Example sentences of "a [noun] soon to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The history of education is littered with discarded phrases , phrases which were once fashionable and seemed to encapsulate the spirit of a Utopia soon to be born . |
| 2 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 3 | As we describe in a paper soon to be published by the Brookings Institution in Washington , DC , they should be required to make non-interest-bearing deposits with their central bank . |
| 4 | The man on the video took a rather different view , describing Honda 's decision to join the flow of Japanese car makers into Britain as an opportunity to conquer a Europe soon to be ‘ unchained and unfettered by regulations ’ . |
| 5 | He painted with the meticulous craft of the Elizabethan limner in a style derived from the elaborate concoctions of mannerist court portraiture ; a style soon to be swept away by the tide of the baroque brought to England from Flanders by Rubens and Sir Anthony Van Dyck [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | This canon marks the first and crucial step to the creation of ‘ patriarchates ’ , a dignity soon to be shared by Constantinople ( founded 330 ) and Jerusalem , giving the Greek East four patriarchates to the West 's one . |
| 7 | This statement comes ahead of a report soon to be issued , covering the Community 's financial relations with 26 countries , pursuant to the Second Banking Directive . |
| 8 | But the world was moving on , and national agendas were changing both in the United States and in Britain , a fact soon to be underlined by a British prime minister who was to make a conscious effort to grade Western Europe above the United States in Britain 's list of national priorities . |