Example sentences of "[verb] be talked about [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We also desperately need to install a safe and economical heating system — this has been talked about for too many years . |
| 2 | If the single European market can be established and made to work as that common market that has been talked about for the past 30 years , it will be a considerable achievement , but it will not be easy . |
| 3 | The new TV channel that has been talked about for a while will be named ‘ The Manchester United channel ’ and will outbid the BBC for the right to be channel no.1 and will have a completely unbiased opinion of football ( just like the BBC ) |
| 4 | The idea of bringing the elderly , disabled and mentally ill out of institutions to live independently in the community has been talked about for almost forty years . |
| 5 | We 're talking about this partly because of the document passed in the ministry in which , everybody has avidly read and erm has been talked about after the seventeenth er , in York in July . |
| 6 | A link with the literary house Meulenhoff Nederland is one of the possibilities that has been talked about in the Dutch trade . |
| 7 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 8 | Surprise , the raid had been talked about in Waco for days . |
| 9 | Digital networks , in the form of ISDN ( integrated services digital network ) have been talked about for many years , and in mainly technical terms . |
| 10 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 11 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |