Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price tag is expected to be about £150m . |
| 2 | The six year mortality from CHD in a population like this , getting only their usual physician 's care , was expected to be about 29 per 1000 . |
| 3 | Its price is expected to be about £12,000 — which makes the Reliant a better bargain that even Del Boy could afford . |
| 4 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 5 | Annual expenditure growth is expected to be about 15% and 19% respectively . |
| 6 | Bitwise Designs Inc , New York signed a letter of intent to acquire Electrograph Systems Inc for 333,333 shares of Bitwise common : the combined annual revenues of the two are expected to be about $12m . |
| 7 | The player price had increased and was expected to be about £350 at launch . |
| 8 | The combined payments for March 1993 and June 1993 are expected to be about £9m , a more than 50% increase over the payment in March 1992 . |
| 9 | Admission was expected to be about £4.00 full rate , and there would as usual be concessionary rates . |
| 10 | We can not make forecasts , but in 1991-92 our aid is expected to be about 0.3 per cent . |
| 11 | Pakistan 's economic growth rate for the 1991/92 fiscal year ( ending on June 30 , 1992 ) was estimated at 5.8 per cent , while inflation had dropped from 12.5 to 9.5 per cent , exports were up by 13 per cent and the budget deficit , which had risen to 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1990/91 following the Gulf war , was expected to be about 6 per cent , well short of the IMF 's target of 4.8 per cent . |
| 12 | The figure for 1992 is expected to be about 950 . |
| 13 | The costs of its route are claimed to be about £2.5bn . |
| 14 | Letters are not themselves sounds : they represent the sounds of the spoken language , of which there are considered to be about 44 in standard English . |
| 15 | Although the death rate from asthma in England and Wales is reported to be about 2000 a year , clinical experience suggests that it is much rarer . |
| 16 | The number of deaths from asthma in England and Wales is widely reported to be about 2000 a year . |
| 17 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 18 | There are reckoned to be about 2,000 UK publishers who bring out at least one book during any given six month period . |
| 19 | It is a way of bringing some kind of order to the many diverse things which the scriptures could be said to be about . |
| 20 | She was now to be seen in a small cubby-hole next to Mr Malik 's office , typing furiously , or on the phone to an organization called the Islamic World Unity Fund , which was said to be about to offer Mr Malik and Mr Shah a large sum in US dollars . |
| 21 | OIL-company Amerada Hess is said to be about to announce job losses at its Aberdeen HQ within the next few weeks . |
| 22 | In the Sporting Magazine for March 1794 , there appears a ‘ picturesque view of Palfrey 's Infirmary ’ said to be about a quarter of a mile west of Coventry . |
| 23 | The average wage is said to be about $25.00 a month . |
| 24 | The man who collected the cash-card is said to be about 30 years of age of medium build with black curly hair and clean-shaven . |
| 25 | The youth who slashed John is said to be about 6ft tall , of medium build with short hair and a ‘ Borstal spot ’ tattoo on his right cheek . |
| 26 | The figures are Dataquest estimates of what a buyer actually pays after standard retail discounts , as opposed to list prices.Prices are now seen to be about 10% higher in Europe than in the US , against 25% a year ago . |
| 27 | The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard . |
| 28 | Louise Levine is , in many ways , the antithesis of all the '90's has been hyped to be about , but far from being her weakness , this is her strength . |
| 29 | Louise Levine is , in many ways , the antithesis of all the '90's has been hyped to be about , but far from being her weakness , this is her strength . |
| 30 | Sydney Robin , a former Great Universal Stores director , is thought to be about to take the chair at Control Securities , where Heron has a 17 per cent stake . |