Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green concerns may well be about to travel the same route . |
| 2 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
| 3 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 4 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 5 | If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation . |
| 6 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |
| 7 | The five-strong crew thought they were about to suffer the same disaster that struck another British Airways flight in June 1990 . |
| 8 | Finally we can obtain an estimate of the yield There are other , similar measures with slightly different definitions , but the aim is still to estimate the same quantities . |
| 9 | Clearly they can not accommodate both Taylor and Williams , but Alec Evans is though to fancy the latter as captain , having previously been impressed with him playing club rugby in Queensland . |
| 10 | Fat , he believes , is about to follow the same trend . |
| 11 | Here 's how to make the most of your complexion , from cleansing and moisturising to facials and problem-solving . |
| 12 | ‘ I was about to say the same to you . |
| 13 | She was about to do the same with the contents of another file when something made her pause , hair prickling at the back of her head . |
| 14 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 15 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 16 | After a few polite words , Sophie was about to do the same when Giles said , ‘ Do n't go . |
| 17 | I , I was about to ask the same thing , yeah . |
| 18 | The bird might then learn that a certain movement of its bill in relation to a milk bottle results in a meal ; and if the bird was then to perform the same activity on an unopened bottle it might break through the top for itself . |
| 19 | THE ARMY WAS AGAIN TO PERFORM THE SAME SERVICE FOR HIM IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH EXCEPT THAT NEXT TIME IT WAS A GUIDED TOUR OF THE COURSES OF ACTION WHICH WERE NOT OPEN TO HIS GOVERNMENT AS THE GENERAL STRIKE ORGANISED BY THE ULSTER WORKERS ' COUNCIL MOVED TO A CLIMAX . |