Example sentences of "[noun] were about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Er both got feet in just as goals were about to be shot and scored . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On Dec. 19 Yeltsin returned early from an official visit to China [ see also p. 39236 ] , apparently because of fears that conservative figures were about to be promoted to government posts . |
| 7 | The prays … the dreams of the skipper the Reverend Bob Shepton were about to be fulfilled … |
| 8 | Prior Tuathal pulled his hood absently over his reddening crown and sat , his chin in the sun , bending his sharp intelligence to the exchange between the Earl and the King by which all his theories were about to be tested . |
| 9 | One of the ways — perhaps the chief one — in which 1945 — 90 did indeed make a distinct period was that in 1990 those limits were about to be stretched by the provision of satellite services . |
| 10 | The governments of Christian-dominated Lebanon and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan feared that Nasser-inspired coups were about to be sprung in Beirut and Amman . |
| 11 | They followed the Irishman and other suspects for weeks and launched a series of dramatic raids only when they feared bombs were about to be planted . |
| 12 | By 1845 the Pennines between Manchester and Sheffield were about to be conquered , and a terminus in Sheffield was opened at Bridgehouses on July 14th of that year . |
| 13 | and the fives courts were about to be demolished . |
| 14 | She calmed down , and told me that she had a sudden impression , walking across the little valley , of women and children in great danger ; nothing else , but a terrible feeling that women and children were about to be harmed . |
| 15 | In 1968 , the watershed year of the student riots in Paris , when most of the new generation of radicals were denouncing the Labour Party as hopelessly fuddy-duddy , he had joined up , believing it would one day become the focus for a new alliance of Right-On movements , Now , more than a decade on , his dream was starting to come true and the new radical politics were about to be released on an unsuspecting populace — with mixed results . |