Example sentences of "are [adv prt] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it wo n't just be the pilots who are out to make the best landings . |
| 2 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 3 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 4 | I must inform you that the same department are about to close the only respite centre ( Astley House in Huyton ) for children and young adults with special needs in the borough , so they can introduce what they call foster caring . |
| 5 | Welcome to these two newcomers but meanwhile , ‘ old hand ’ Diane Bennett tackles the decision of buying a computer for the knitting machine , so do n't miss Oh Brother if you are about to do the same . |
| 6 | On the manufacturing side , Sekers are about to trial the new ‘ Electronic Jacquard ’ — the latest from France , on a sale or return basis . |
| 7 | Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts and get ready to cross the road to the theatre , where several stars of television are about to perform the fabulous musical My Fair Lady . |
| 8 | In a moment we are about to leave the leisured and leisurely world of the eighteenth-century gentlemen and hurtle through the mechanical and material world of nineteenth-century England , where the revolutionary ideas of the aristocratic philosophers will become embodied in the social , political and economic structures of industrial Europe . |
| 9 | The idea is to produce a smooth zig-zag stitch with the sewing machine which does not catch the knitting in the machine foot , does not pucker , stops the cut edge from fraying and gives confidence to those who are about to cut the knitted fabric for the first time . |