Example sentences of "[conj] about [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the latest ‘ S ’ series , and other new models either recently introduced or about to be , Mercedes aims to head off the challenge posed by a stream of new models from an arch-rival that has stuck to its last , BMW , and the looming threat posed by a fleet of new Japanese luxury models . |
| 2 | There is no parallel here with punishment for attempts and other inchoate offences , because there is no proof that the defendant was aiming to do something harmful : the harmfulness of the action is supposedly constituted by the indecent motive , not by anything actually done , or about to be done , to the victim . |
| 3 | Although the standards will not come into force until next year , most Japanese banks are either in breach of the Bank for International Settlements ' capital-adequecy ratios , or about to be . |
| 4 | Clearly the range of the Act is very limited , applying only to lucid adult patients connected or about to be connected to a ventilator who are suffering from a terminal condition ( as defined ) and who execute the appropriate directive.33 A first step , however , has been taken in clarifying the law . |
| 5 | But it is difficult to see how we can have sensitivity to plants and rivers , trees and ecosystems if we have no sensitivity to the caged animal , or the animal undergoing product-testing or about to be slaughtered . |
| 6 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 7 | They have developed a revolutionary new radar system , the Type 966 , which is fitted , or about to be fitted , to Invincible-class aircraft-carriers , the Type 42 Sheffield-class destroyers and the new Type 23 Norfolk-class frigates . |
| 8 | They were all in a state of becoming engaged or about to be married ; nearly all virginal , but on the verge of something else . |
| 9 | This showed that we have now implemented the majority of the recommendations while the remainder are either well in hand or about to be tackled . |
| 10 | Erm now could you help me on some of the the terminology used because I gather that six of the packages have been or about to be erm priced on the basis of a ascertained costs erm I I just wondered if if that was a sort of euphemism for for a cost plus . |
| 11 | The Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra is the place to be this weekend — or any time this month — if you 're in love , happily married or about to be so . |
| 12 | A motorist entering Scotland via the A74(M) could , for instance , be advised if the A9 was closed or about to be closed because of snow , or if the Forth Road Bridge was affected by high winds . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The early Machines , revived , rediscovered and about to be displayed by the book section of the Victoria and Albert Museum , are simple . |
| 19 | Sometimes the assumption is that information equates to ‘ filing ’ , and ‘ filing ’ is low skill , low priority and about to be replaced by technology . |
| 20 | Why do you want to have children in somewhere that is mad , evil and about to be destroyed ? |
| 21 | … and then there 's the county council-run fire brigade , much in the news and about to be brought into the 1990s . |