Example sentences of "is [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Life is about to wriggle out of the arms of death itself .
2 Dominic Woosey purveys his own brand of ambient House , lightly peppered with acidic loops , whilst Cosmic Baby turns the acid machines up full and demonstrates why Germany is about to take off in the same way that Belgium did last year .
3 The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller .
4 THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company .
5 A full-length musical based on the biblical story of Job is about to burst on to the stage in York .
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