Example sentences of "soon [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photographs of Birmingham 's famous ( or infamous depending on your viewpoint ) market place and landmark , soon to be lost , as the Trust who owns the site plans to redevelop . |
| 2 | Though soon to be exposed to Nazi atrocities as returning soldiers and the world 's press became free to speak , he enjoyed the feeling of being on the winning side , of seeing his country 's troops and their allies making strong progress across Europe . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | New products are , however , in the offing as Zoladex for prostate cancer and the intravenous anaesthetic Diprivan are soon to be launched in the key US market . |
| 5 | Taking over as skipper from the Army 's Lt Col Frank Esson is the yacht 's navigator , the Navy 's Lt Commander , soon to be Commander , Colin Watkins , and the crew is being increased in size from 15 to 16 . |
| 6 | The plan is that a new company , soon to be renamed LWT ( Holdings ) , will buy in all of LWT 's shares , paying one new preferred share plus a package worth 130p made up of a special dividend of 60p , an associated tax credit of 20p and either loan notes or cash worth 50p . |
| 7 | The really important event , however , was J T ‘ Pussy ’ Richardson 's two goals in South Bank 's 3-0 defeat of Auckland Town — soon to be Bishop Auckland — in the inaugural Northern League fixture . |
| 8 | This huge decline was soon to be reversed in NEP , for by 1926 the figure was 259.9 million . |
| 9 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 10 | By 1908 , when he saw that his stipulation was ruled out by the failure of British immigrants and the Liberal acceleration of colonial self-government — soon to be followed by South African union — he unhesitatingly drew the correct conclusion : |
| 11 | That was as much as he felt he could cope with for a while , but he was soon to be ‘ prevailed upon by government ’ to become chairman of British Steel in double harness with the Tate $ Lyle job . |
| 12 | There was no need for anyone to feel sorry for her , Dorothy Fanshawe , of Astbury Mews , Upper Grosvenor Street , W.I. She was a merry widow now , rich in her own right , soon to be well again , the mother of a good-looking talented only daughter . |
| 13 | And 40 years ago that is just what Peter Conder , soon to be assisted by his wife , Pat , set out to do . |
| 14 | And 40 years ago that is just what Peter Conder , soon to be assisted by his wife , Pat , set out to do . |
| 15 | Governments are expected to meet again here on January 18 to review the past six months , and many , particularly the US , are expected to argue that it is far too soon to be sending Vietnamese back against their will . |
| 16 | There was a small disturbance early yesterday , it emerges , at the famous entrance which is soon to be closed by Mrs Thatcher 's ornamental security gates . |
| 17 | Soon to be cheaper by the dozen , if the service 's ‘ famous whisper section ’ was correct on December 31st , are such stocks as Federal Express , PepsiCo , Coca-Cola and McDonnell Douglas . |
| 18 | It is now sent by facsimile , every Thursday , to each of our four ( soon to be five ) printing sites in three continents and distributed from there . |
| 19 | The racial mixture was soon to be sharpened , as the mid-century railway boom got under way , by new waves of immigrants from Ireland , the Forest of Dean , Herefordshire , and Somerset , but already the social , political , and religious pattern of the new South Wales and the eastern valleys of Monmouthshire had been firmly set for another century . |
| 20 | Despite its eulogistic tone Oldershaw 's memory seems more credible than E. C. Bentley 's half-humorous , half-invented sketch of Thomas aged sixteen during his first half-year at St. Paul 's : ‘ It was Walker [ Frederick Walker , the High Master ] too , who had made this possible by clearing the ‘ History Eighth ’ , the first recruits to which included my friend Oldershaw and myself , soon to be joined by an exceptionally reserved and quiet boy who usually had in his pocket a rat or so , and a few snakes , which he would shut in his desk with books , and occasionally peep at stealthily — Edward Thomas the poet . ’ |
| 21 | The less apparent development of character and literary ambition seems adequately chronicled in numerous surviving letters to Helen Noble and to Harry Hooton , soon to be the husband of Janet Aldis . |
| 22 | Then the pantry — the old still-room — and up into the yard , with its pigsties , stables , cart sheds , barn , bakehouse , and wash-house , soon to be bulldozed … |
| 23 | Ben Turner , of the General Union of Textile Workers and soon to be President of the TUC , wrote in 1925 : |
| 24 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 25 | They went through the house like so many screaming wheelbarrows , soon to be silenced by men with sharp knives and rubber aprons and boots that did not slip on the bloodied floor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was soon to be taken prisoner in battle against the Persians . |
| 28 | By itself , the ‘ diversion memorandum ’ — soon to be ‘ Exhibit 1 ’ in the congressional inquiries — dictated the shape of the subsequent investigation . |
| 29 | I threaded my way between the various broken churches , towers and columns to the entrance-exhibition where posters announced that fibreglass imitations of the stone carvings were soon to be set up outside . |
| 30 | Soon to be all change on this route : the French company , SNAT , pulls out towards the end of April . |