Example sentences of "and about to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the fuss is over the fourth charge — should Mosher have published an article in a Taiwan Sunday newspaper condemning Chinese birth-control methods and accompanied by photographs of women 7½ months pregnant and about to be given an abortion ? |
| 2 | And so the novel ends in total shock , much like occupied Europe in 1945 , with a sense of all civility and order disrupted and about to be restored , and not at all like the cosy world of Coral Island . |
| 3 | Er , I vividly remember my , my wedding day , and the bit I remember most is actually waiting to go into church with my father , and I remember being particularly moved at that time thinking that that was the end of one era and about to become part of another and I did n't feel that I was being owned somebody and about to be owned by anyone else in the slightest ! |
| 4 | ‘ An American voice , ’ he said in wonder , as if he were surprised to find that he was still alive and about to be rescued , after the previous night 's events . |
| 5 | At least once a gossip columnist had run a story about ‘ the lonely and about to be divorced MP for Roundhead East ’ in a column next to the story about Irene Pitt and her husband . |
| 6 | The early Machines , revived , rediscovered and about to be displayed by the book section of the Victoria and Albert Museum , are simple . |
| 7 | Sometimes the assumption is that information equates to ‘ filing ’ , and ‘ filing ’ is low skill , low priority and about to be replaced by technology . |
| 8 | Why do you want to have children in somewhere that is mad , evil and about to be destroyed ? |
| 9 | … and then there 's the county council-run fire brigade , much in the news and about to be brought into the 1990s . |