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be + about + toviseur -> Base Verbale

 

A man is about to jump

from that burning building!

 

 

A man is about to jump from that burning building!

 

Popeye        Hi Eisman        17 September 2004

http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/popeye/about.htm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cette structure permet de mettre en scène

un événement présenté comme imminent,

même si cet événement peut ne pas se produire

dans l'instant (effet d'annonce -> 1).

 

Traductions :

être sur le point de / aller bientôt, maintenant, à présent.

 

Ellipse possible de be + about (1).

 

 

 

1 -    Biologists to explore 'lost world'

of the Arctic ocean

 

Biologists are about to enter a lost world deep

in the greatest tract of unexplored territory on the planet.

They plan to probe under the Arctic ice into the Canada basin,

a steep-sided submarine hole the size of Alaska

thought to have been isolated from the surrounding ocean

for millions of years.

The study, announced last night,

is part of one of biology's great adventures:

a $1bn (£548m), 10-year census of marine life

supported by 300 researchers from 53 countries.

Headline and sub, G, 25.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/25/science.research 

 

 

 

 

 

The Syria Babble We Don’t Need

 

September 7, 2013

The New York Times

By FRANK BRUNI

 

OUR country is about to make the most excruciating

kind of decision, the most dire: whether to commence

a military campaign whose real costs and ultimate

consequences are unknowable.

The Syria Babble We Don’t Need,
NYT, 7.9.2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/
opinion/sunday/bruni-the-syria-babble-we-dont-need.html

 

 

 

 

 

A £2bn, seven-year mission is about to come to a climax

as a spacecraft the size of a small bus sails through

the rings of Saturn to begin a four-year study

of one of the solar system's most mysterious planets.

Probe takes the Saturn ring road, §1,
G, 4.6.2004,
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/jun/04/
spaceexploration.starsgalaxiesandplanets 

 

 

 

 

 

US troops were about to throw a hand grenade

down the hole

'I am Saddam Hussein the president of Iraq
and I am willing to negotiate'
,
subhead, G, 16.12.2003,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/16/iraq.rorymccarthy

 

 

 

 

 

It's rare to get slapped in the cinema.

But more than 15 years ago,

it happened to me.

Or at least to my friend sitting in the next seat.

Aware that the movie

we were about to see was a long one,

he had stocked up on a mega-bag of popcorn.

Ten minutes into the film, he was munching away,

when a woman from the row behind reached down

and gave his leg a firm smack.

"Have you no respect?"

Visions of hell, GE2/Review, p. II, 10.1.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you mind?

We're about to have a funeral.

 

Jeff Koterba

Comment cartoon

Cagle

13.10.2004

http://cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/koterba.asp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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