Example sentences of "[coord] soon to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or soon to be . |
| 2 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 3 | Ben Turner , of the General Union of Textile Workers and soon to be President of the TUC , wrote in 1925 : |
| 4 | On the other side of the Strada Stirbei Voda in the west of central Bucharest which has been converted from a charming street into a new boulevard , almost opposite the old and soon to be redundant opera-house , lies the huge shell of the new National Museum of Romanian History . |
| 5 | Scores of students I spoke with at that time suffered hurt pride that socialist China , supposedly superior to capitalist states , could be defeated by its small neighbour ( and soon to be returned ) Hong Kong . |
| 6 | Crops appeared where they had not grown before : rubber was carried from Brazil to become the staple of the Malayan economy , and soon to be very important in Indonesia and Ceylon . |
| 7 | Dr Carl Chinn , Birmingham graduate , former bookie and soon to be Community Historian in Birmingham Studies at the University , speaks out in defence of his home city , which in 1989 voted him ‘ Brummie of the Year ’ . |
| 8 | In 1979 , Roy Jenkins , ex-Labour minister , President of the European Commission , and soon to be a born-again British politician , was invited by the BBC to give the Richard Dimbleby lecture . |
| 9 | Among those present was Master John Prophet , dean of Hereford , who among his pluralities numbered also the deanery of St Chad 's at Shrewsbury , the king 's privy clerk , and soon to be his secretary . |
| 10 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 11 | That is , they did until the watershed of the 1790s when , inspired by events in France and soon to be given a " red book " in Tom Paine 's Rights of Man , the first popular movement for radical reform appeared . |
| 12 | The corporation ( currently state-owned but soon to be privatised ) already has considerable experience with optical-fibre technology , and argues that it should be allowed to play a large role in cabling Britain . |
| 13 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 14 | They slipped through the restaurant , shrouded now in darkness , and picked their way through new tables and chairs , empty but soon to be packed with people . |