Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] [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 | We should all be out to clean up the game . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I am about to set up a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with an Amiracle SL 250 Pro Plus filter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Do n't let this dishearten you , the little greenies are there to soak up the enemy 's attention after all . |
| 12 | What plans are there to tighten up the foster service vetting which , in this case , allowed a known homosexual to adopt a child ? |
| 13 | 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 ! ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One that seems to work well for many managers is merely to divide up the list into three types of activity : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 24 | A team of Bristol University surgeons is soon to carry out the ring trials at Bristol Eye Hospital with volunteer patients . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The main thing is not to point out the ‘ factual error ’ because for the person talking it is n't a mistake . |
| 27 | The trick is not to turn up the sound . |
| 28 | The object of the following analysis is not to carry out a Stalinist witch-hunt of the text in order to pillory a deviant , existential , petty-bourgeois discourse ensconced illegitimately at the centre of Nizan 's literary production . |
| 29 | Then the punishing firm ‘ s best response to this is not to carry out the punishment but to produce its corresponding profit maximizing output . |
| 30 | If I also say to him that the lesson we learn from the United States is not to go down the route that he and his party have signed up to in signing up to a socialist manifesto for the European elections . |