Example sentences of "[noun pl] about [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARE European banks about to invade America — again ? |
| 2 | On 23 October 1940 , with France effectively under German control and Mussolini 's troops about to invade Greece , Franco and Hitler met on the Hispano-French border , at the railway station in Hendaye . |
| 3 | Neither are their armies about to join NATO . |
| 4 | Looking ahead to the early twenty-first century , the smaller size of nuclear families in the late twentieth century makes it evident that there will be fewer relatives about to share family care although it is likely that many fewer people will be childless ( Rossiter and Wicks , 1982 , p. 66 ) . |
| 5 | If he had known what fate lay in store for his beloved Boks perhaps State President F.W. de Klerk would have decided against holding a midweek reception for the three teams about to lock horns for the supremacy of the Southern Hemisphere some 200 metres down an old mine shaft on the Johannesburg Reef — Shaft 14 , Gold Reed City , to be precise . |
| 6 | It was common for disasters about to strike stocks to be revealed as late as possible . |
| 7 | Females about to release larvae could easily be isolated into a purpose-designed nursery tank , and with good aeration and the proper food , success — according to Warren Zeiller of Miami Seaquarium — is not too difficult . |
| 8 | Information was sought also about the relationship of topic work to the rest of the curriculum , about the selection of topics or themes , about teachers ' criteria for judging whether topics were successful , and about the advice they would give to student teachers about to tackle project work . |
| 9 | You could offer mock interviews to pupils about to leave school , or a problem-solving activity based on a real life difficulty you have encountered at work . |
| 10 | Few who have read Professor J. F. Verbruggen 's The art of warfare in western Europe during the Middle Ages from the eighth century to 1340 will forget this vivid approach to the subject including , for example , his description of the very human fear experienced by men about to face battle , an emotion also vividly described in the more popular , but no less serious work of John Keegan , The face of battle . ’ |
| 11 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 12 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 13 | This discovery has recently led to the development of a system for measuring the heart-rate of the human foetus before and during labour in women about to give birth . |
| 14 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |
| 15 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |