Example sentences of "[noun pl] are about [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may have to tell guests in advance , ‘ We 're cutting the cake and having the speeches in the dining room at half past , ’ then send the chief bridesmaid into the gardens if it is a fine day , and the other bridesmaids around the house , to inform stragglers that the speeches are about to be made . |
| 2 | I look forward to hearing his contribution and finding out whether he can guarantee to employees whose companies are about to be privatised that their future pension rights will be as secure as they are under TOPS . |
| 3 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 4 | Now his running ambitions are about to be realised as Graham explains : ‘ It is every runner 's ambition to run in the London Marathon and just before Christmas I found out I would realise that ambition in April 1993 . |
| 5 | The cattle are about to be sold , but they wo n't move any further than the farmers ' field . |
| 6 | The report lists 28 items of legislation to achieve the reductions , some of which have already been passed , while others are about to be passed or are under discussion . |
| 7 | Her findings are about to be published by Oxford University Press in a book called The Adapted Mind . |
| 8 | Road pricing is now firmly established in Singapore and the windscreen stickers are about to be superseded by electronics . |
| 9 | PLANS to reduce chronic delays in paying compensation for criminal injuries are about to be announced by the Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , after criticism that some victims are having to wait more than two years for an award . |
| 10 | Alternatively , the presence of platelet activating factor reflects not only inflammatory cell infiltration , but may also represents a stage of inflammatory amplification in which inflammatory cells are about to be recruited . |