Example sentences of "[noun] [be] about to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forms have been prepared for the assessment process , and amendments to the Client Index to support needs assessment are about to be commissioned . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged — the oil moguls , the aerospace kings , the old movie-studio emperors — have now mostly left the scene : their firms broken up , in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners . |
| 4 | Er both got feet in just as goals were about to be shot and scored . |
| 5 | A monument is about to be unveiled on Malta , GC . |
| 6 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 7 | Section 4(1) provides that the offence is committed if the defendants act with intent to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence is about to be used , or with intent to provoke such unlawful violence . |
| 8 | The setting is right , and some feel that a murder is about to be committed . |
| 9 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 10 | The restaurant even has a division bell on one of its walls to alert dining MPs when a vote is about to be held . |
| 11 | AN inquiry is underway at the Serious Fraud Office following a leak suggesting that former boxer George Walker was about to be arrested . |
| 12 | Which megastar was about to beamed in from a Hollywood poolside to give a transatlantic Tory thumbs up ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With glum weariness , Dauntless realised that , in order to keep to his quest , he would either have to restrain Cleo physically , which the Dratslingers might prevent , or else accompany her to whatever eldritch ceremony was about to be performed . |
| 15 | At that moment , back in Bamford , Chief Inspector Markby was about to be given the answer to that question . |
| 16 | The campaign , together with the circulation of increased rebel propaganda within the armed forces , intensified rumours that a fresh coup attempt was about to be launched against the government of President Corazon Aquino . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The book which contained the fruits of Dr Jaffery 's labours was about to be published . |
| 19 | Butlin knew that the leisure industry was about to be revolutionised by a law forcing employers to give their workers holiday with pay . |
| 20 | The second one-day game in Guyana was played against a background of uncertainty over whether Robin Jackman was about to be asked to vacate the premises . |
| 21 | Opportunities for Scottish students to learn about artificial intelligence are about to be augmented by the development of a new family of modules in AI . |
| 22 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |
| 23 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 24 | Lesotho , Madagascar and Mauritius are in the process of implementing schemes ; Burkina Faso , Ghana , Rwanda and the Seychelles are about to . |
| 25 | Mr Bigg said speed restrictions on rail lines in East Anglia were about to be introduced because there was not enough money for line maintenance . |
| 26 | Mr Glynn Ford , Labour leader in the Euro-parliament , said the Tories led by Sir Christopher were about to ‘ live in sin ’ . |
| 27 | He said it correctly suspecting that the Conservatives were about to be pitched back into opposition by Lord Aberdeen 's coalition of Peelites , Whigs and Liberals . |
| 28 | How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside . |
| 29 | I feel that a flaw in Heavenly Father 's plan is about to be rectified by immutable powers . |
| 30 | ‘ A minerals and waste local plan is about to be prepared and it will form the basis for the control and location of quarries and landfill sites in the county for the next 20 years , ’ said CLA regional secretary Jolyon Dodgson . |