Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ We 're about to pick up a very valuable thing . |
| 2 | So the cost of Prestel is going to be a local phone call plus an access fee , for the time you 're connected , and any extra charges you notch up by looking at paid-for pages ( the price per page is always in the top right-hand corner and you 're warned if you 're about to run up a charge ) . |
| 3 | Down in the dungeon of the first division , Rosslyn Park and Nottingham are still to get off the mark . |
| 4 | I 'm not to grow up an Irish yob . |
| 5 | Considering that those infants who were born to 20–24 years old mothers had , recently , the best survival chances in Hungary , and that the husbands , on the average , were three or four years older than the mothers , the association of paternal age with infant mortality is not surprising , and may even be though to reflect only the maternal age effect . |
| 6 | We should all be out to clean up the game . |
| 7 | I think David thought he was the artist and he knew what he wanted to do — which I think is actually true — the artist basically does know what he wants to do — but I think the manager should just be there to sort out the finance and try to keep you on a the straight and narrow . |
| 8 | Whether you 're looking for bowls of bulbs to brighten the home or the best miniatures for a rock garden , now 's the time to start work and Daphne Ledward and Anne Swithinbank are here to pass on a host of colourful ideas . |
| 9 | I am about to set up a mixed fish/invertebrate tank , and I would be very grateful if you could tell me more about Kalkwasser , which fishkeepers in the USA are using to dose their marine systems . |
| 10 | I am about to set up a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with an Amiracle SL 250 Pro Plus filter . |
| 11 | I am about to suggest maybe the new baby would like to return to Maternity or wherever , when a new voice comes through the door . |
| 12 | 155 professional women have expressed interest in joining , membership has passed the break-even point and Prue and Shelley , now joint presidents , are about to hand over the administration to an established committee . |
| 13 | We are there to attend not a play but a performance . |
| 14 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 15 | What plans are there to tighten up the foster service vetting which , in this case , allowed a known homosexual to adopt a child ? |
| 16 | There are three battlefields to yomp through and , rest assured , plenty of the Generals minions are there to roll out the red carpet for Cap and the major ( at least the blood stains wo n't show ! ) . |
| 17 | The substance of building surveying has not changed appreciably over the years and while certain aspects of the more academic subjects of economics and law have been latterly introduced , they were there to prop up the whole discipline rather than to provide invaluable information . |
| 18 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 19 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 20 | In France , meeting with the head of Ariola Records , the company responsible for distributing Virgin in that country , Branson listened with interest as the managing director told him excitedly that Ariola were about to pull off an enormous coup by signing Julien Clerc , France 's Frank Sinatra . |
| 21 | The objectives of the policy are firstly to set out the attitude of the Wedgwood Group and , to elaborate on methods of dealing with alcohol problems in the workplace . |
| 22 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 23 | The experimental method is basically to lay out a long row of test-tubes each containing a solution of RNA-replicase , and also of raw materials , small molecules that can be used for RNA synthesis . |
| 24 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 25 | The one-year course is only to lay down the foundations of good technical training — and it is widely recognised that the course simply pushes the student into the profession with enough practical experience to find his or her feet . |
| 26 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 27 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 28 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 29 | The main thing is not to point out the ‘ factual error ’ because for the person talking it is n't a mistake . |
| 30 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |