Example sentences of "[noun] are about [prep] be " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The cattle are about to be sold , but they wo n't move any further than the farmers ' field . |
| 8 | Now some of you s might still believe in Santa Claus are about to be disillusioned . |
| 9 | Shaman Will Sinnet and your reporter are about to be put onto the same wavelength . |
| 10 | Shaman Will Sinnet and your reporter are about to be put onto the same wavelength . |
| 11 | The report lists 28 items of legislation to achieve the reductions , some of which have already been passed , while others are about to be passed or are under discussion . |
| 12 | Her findings are about to be published by Oxford University Press in a book called The Adapted Mind . |
| 13 | Road pricing is now firmly established in Singapore and the windscreen stickers are about to be superseded by electronics . |
| 14 | PLANS to reduce chronic delays in paying compensation for criminal injuries are about to be announced by the Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , after criticism that some victims are having to wait more than two years for an award . |
| 15 | I am disappointed that we have still been given no sign that the means necessary to contain violence and to disrupt the command and control structure of the IRA are about to be implemented . |
| 16 | ( e ) when negotiations or discussions between the offeror and the target are about to be extended beyond a very small group of people ( ie the persons in the companies concerned who need to know and their immediate advisers ) . |
| 17 | Alternatively , the presence of platelet activating factor reflects not only inflammatory cell infiltration , but may also represents a stage of inflammatory amplification in which inflammatory cells are about to be recruited . |
| 18 | According to a Yugoslav newspaper report yesterday , which quoted Uefa 's vice-president Freddy Rumo , Dinamo are about to be disbanded . |