Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A monument is about to be unveiled on Malta , GC . |
| 2 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 3 | Section 4(1) provides that the offence is committed if the defendants act with intent to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence is about to be used , or with intent to provoke such unlawful violence . |
| 4 | The setting is right , and some feel that a murder is about to be committed . |
| 5 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 6 | The restaurant even has a division bell on one of its walls to alert dining MPs when a vote is about to be held . |
| 7 | How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside . |
| 8 | I feel that a flaw in Heavenly Father 's plan is about to be rectified by immutable powers . |
| 9 | ‘ A minerals and waste local plan is about to be prepared and it will form the basis for the control and location of quarries and landfill sites in the county for the next 20 years , ’ said CLA regional secretary Jolyon Dodgson . |
| 10 | Now the dialysis machine is about to be taken back to the hospital and Richard is hoping for a healthy future . |
| 11 | Similarly , the Library 's problems are unique and specialised , and a third LAN is about to be installed to run specialist software for library information management . |
| 12 | Fessey ( 1988 ) maintains that assertiveness techniques should be used only if a need requires expression or a right is about to be denied . |
| 13 | Should all this be conveniently forgotten now that the boycott is about to be lifted ? |
| 14 | The site 's about to be developed by Tarmac Construction , but Thamesdown Media Arts wants part of it to be set aside for a museum , telling the story — the whole story — of those who worked there . |
| 15 | This process , called Scanning , is carried out automatically every time a module is about to be entered into LIFESPAN , whether the module is new or a modified version of an existing one . |
| 16 | The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked . |
| 17 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 18 | Banks ' long-term prime-lending rate is about to be raised for the second month in a row , to 5.4% ( up from 4.9% two months ago ) , which will trigger a similar increase in mortgage rates . |
| 19 | Emlyn Hughes International Soccer is about to be released on the Touchdown label for the rather reasonable price of just £3.99 . |
| 20 | If you know that your dog is about to be humanely destroyed and you plan to bury it at home , you may find it easier to prepare the grave beforehand . |
| 21 | If I notice the banker fidget and look at his watch , I may well conjecture that the game is about to be brought to an end , and I may therefore feel tempted to defect . |
| 22 | An entire population of rare tree frogs on Hong Kong 's Chek Lap Kok island is to be destroyed to make way for the construction of a new international airport , for which the island is about to be blown up . |
| 23 | The ferret is about to be recovered from a home-made trap . |
| 24 | Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year . |
| 25 | Five years after they split , they are more influential than ever and their back catalogue is about to be reissued . |
| 26 | They know that yet another public asset is about to be hived off , with more promises of greater efficiency and better public service . |
| 27 | A huge contribution to Britain 's export drive is about to be crated up and shipped to America . |
| 28 | A huge contribution to Britain 's export drive is about to be crated up and shipped to America . |
| 29 | At present , road blocks can only be set if the police have reasonable grounds for believing a serious offence is about to be committed , or if they are searching for someone who intends to commit an offence . |
| 30 | When a bureau is about to be sited , a great deal of consideration is given to the needs of the disabled , although statistics for the West Midlands showed that full access is still not always easy to achieve . |