Example sentences of "about to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeopardy ’ will be established when , for example , execution is about to be levied against the company . |
| 2 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 3 | ’ ( Threatening picture of a wave rising to overwhelm ; seen from the front , as if the viewer is about to be swallowed and filmed in slow motion to add tension . ) |
| 4 | Sam was about to be toppled from his ‘ throne ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ For example , last year we checked the collection of European gold coins and a check on Scottish silver at Queen Street is about to be undertaken . |
| 6 | The scheme was now financially viable , and the last instalment of a private start-up loan of substantially less than £1m was about to be repaid . |
| 7 | Having learnt its worst fears were about to be realised , that it would be handed over to Chinese rule in 1997 without external protections or guarantees , it immediately put the best possible face on its situation . |
| 8 | Now his running ambitions are about to be realised as Graham explains : ‘ It is every runner 's ambition to run in the London Marathon and just before Christmas I found out I would realise that ambition in April 1993 . |
| 9 | James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were dead , Charles Maurras was a member of the Petain government and would soon be imprisoned for treason , Ezra Pound was about to be indicted on similar charges ( although Eliot refused to assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in their inquiries about him ) . |
| 10 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 11 | Irrationally , as a man about to be beheaded notices every scratch and stain on the executioner 's block , Rincewind saw that they had overlarge tails that were bluish-white and , he realised , throbbing alarmingly . |
| 12 | Prior to the launching of the raids both Iran and Syria had indicated that a Western hostage was about to be freed ( possibly Brian Keenan , a teacher with dual British-Irish nationality held since March 1986 — for his eventual release on Aug. 24 see p. 37668 ) . |
| 13 | Services there are wider , with brain injuries about to be recognised in law . |
| 14 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 15 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 17 | Dexter leant forward across the table to hear better what was about to be said . |
| 18 | The mystery kept secret from all eternity is now about to be made clear . |
| 19 | These problems also obviously apply to the attempt about to be made here . |
| 20 | You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 22 | The next time he went to church she waylaid him after the evening service , and tried to persuade him to enter the hall , where — as he had guessed — a cup of tea was about to be made . |
| 23 | But , thanks to the kindness of a lady in the petrol depot who agreed to phone our host when a delivery was about to be made and where , we eventually refuelled at about 9.00 am on Thursday we set out on the last leg of our journey . |
| 24 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 25 | Workers about to be made redundant at Kington are pessimistic about the chances of finding another job : |
| 26 | Questioned by Mr Macfadyen , he said that at no time had Mackie used the phrase profit warning or give the impression such an announcement was about to be made . |
| 27 | So what of Michael Fallon , anxiously defending a narrow Tory majority in Darlington where the football team has sacked the manager and is about to be relegated . |
| 28 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 29 | The work depicts Mazeppa about to be crushed by his stumbling horse and is estimated to make £200–300,000 ( $360–540,000 ) . |
| 30 | MAMMA Mia Morse — you 're about to be replaced by a roly-poly cop who can scoff a cannelloni faster than you can sink a pint . |