Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] about [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his surprise , when he reached the office he found the green car drawn up outside and the Prince about to go in . |
| 2 | The absence of a train-shed from the Gare d'Orsay was symptomatic of the change about to overtake station-building . |
| 3 | Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section . |
| 4 | Was the Queen about to warn her in much the same way as Simon de Villiers had done ? |
| 5 | Was the underdog about to have his day ? |
| 6 | ‘ A fine ambition , ’ scolded his victim , unmoved by the fate about to befall her . |
| 7 | Not only is the venue about to change , but so might the whole basis of the competition . |
| 8 | 11:12 ) to Jesus ' independent career was signalled by the priority of ‘ the reign of God ’ over ‘ the wrath about to come ’ … |
| 9 | I was sitting in the sitting-room about to make a cup of coffee when I heard a huge bang and I thought the whole house was going to cave in . |
| 10 | The student about to undertake research in materials science may be motivated by curiosity about the nature of common materials : why some are soft , some hard , some strong , and some brittle , and whether these differences can be explained satisfactorily in terms of their microstructure . |
| 11 | But what I needed them for was to deliver the heart , rubescent and entire , to the woman about to answer the bell at number 68 . |
| 12 | The Labour MP John Stonehouse had a private member 's bill on the subject about to begin its passage through the Commons . |
| 13 | There they gathered , the employee who lacks employment , the faithless priest , the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty , the physician who will not be able to heal herself , the director who lacks all direction , the historian who denies the existence of history , the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography , the deaf man who hears voices , the woman about to be taken in adultery . |
| 14 | Now , in these quiet moments as I wait for the world about to awake , I find myself going over in my mind again passages from Miss Kenton 's letter . |
| 15 | It is not yet an issue of epidemic proportions with the gays of the world about to suffer the fate of the citizens of Sodom . |
| 16 | The abbeys and priories I passed slumbered gently in the lee of fresh green hills , unaware of the destruction about to crawl from the hellish pit of Henry 's lusts . |
| 17 | Although the quantity of its output so far may not satisfy some observers , there is every reason to believe that , over the next year , preparers , auditors and users will be suffering from indigestion as a result of the material about to emerge from the pipeline . |
| 18 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 19 | He was as psyched up as a footballer about to step out on to the field on Super Bowl Sunday — but he would be sustaining this level of feverish anticipation all winter . |
| 20 | He pulled the jeans down around her hips , feeling skin so smooth beneath his hands it was almost fluid ; her whole body a slow curve , like a wave about to break over him . |
| 21 | In the centre in chocolate icing was the shape of a horse about to jump , and twenty-one candles were to form the perimeter fence-posts of the dirt track . |
| 22 | Dorcas would n't have brought me in here if he knew there was a monster about to bite me . |
| 23 | He took a deep breath , then another , like a diver about to plunge into the depths , and nodded . |
| 24 | His shoulders rose as he took a deep breath like a diver about to plunge . |
| 25 | This should make it look like a cat about to fight , but strangely it does not . |
| 26 | Like a mouse sensing a cat about to pounce . |
| 27 | The house grew still but it was a menacing stillness , like that of a cat about to spring . |
| 28 | I feel like a bomb about to detonate . |
| 29 | It 's a crisis about to get worse , because the farmers of Yarislavl are set to go on strike , if their demands are n't met , then one of the largest agricultural centres in the country will cut supplies of milk , poultry and meat . |
| 30 | ‘ And there 's a war about to start . |