Example sentences of "the [noun sg] about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | These problems also obviously apply to the attempt about to be made here . |
| 2 | The LIFESPAN user name and password which have been allocated for the work about to be done must now be entered . |
| 3 | While the exercise about to be described was a theoretical model , not an empirical test , its results indicate that positive NPV opportunities probably do exist in some ‘ cash cows ’ and that an integration of DCF and portfolio-grid analyses may lead to a more careful and sophisticated use of portfolio grids . |
| 4 | I feel the spell about to be broken . |
| 5 | Soon PostScript ( and one of its rivals , called TrueType , which is the brain-child of Apple and Microsoft , two suppliers to the personal-computer market ) will be added to the nuts and bolts of computers so that their screens accurately display the page about to be printed . |
| 6 | The game about to be got under way here , it 's the second time of course that we 've had the taste of European football in just er inside a few weeks here at Lane , a very poor night for weather , you who 've not ventured out well , I think we understand that er because er as we say , it 's not a night when you would turn the dog out . |
| 7 | There they gathered , the employee who lacks employment , the faithless priest , the investor about to hang himself in the expectation of plenty , the physician who will not be able to heal herself , the director who lacks all direction , the historian who denies the existence of history , the Jewish scholar of early Renaissance Christian iconography , the deaf man who hears voices , the woman about to be taken in adultery . |
| 8 | Most applications for injunctions are based on a complaint that the information about to be revealed has been obtained in breach of confidence . |
| 9 | The record only reached number twenty-five but the audience about to be touched was obviously going to be huge . |
| 10 | It is very important to realise exactly what was intended in the analysis about to be described . |
| 11 | Indeed , we fully recognize that the model about to be discussed is only suggestive of one avenue of development and is not conclusive . |
| 12 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
| 13 | As it was , the first few minutes of the talk was written by Intel 's legal department cautioning that patent applications covered the material about to be discussed . |
| 14 | She had resold after there was no longer any requirement to repay discount and immediately before moving into the house about to be bought from the district council . |