Example sentences of "[noun sg] about to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord George Murray who had , as he had promised , skilfully directed the withdrawal , having got his cannon and ammunition safely over the River Lowther bridge into Penrith , found his rearguard about to be overwhelmed by Cumberland 's advance cavalry at Clifton , six miles [ 10 km ] to the south . |
| 2 | After nightmare on Kinnock Street David Wastell , Political Editor , finds Labour about to be trapped in the maze of a leadership battle compounded by a shrinking power base and the grip of union barons |
| 3 | It looks like a brand on a pig about to be priced . |
| 4 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 5 | He is writing a second book with his mind guru , Dr Robin Skynner , and is the subject of a major biography about to be published . |
| 6 | Blair is a famous actress about to be divorced from her second husband Morgan . |
| 7 | These problems also obviously apply to the attempt about to be made here . |
| 8 | With the electricity industry about to be privatized there should also be new competition in fuel supplies . |
| 9 | The LIFESPAN user name and password which have been allocated for the work about to be done must now be entered . |
| 10 | Now she looked almost like a child about to be scolded for some minor misdemeanour . |
| 11 | Kelly stood up , walked slowly towards Broom-Parker and knelt before his chair like a child about to be told a fireside story . |
| 12 | Northwest US logging fate about to be decided |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 15 | The Potsdam declaration by the allies — to which the Soviet Union was not a signatory — had warned Japan to accept unconditional surrender but without stating frankly enough how terrible was the new weapon about to be deployed against Japan . |
| 16 | Another possible fix is to use the /P switch which prompts you ( Y/N ) for each file about to be restored . |
| 17 | Stella was afraid Babs might tell Dotty that she did n't wear a slip and that Dotty would rush out and buy her one , just as she had bought her a brassière after catching her in the wardrobe with her arms above her head about to be fitted for her Ptolemy costume . |
| 18 | I feel the spell about to be broken . |
| 19 | Top G ♮ and G ♯ are also available by means of the pedal mechanism about to be explained . |
| 20 | In a biography about the former England captain about to be published , the rift which existed between the pair for the final 15 months of Lineker 's international career is at last revealed . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children , then herself . |
| 25 | Opening the meeting of the Economic Planning Council , the Chairman , Lord Hampshire , surprised members by announcing that the Prime Minister intended to sit in on the transport debate , which was the subject of a White Paper about to be discussed on the floor of the House . |
| 26 | Their subjects range from property and land ( in contrast to the country-wide bill about to be discussed in the Moscow Supreme Soviet , Estonia will explicitly recognise private ownership ) to migration and — most delicate of all — currency and finance . |
| 27 | Irrationally , as a man about to be beheaded notices every scratch and stain on the executioner 's block , Rincewind saw that they had overlarge tails that were bluish-white and , he realised , throbbing alarmingly . |
| 28 | regular meetings at specified frequency about to be organised |
| 29 | ON JUNE 1st Zeneca , the drugs firm about to be spun off from Britain 's ICI , will discover the result of its £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue . |
| 30 | You will , however , be doing them a service if you collect your specimens from a field about to be cut for hay , from a hedgerow bordering a field about to be sprayed or a site being cleared for building work . |