Example sentences of "[adv] about [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one read the linguistic signs as pointing to something vaguely beyond the poem , to ‘ Something evermore about to be ’ ( Prelude 1805 , vi , 542 ) , then the poetry could be used to support innumerable creeds . |
| 2 | Rennie House ground floor post room , loading bay and print room are all about to be re-planned including a new corridor that by-passes the loading bay . |
| 3 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 4 | He was just about to be attacked by a horde of anxious faces when he felt himself being gently shaken . |
| 5 | Jilinski , however , seemed oblivious to Samsonov 's ever more perilous situation , and as late as 26 August — when the hapless Samsonov was just about to be engulfed from all sides — he commanded Rennenkampf to employ two corps for the investment of Königsberg and with the rest of his army to press on to the Vistula . |
| 6 | When complete , there will be 37 three- , four- and five-bedroom detached houses , and the second phase of 10 properties is just about to be released . |
| 7 | Mam was just about to be rehoused by the council , and did n't fancy being so far out of town . |
| 8 | The agreement is just about to be reached . |
| 9 | I went to the doctor at seventeen , just about to be married and he put me on Librium to calm me down . |
| 10 | Robert Hardy , the actor , plays William alderman er and it 's the tour is just about to be re-cut er so that Judi Dench can be introduced into it as Lady . |
| 11 | The Springbok stand-off is not about to be signed up in south Wales . |
| 12 | Many clubs employed ‘ cravat-looseners ’ whose sole job was to make sure that those who had slid beneath the table through no fault of their own , were not about to be choked by their clothing . |
| 13 | THE Mirror is not about to be sold , the man who effectively controls the Mirror Group said yesterday . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary was not about to be seen as going soft on the petty criminal . |
| 15 | He was not about to be railroaded by some impatient young woman . |
| 16 | She was not about to be drawn into any argument with the count and she was shakily aware that any of her usual remarks would bring swift retaliation , probably spectacular aerobatics that would have her screaming and confessing madly to the sin of femininity . |
| 17 | But the town 's shaken spirit is not about to be broken . |
| 18 | She 's made it clear that she is not about to be scared off by terrorist threats . ’ |
| 19 | If it was a business trip in fact , she was not about to be mistaken for the personal assistant/mistress . |
| 20 | Dexy 's songs were a series of manifestos and clarion calls for a new , pure music , always about to be born . |
| 21 | It was always hard to get going , for if I did n't carry my own sins , and hence guilt , then my dad 's sins were always about to be draped around my neck like a dead albatross . |
| 22 | John Major 's part in the controversy is also about to be revealed . |
| 23 | They are also about to be upstaged by their own big intro . |
| 24 | The mystery kept secret from all eternity is now about to be made clear . |
| 25 | Now we come to resolution one , which is the Annual Report , the Accounts , and the Auditors , and although Geoffrey is not here , er , we 've done a video of him , which is now about to be shown , who will introduce er this , and I just like to say , that this has been sponsor the cost of it has been sponsored by the Shell International Petroleum Company , to whom we are very grateful if my head pops up and obscures some of the shout down , will you |
| 26 | The sharks are learning fast that Kylie is n't about to be eaten for supper . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the over-riding impression is that The Wishplants are n't about to be manipulated . |
| 28 | Even the Virtual Processor translator is retrieved only when needed , and it is Hinsley 's boast that no piece of code is ever loaded onto the processor that is n't about to be run . |
| 29 | Even the Virtual Processor translator is retrieved only when needed , and it is Hinsley 's boast that no piece of code is ever loaded onto the processor that is n't about to be run . |
| 30 | He knew how things worked , but was n't about to be deceived again . |