Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] about to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 3 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 4 | Charlie had evidently been forgiven , and was about to be fed . |
| 5 | Perhaps Marek Nowak was a KGB agent and was about to be named by the defector . |