Example sentences of "be about [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ We 're about to pick up a very valuable thing . |
| 2 | So the cost of Prestel is going to be a local phone call plus an access fee , for the time you 're connected , and any extra charges you notch up by looking at paid-for pages ( the price per page is always in the top right-hand corner and you 're warned if you 're about to run up a charge ) . |
| 3 | I am about to set up a mixed fish/invertebrate tank , and I would be very grateful if you could tell me more about Kalkwasser , which fishkeepers in the USA are using to dose their marine systems . |
| 4 | I am about to set up a 6′ × 2′ × 2′ tank with an Amiracle SL 250 Pro Plus filter . |
| 5 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 6 | And they are , they are very popular vehicles in Sri Lanka , and somebody 's about to set up a factory there to make the bulk of the parts |
| 7 | AN APPLE for the teacher is about to take on a new meaning in California . |
| 8 | Thus a false belief that a man is about to set off a bomb might well be reprehensible in a soldier , who therefore shoots him , when the soldier could and should have known that the man was not about to do any such thing . |
| 9 | Believing that a man is about to set off a bomb wo n't make our soldier do anything , unless he also wants something : in this case , to prevent an explosion . |
| 10 | She was about to take on a job whose previous holder had just been fired specifically to make room for her . |
| 11 | This can be seen as an example when the Whigs compromised one party principle in pursuit of another ( the Whig hostility to the Tory peace proposals are discussed below ) ; moreover , the Junto were worried that the ministry was about to bring in a far tougher Occasional Conformity Bill to appease its High Church supporters in the Commons , and therefore thought it better to let a less stern one pass , especially if other political advantages could be reaped thereby . |