Example sentences of "was [adv prt] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scheme was now financially viable , and the last instalment of a private start-up loan of substantially less than £1m was about to be repaid . |
| 2 | ‘ I would hardly be joining a group if I felt it was about to be taken over . |
| 3 | In late June 1919 Eliot went to Garsington , but cut short his visit to stay with Peters who was about to be demobbed from the US Navy . |
| 4 | He looked as if he was about to be sick . |
| 5 | On the way , they stopped at a farmhouse that was about to be put up for sale . |
| 6 | Mr Lorenzo contends he fired in self-defence because he was about to be run down by the motorcycle , which was being chased by a police car . |
| 7 | Other developments included the Foreign Ministry calling for prompt talks with Moscow about the withdrawal of the 75,000 Red Army troops stationed in the country and signs that the diplomatic corps was about to be purged . |
| 8 | Aston Villa , with eight wins from their previous nine League matches , managed to nudge Liverpool 's writing arm in the first half every time a cogent word or telling flourish was about to be penned . |
| 9 | BAOR was about to be equipped with US Corporal and Honest John missiles with their nuclear warheads held by American custodial teams . |
| 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 | It was about to be discontinued by its Colorado makers until the war dramatically boosted demand . |
| 12 | In March 1962 the draft treaty was about to be signed by all six countries , when , at the last moment , de Gaulle changed the text . |
| 13 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 14 | The second one-day game in Guyana was played against a background of uncertainty over whether Robin Jackman was about to be asked to vacate the premises . |
| 15 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 16 | I had , in fact , noticed this and had reported it , asking that the board should be moved at once in case the impression was given that the house was about to be demolished . |
| 17 | On the one hand , trade unionists were increasingly confident that the period of post-war wage reductions was about to be halted , even if a battle remained to be fought . |
| 18 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Neighbours , the show she was about to be seen leaving on British TV screens , was voted top TV show and her co-star Jason Donovan carried off four awards too . |
| 21 | That something was about to be revealed that she did n't want to see . |
| 22 | ‘ They will be subsumed , ’ said one official sonorously , implying that Tory ideology , at least in Strasbourg , was about to be swallowed up by the centrist Christian Democrats . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's the real thing , not a bogus one , ’ explained the attorney general , who was about to be attorney general no longer . |
| 24 | She knew she was about to be hassled . |
| 25 | Killing was about to be these men 's business . |
| 26 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) also opposed the plan , extolling the ‘ quite extraordinary atmosphere of uninhabited remoteness ’ which was about to be disrupted . |
| 27 | A new king was about to be crowned in England , the previous one having decamped with an American divorcée . |
| 28 | One can of course see Colonel Airey 's point , although the fact remains that his Commando was unemployed at the time and Stirling was about to be required to undertake an important series of raids . |
| 29 | Ted looked as if he was about to be personally bombarded by a squadron of Messerschmitts . |
| 30 | The phone rang just as Gedge believed he was about to be belted and the situation was thus defused . |