Example sentences of "is [adv prt] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the blindingly obvious fad is that no one is around to be disturbed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Five years after they split , they are more influential than ever and their back catalogue is about to be reissued . |
| 4 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 5 | This goal is about to be reached when it is discovered that a great deal more investment is required . |
| 6 | The hon. Member for Exeter may say that an agreement is about to be reached , but agreement has been reached this week . |
| 7 | Under this scheme , which is about to be announced to member governments , initial assessment of a wide range of goods would be undertaken by the country of manufacture . |
| 8 | I feel that a flaw in Heavenly Father 's plan is about to be rectified by immutable powers . |
| 9 | ‘ For example , last year we checked the collection of European gold coins and a check on Scottish silver at Queen Street is about to be undertaken . |
| 10 | As soon as the villain is about to be unveiled what does she do , she throws the sand in the face of her pursuers . |
| 11 | A monument is about to be unveiled on Malta , GC . |
| 12 | So what of Michael Fallon , anxiously defending a narrow Tory majority in Darlington where the football team has sacked the manager and is about to be relegated . |
| 13 | ‘ Critics have found me narrow , implies that his reputation is already controversial , a truth of which he was justly proud , and it is a provocation aptly calculated to make one read on ; and to claim that the only way to escape misrepresentation is to say nothing implies that something momentous is about to be said , that it is his habit and custom to do so , and that he is widely hated because he does . |
| 14 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Instead , conjunction signals the way the writer wants the reader to relate what is about to be said to what has been said before . |
| 16 | It has new modules for Sceptre and Senator ; it is collaborating with another unnamed software house on a broking evaluation product , which is about to be tested . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Devon are recording the 5,000-year history of a valley which is about to be flooded to form one of Britain 's largest reservoirs . |
| 19 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 20 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 21 | Recent claims by Sharelink , which is about to be floated , to be the biggest private client stockbroker make him smile wryly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That say-so is about to be withdrawn . |
| 24 | Yarns will also be stored there , allowing more production space for the ‘ Templetwist ’ range of carpet that is about to be manufactured by Lyles . |
| 25 | It would obviously be daft to organise in an area which is about to be kicked out of the state . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But if you 've persevered with certain plans or associations and kept your cool under pressure , your patience is about to be rewarded . |
| 28 | The car that Rover killed off eleven years ago is about to be relaunched . |
| 29 | But I am plagued by the thought that we have arrived at a moment in history when this is about to be swept away . |
| 30 | A second one , the Greeks hope , is about to be built on European money . |