Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the search has been on to acquire a Lockheed Constellation for the collection . |
| 2 | I mean I have gone to the trouble , I have been in to see the planning officer that 's dealing with it , erm I 've written to every single member of the planning committee , I 've written to the Environmental Health who have written back to me saying they offer no objections and there because the smell wo n't be a problem so I 've written them back another stinking letter and saying well erm |
| 3 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 4 | Instead he said : ‘ Look , we 're here to run a power station efficiently and safely . |
| 5 | The Maestro and Montego will continue to be built at the south works , but negotiations are underway to sell the Maestro production line to Bulgaria . |
| 6 | " Actually , I 'm off to join the search party . |
| 7 | The simple option would be simply to destroy the beef mountain , which overhangs and damages the entire world market . |
| 8 | I 'm about to commence the brain surgery . ’ |
| 9 | Surely they must be about to close the bomb shop down . |
| 10 | Of course , the financing of such an increase in government spending by the sale of an equivalent quantity of government bonds will tend to raise interest rates and thus choke off some private expenditure , but unless the interest elasticity of private expenditure is very high , or the interest elasticity of the demand for money very low , the net effect of an increase in government spending will be significantly to raise the equilibrium level of aggregate demand at any price level . |
| 11 | We are here to have a committee meeting about the Season , and about your attitude , and indeed about whether we can go on with the Season at all . ’ |
| 12 | English winegrowers are about to harvest a record crop of grapes — but it could lead to them facing new restrictions on production in the future . |
| 13 | Sergeant Nafi gives me a knowing look and I realise we are about to see a repeat performance of the Greek tragedy play . |
| 14 | Tom Verlaine was the driving force behind New York art punks Television , whose Marquee Moon debut remains a rock classic , and who are about to release a comeback album after some 15 years apart . |
| 15 | The business includes beef , sheep and a farmshop , but the dairy has never stopped growing from its small beginnings and the Rowlands are about to open a factory unit nearby . |
| 16 | One Irish League Club — Ballymena Utd are about to stage a rock concert with 20,000 punters expected ! |
| 17 | You are about to begin an eating plan that will both satisfy your appetite and reduce the amount of fat on your body . |
| 18 | You are there to do a damage limitation exercise , to do the best that you can in difficult circumstances . |
| 19 | With the publication of the Foreign Relations of the United States volumes on the Korean War and the release of the British documents it was evident that Britain had played a major role in the important decisions taken in the early stages of the war , and in particular the decision to change the aim of the operation from being merely to repel the aggressor north of the 38th parallel to that of achieving a unified Korea . |
| 20 | But they , with other accountants , were soon to leave the search business — which they found ‘ 10% income 90% headache ’ — and the field on the West Coast was left wide open for Korn/Ferry , whose only competitors were Heidrick and Struggles in Los Angeles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Without even tossing a coin into the fountain we were about to experience the fairytale hospitality of the champenoise . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality . |
| 25 | And the the logic of what 's being said there is effectively to abandon the flexitime scheme out of , for working out of office hours , . |
| 26 | Then , on closer inspection , it emerges that there are oddities in this particular instance ( as there are in so many cases ) and the quest is on to identify the survival value of these particular idiosyncrasies . |
| 27 | All can be upgraded using Intel 's clock-doubling OverDrive technology which is soon to offer an upgrade path to Pentium standard performance . |
| 28 | Such figures underline how important it is not to forget the North-South divide amid the dust thrown up by the Eastern Europe upheaval . |
| 29 | This is not to protect the LIFESPAN image , but to ensure that users trying to log on to LIFESPAN get the correct response from LNAP ( LIFESPAN Not Available Process ) ; ie. that the process is not available . |
| 30 | Okay but we do n't your the responsibility of the sales consultant here is not to approach the estate agent or the golf to sell that , somebody else does that . |