Example sentences of "[noun prp] be about to " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN inquiry is underway at the Serious Fraud Office following a leak suggesting that former boxer George Walker was about to be arrested . |
| 2 | At that moment , back in Bamford , Chief Inspector Markby was about to be given the answer to that question . |
| 3 | The second one-day game in Guyana was played against a background of uncertainty over whether Robin Jackman was about to be asked to vacate the premises . |
| 4 | Lesotho , Madagascar and Mauritius are in the process of implementing schemes ; Burkina Faso , Ghana , Rwanda and the Seychelles are about to . |
| 5 | Mr Bigg said speed restrictions on rail lines in East Anglia were about to be introduced because there was not enough money for line maintenance . |
| 6 | Mr Glynn Ford , Labour leader in the Euro-parliament , said the Tories led by Sir Christopher were about to ‘ live in sin ’ . |
| 7 | But now that the GLC was about to be abolished and GLEB was in trouble , the paper , with Horsley 's enthusiastic support , decided to move to Manchester . |
| 8 | Magna Peccatrix was about to be beatified as Mater Gloriosa . |
| 9 | ‘ For example , last year we checked the collection of European gold coins and a check on Scottish silver at Queen Street is about to be undertaken . |
| 10 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
| 11 | Laura Channing was about to be blackmailed , and my money said Vecchi was the would-be collector on that deal , too . |
| 12 | Now some of you s might still believe in Santa Claus are about to be disillusioned . |
| 13 | The prays … the dreams of the skipper the Reverend Bob Shepton were about to be fulfilled … |
| 14 | THE remote Shetland island of Foula is about to be brought closer with a £750,000 ferry package . |
| 15 | His absence has fuelled rumours that the house of Lacroix is about to be closed by owner and financial backer Bernard Arnault . |
| 16 | Sam was about to be toppled from his ‘ throne ’ . |
| 17 | By 1814 , with the war in the Peninsula ended and the arrival of 10,000 Spanish troops under General Morillo , the prospects for independence were gloomy ; Bolívar had been driven out of Venezuela and New Granada was about to be recaptured . |
| 18 | On the initiative of Kurt W. Forster , until recently Director of the Getty Center in Santa Monica , the first ever complete edition of the writings of Aby Warburg is about to be published in English . |
| 19 | In the pits at Silverstone , the Ferrari 348 GT is about to be test-driven for the the first time . |
| 20 | BAOR was about to be equipped with US Corporal and Honest John missiles with their nuclear warheads held by American custodial teams . |
| 21 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 22 | By 1845 the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield were about to be conquered , and a terminus in Sheffield was opened at Bridgehouses on July 14th of that year . |
| 23 | The last flying Vulcan is about to be sold off . |
| 24 | It is quite a different matter to begin to eat before one 's companions at a table over which Grace is about to be pronounced . |
| 25 | He was overheard saying , ‘ Joaquim Francisco is about to be Governor . |
| 26 | Denis was about to when Noreen interjected . |
| 27 | Or perhaps Graham Mills was about to be named by the defector just before his murder . |
| 28 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 29 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 30 | According to a Yugoslav newspaper report yesterday , which quoted Uefa 's vice-president Freddy Rumo , Dinamo are about to be disbanded . |