Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having just metaphorically done in front of the vicar , small children and grandparents what they are about to do in the bridal suite , they offer everyone a small , naughty slice . |
| 2 | Digital cordless telephone services — telepoint — are about to start in the UK , and low cost personal communications networks are due to begin in 1992 or 1993 . |
| 3 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 4 | He had been dreaming that he and his friend Aidan Lynch were on Death Row in some American prison and they were about to die in the electric chair . |
| 5 | This summer he 's off to compete in the world cup . |
| 6 | Now she 's about to compete in the first ever round-the-world air race . |
| 7 | Is there in Eastern Europe a hideous environmental prototype of what is about to happen in the developing world ? |
| 8 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 9 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 10 | She is about to compete in the British championships in Bavaria . |
| 11 | My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’ |
| 12 | There 's nothing quite like a good Guinness — as Sir Alec is about to prove in the TV drama A Foreign Field |
| 13 | Then it was back to relax in the Granby Village leisure complex with its swimming pool , Jacuzzi , sauna and gymnasium before going out on the town to enjoy a slap-up meal . |