Example sentences of "[is] [adv prt] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halcyon days indeed but now the trio have broken up and McWilliams after another brief spell in England is back searching around for mounts . |
| 2 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 3 | The Gate House project 's about to open up in the middle of town , which is a drop in centre , sponsored by city centre churches . |
| 4 | Oh , he 's not abandoning his most famous role ; but he 's about to pop up in all sorts of other places — and sporting a groovy new haircut … |
| 5 | The barman even told him he 'd had enough — something they rarely do unless they think a client 's about to throw up over the upholstery or start taking his clothes off . |
| 6 | Life is about to wriggle out of the arms of death itself . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you realize , ’ he said , ‘ that the whole school is about to go up in flames today ? ’ |
| 8 | Dominic Woosey purveys his own brand of ambient House , lightly peppered with acidic loops , whilst Cosmic Baby turns the acid machines up full and demonstrates why Germany is about to take off in the same way that Belgium did last year . |
| 9 | WELL and truly ramped , the Tokyo stockmarket is about to shut down for Japan 's annual Golden Week holiday . |
| 10 | Will he confirm that it would be grossly irresponsible for any Government to cut the standard rate of income tax when public borrowing is about to shoot up in that way and that consequently , if the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes such a cut in his next Budget , he will have to make it up by increasing other taxes — perhaps VAT ? |
| 11 | The boy is about to reach out for it when Dixie whispers urgently in his ear . |
| 12 | The moribund mainframe market is about to wake up to a flurry of developments in the storage area , with Hitachi Data Systems Inc preparing to announce a Symmetrix-type disk array for mainframes on May 25 , and IBM Corp following up a week later with launch of the 3390-9 disk drive , which is now expected to be accompanied by a new 3990-4 controller . |
| 13 | THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company . |
| 14 | Professor Eloff ( Northern Transvaal ) is representing Dr Danie Craven , who has run South African rugby for more than 30 years and is about to stand down on grouds of age and health . |
| 15 | Roger Hardman of broking house James Capel reckons the smaller company is about to come back into fashion in a very big way . |
| 16 | A full-length musical based on the biblical story of Job is about to burst on to the stage in York . |
| 17 | There are suggestions that bid action is about to break out with Fitzwilton , the vehicle of Dr Tony O'Reilly , the favourite to strike . |
| 18 | A war is about to break out between rival radio stations , battling for the ears of half a million listeners . |