Example sentences of "[coord] be about [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 2 | We shall make the widening of the Community a priority , and shall advocate speedy admission for Austria , Sweden , Finland and Cyprus , whose membership applications have been or are about to be lodged . |
| 3 | While most supermarket chains in Europe have been ( or are about to be ) battered by recession , discounters like Germany 's Aldi and Denmark 's Netto are flourishing . |
| 4 | And all the corridors , stairways , and walls in other areas , have either been re-painted or are about to be . |
| 5 | The tenant should consider its deletion , particularly where the premises form part of a shopping centre and the other units have already been constructed or are about to be so . |
| 6 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 7 | The year is 1988 , and Wadsley Bridge buildings have received the attention of the local vandals and are about to be demolished . |
| 8 | The pristine Gondola has just emerged from the new paint-shop , opened in 1922 , and is about to be moved sideways on the traverser . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 11 | Iran was now in a poor state in the war , and was about to be wiped out as the Russian Army had been at Tannenberg in 1914 : a disaster that had led to the rise of the Bolsheviks . |
| 12 | Charlie had evidently been forgiven , and was about to be fed . |
| 13 | Perhaps Marek Nowak was a KGB agent and was about to be named by the defector . |