be about to in English

verb

intend to, mean to, prepare to, be on the point of

Use "be about to" in a sentence

1. They might even be about to commit suicide!

2. Meanwhile Mr Bageya may be about to face his nemesis.

3. But the global Internet may be about to change all that.

4. Surely they must be about to close the bomb shop down.

5. If full page is punch - drunk, be about to be sent afresh.

6. It seems Mr Zaitsev may be about to lose his monopoly on fame.

7. Is which hospital antenatal examination to produce to be about to which hospital be?

8. The statement excited new speculation that a senior minister may be about to resign.

9. Reports suggest the North Korea may be about to test-fire a long-range missile .

10. He saluted briefly and opened the door, afraid that she might be about to cry.

11. That is, unless you happened to be about to meet them across a conference table.

12. In another situation a person may be about to light a burner in a gas oven.

13. The Italian press has speculated for months that Clooney might be about to propose marriage to her.

14. Now the Republican senator may be about to carve the biggest notch of all into his belt.

15. Thus the endless cycle of reform, repression and violent response may be about to enter a new phase.

16. See only among them a piece, a Cang Ying towers aloft on abrupt rock, volant be about to fly.

17. All we needed was a red flag to warn the locals that we might be about to frighten the horses.

18. 3 See only among them a piece, a Cang Ying towers aloft on abrupt rock, volant be about to fly.

19. The Marine Commandos looked exhausted, some of them appeared to be about to drop off to sleep on their feet.

20. This suits particularly ' Neozoic employee ' , basically be now often say ' 80 hind ' , be about to enter a society ' 90 hind ' demand.

21. If I do not have a requirement inside 3 days allegation, averment or hold hearing of witnesses, be about to accept punishment.

22. 3 If I do not have a requirement inside 3 days allegation, averment or hold hearing of witnesses, be about to accept punishment.

23. If either of the current debt negotiations fails, we could be about to replay 19 the global banking collapse that made the Great Depression great.

24. But for the thousands of small English language schools, unable to compete with the new breed of slicker professionals, times may be about to get significantly tougher.

25. The protection that enters a life period be about to end, nicotian enterprise should quicken the pace that informatization builds, meet a challenge with brand-new appearance.

26. Be about to communicate complete spirit the target that should become a gender, target itself can make a person abstracted, importune spirit desire syncretic , achieve not easily instead.

27. While not as much work has been done on marijuana and Alzheimer’s, these initial studies suggest a similar pattern may be about to emerge regarding marijuana neo-prohibitionists’ and re-Criminalizers’ brain damage claims

28. N Aposiopesis In rhetoric, sudden reticence; the suppression by a speaker or writer of something which he seemed to be about to say; the sudden termination of a discourse before it is really finished

29. Britannia recap – series one, episode four Is Kerra about to lose her head or is an ascension on the cards? Elsewhere, the druids could be about to lose their power and Aulus is dishing out the

30. Now the GF7 , along with other flying cars such the Terrafugia Transistion, the Aeromobile, the PAL-V gyroplane three-wheeler, and the flying box-truck AT Transformer, may be about to deliver on the fantasies of 60s scriptwriters!