Example sentences of "they be [adv prt] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prison governor tells them they are about to be shot and offers them the choice of dying like men or wearing blindfolds . |
| 2 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 3 | VILLAGERS in Peru are living in terror that they are about to be haunted by a vampire … from Blackburn . |
| 4 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I had to get one , ’ he explained , ‘ because they 're about to be made illegal . ’ |
| 6 | For decades his complete diaries have been hidden in K-G-B files in Moscow — now they 're about to be serialised in the Sunday Times . |
| 7 | If the crowd anticipate passé renditions of classic ME songs like ‘ I Melt With You ’ they were about to be disillusioned . |
| 8 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 9 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 10 | Detectives believe they were about to be shipped to the manufacturing base in a spare room of the house in Highgate . |
| 11 | It somehow seemed to be a cutting-off point , as if they were about to be flown away from any contact with civilisation . |
| 12 | They were about to be handed the photographic opportunity most tourists only dream of . |