Example sentences of "be [adv] to happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when we saw that we all started talking about what might be about to happen between these two . |
| 2 | Right , why do n't we erm give Derwent two free bookings , you know bookings that have already happened or are about to happen for free , |
| 3 | Patrick Chauvel and I could see things were about to happen in Panama , Noriega had declared war on America , but it was Xmas and only a few of us went there . |
| 4 | A lot of things are yet to happen from where we 've just left off the story . |
| 5 | If cumulative selection is really to happen in the world , some entities have got to arise whose properties constitute those basic ingredients . |
| 6 | Is there in Eastern Europe a hideous environmental prototype of what is about to happen in the developing world ? |
| 7 | Something like that is about to happen in Italy . |
| 8 | Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas . |
| 9 | Quite often , the dream was interpreted as an allegory for what was about to happen to the dreamer . |
| 10 | After all , there was no need for Doreen to learn of what was about to happen to the house . |
| 11 | When she had graduated from the School of Fashion she had sold her entire degree collection to Lady Jane , a small but exclusive West End boutique , who had greeted her designs with such enthusiasm that she had believed the world was her oyster and everything was about to happen for her . |