrier market for continental mineral water . |
| 9 | It 's been a price worth paying as Leeds are now one of the most powerful sides in the land and are about to mount an assault on the European Cup . |
| 10 | ‘ I had no idea that I was entering such a Hall of Fame , ’ he went on , and was about to enjoy a ride on an air bubble of loquacity when Mrs Robinson addressed a cat and the cat said ‘ No ! ’ |
| 11 | Chinese thrift is more from necessity than idealism ; the world 's concern about the hole in the ozone layer is bad news to the billion Chinese about to acquire a refrigerator per household . |
| 12 | THE JAPANESE government is about to launch a scheme to develop robots to work in ‘ extreme environments ’ , for instance in nuclear reactors . |
| 13 | ALEADING chain of booksellers is about to launch a price-cutting war , which could spell an end to the trade 's controversial Net Book Agreement . |
| 14 | We 've been running the management skills courses since nineteen eighty-six , and since then , more than seven hundred and fifty people , from groups such as yours , have taken a part , and we 're about to launch a phase two in the next er , year or so . |
| 15 | The University has established a Museums Committee to permit more formal discussion of common problems amongst its museums and is about to launch a review of the Ashmolean . |
| 16 | This was quickly followed by a spate of bid rumours , the most sensational of which was that Adia , the big Swiss-based recruitment consultant , was about to launch a takeover bid . |
| 17 | Widespread but unconfirmed reports suggested that the prison governor , Brendan O'Friel , who later spoke of the riot originating in " an explosion of evil " , had been overruled when about to launch an assault on the prison on the second day of the occupation . |
| 18 | Stirling was told that the army was about to launch an attack and that the destruction of aircraft on the forward landing fields was vital . |
| 19 | As for Egypt , I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman is seriously suggesting that it is about to launch an attack on Israel , or is to be feared in that connection . |
| 20 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had decided to use some of the proceeds from its sale of the Harrison-Towns field to build squash-courts , and the Parents ' Association was about to launch an Appeal to raise money for a swimming pool , the lack of which had been bemoaned since the move to Buxton Road . |
| 21 | Hartley Green , the elder , is about to establish an academy at Manchester , and might find employment for his Brother , but he wishes rather to make his own way . |
| 22 | He added that O2 is about to finalise an agreement with Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , for ‘ some kind of commercial cooperation in Germany . ’ |
| 23 | He added that O2 is about to finalise an agreement with Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , for ‘ some kind of commercial cooperation in Germany . ’ |
| 24 | They warned the Queen 's private secretary Sir Alan Lascelles that the Queen was about to meet an eccentric . |
| 25 | He was about to catch a taxi home from Swindon town centre at just after midnight , when he stopped at public toilets . |
| 26 | A shiver of eager excitement surged through his loins and into his breast , contracting his chest muscles as if he were about to suffer a heart attack . |
| 27 | Nicholson had turned such a deep shade of purple Hugo thought he was about to suffer a stroke . |
| 28 | You look as if you 're about to butcher a carcass . |
| 29 | He saved all his problems up for sympathetic women who were not about to write a piece on him . |
| 30 | I was about to accept a lift home from B.B. and John , a double act who were working Sheffield that night , when my name was called . |