Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Crockford ! ’ he said , and appeared to be about to go in search . |
| 2 | The key here is that Major may be about to achieve in government what Thatcher never did — indeed , she never tried to achieve it . |
| 3 | I am about to set in motion a peculiar process that will result in a $10 million loan to a Philippine construction company , a bedfellow of the Marcos clan — a loan that will soon go sour . |
| 4 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 5 | The rule had been amended so that nominations for the Committee were restricted to full male or female members of five years standing , and where ladies are concerned , were not to exceed in number the direct ratio to the numerical strength of their respective section . |
| 6 | A new German willingness to compromise on farm subsidies , however , emerged on Oct. 9 , and by Oct. 14 the GATT Director-General Arthur Dunkel was able to tell the IMF/World Bank meeting in Bangkok that there were real prospects of concluding the Uruguay Round by end-year , a deadline he had presented as crucial if the whole process were not to end in failure . |
| 7 | Nationalism , yes , but not narrow : what Burke meant by ‘ the little platoon ’ , and a modern writer in small being beautiful , for the greater the overall unit ( and the Common Market was then looming ) , the greater the necessity for autonomy within that unit , if those being governed were still to feel in touch with those governing . |
| 8 | The aim of this study is thus to examine in detail different kinds of provision for children with special needs in the first year of secondary schooling . |
| 9 | It is soon to appear in paperback ( and will doubtless go ‘ quadruple platinum ’ , or whatever ) and is to be a major TV series . |
| 10 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 11 | for the supply of goods or services and the supplier 's main business is not to engage in investment business |
| 12 | It also seems to be more of a woman 's forte to keep in touch with what is happening in the future . |
| 13 | I think she is about to fall in love again . ’ |
| 14 | This is exactly what Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to do in order to find the resources with which to give the economy its required boost . |
| 15 | Friends , he would have said , agree because they already agree , not because they persuade one another , and the achievement of the group was less to instruct in virtue or in doctrine than to reassure themselves , and others , that religion and modern literature can live together , and that there were those on earth — a previous few — of sympathetic piety and like mind . |
| 16 | He was happily surprised to find that the cottage did indeed live up to Coleridge 's estimate of it , possessing ‘ every thing that heart could desire ’ , including a small flower garden and a climbing rose which Coleridge was soon to commemorate in verse . |
| 17 | He must have wondered what the outcome of it all would be , though he was not to remain in doubt for much longer . |
| 18 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |
| 19 | An increased ceiling was also to apply in respect of rebates for the community charge ( poll tax ) which was being introduced in England and Wales from April 1 , 1990 , to replace domestic rates [ see below ] . |
| 20 | If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation . |
| 21 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 22 | He too was about to figure in Coffin 's confidential TAS report . |
| 23 | I was about to get in touch with you — there are faint signs of life on the part of the Probate Office . |
| 24 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |