Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 2 | Lucky Jim is too confident a book to be called angry , its predominating mood a scorn for a stuffy old order about to be swept away ; but some of Amis 's later novels , such as Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , which was written by a sexagenarian , fizzle with fury . |
| 3 | No one replied with glad tidings of a perfect dinner about to be served . |
| 4 | Another possible fix is to use the /P switch which prompts you ( Y/N ) for each file about to be restored . |
| 5 | Opening the meeting of the Economic Planning Council , the Chairman , Lord Hampshire , surprised members by announcing that the Prime Minister intended to sit in on the transport debate , which was the subject of a White Paper about to be discussed on the floor of the House . |
| 6 | Blair is a famous actress about to be divorced from her second husband Morgan . |
| 7 | He is writing a second book with his mind guru , Dr Robin Skynner , and is the subject of a major biography about to be published . |
| 8 | Their subjects range from property and land ( in contrast to the country-wide bill about to be discussed in the Moscow Supreme Soviet , Estonia will explicitly recognise private ownership ) to migration and — most delicate of all — currency and finance . |
| 9 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 10 | regular meetings at specified frequency about to be organised |
| 11 | He felt he might have been a lord , or at least a prosperous shopkeeper about to be driven to his mansion — except that there was no horse . |
| 12 | The Potsdam declaration by the allies — to which the Soviet Union was not a signatory — had warned Japan to accept unconditional surrender but without stating frankly enough how terrible was the new weapon about to be deployed against Japan . |
| 13 | The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children , then herself . |
| 14 | Nick Irens , finance director of First Leisure , is leaving to become chief executive of a new company about to be launched , First Leisure said yesterday . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's him ! ’ she said , pointing to a dark-haired child with a scowling face about to be struck by a huge hand coming from the top right-hand corner . |