Example sentences of "is [adv prt] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.

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1 Is there in Eastern Europe a hideous environmental prototype of what is about to happen in the developing world ?
2 After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills .
3 That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops .
4 She is about to compete in the British championships in Bavaria .
5 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 . ’
6 There 's nothing quite like a good Guinness — as Sir Alec is about to prove in the TV drama A Foreign Field
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