Example sentences of "be [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand you can fail to take enough risk and thus delegate insufficiently ; on the other , there are dangers about going too far and jeopardizing important resources or results . |
| 2 | That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works . |
| 3 | The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments . |
| 4 | Among other things he gets off his chest are opinions about contemporaries : Bob Appleyard could be ‘ quite nasty and overbearing ’ , Ray Illingworth was ‘ selfish ’ but often helpful , John Edrich was ‘ a little stirrer off the field ’ , Geoff Arnold ‘ moaned incessantly ’ on tour , and Geoff Boycott was the ‘ most selfish , egotistical individual I have ever met ’ . |
| 5 | Do n't let anyone persuade you that there are rules about using video that you must n't break . |
| 6 | There are rules about these things . |
| 7 | There are rules about that . |
| 8 | Although nobody really argues about what needs to be achieved , there are disagreements about how the phasing out of mental handicap hospitals should proceed . |
| 9 | Once a child has been placed , workers will need to be guided by the new parents and the child about the how and the when of contact and , of course , once adoption or custodianship orders are made , social workers no longer have the right to give directions , although they may have an important role , when asked , in providing a conciliation service between custodians or adopters and natural parents , if there are disagreements about contact . |
| 10 | Although there are disagreements about where the boundary between the middle and working classes should be placed , it has often been the case that manual workers are regarded as being working class , and non-manual workers as middle class . |
| 11 | Lurking behind this are views about law and about the family . |
| 12 | Allied to this are views about the limited efficacy of law . |
| 13 | There have been doubts about the bank 's central aim of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in countries that for the past 40 years , or longer , have been dominated by communism . |
| 14 | While the PRE has halted Mozambique 's rapid economic decline since the early 1980s , there have been doubts about how appropriate its policies are for a country still at war . |
| 15 | There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits . |
| 16 | Many explanations are possible , but there may again have been doubts about the accuracy of the text , sufficient to halt work temporarily . |
| 17 | Right from the introduction of the smoking habit to Europe , there have been doubts about the effect on health ; only since the 1920s has evidence been gathered in any purposeful way . |
| 18 | In support of this they indicate that there have been worries about the ability of the Monopolies Commission to maintain consistency across its investigations . |
| 19 | I mean , what are books about ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
| 21 | There has also been talk about a return to England for Hughes ( pictured above ) , who left Manchester City to join Strasbourg a year ago . |
| 22 | There are songs about fleeting eye contacts , snatched and forever treasured , about drunken kisses and casual betrayals , about girls who walk home a different way each night to avoid the air-head wolf-whistles . |
| 23 | Michael Brunson tried a rude personal question , but by the time it had been translated into official interviewese — ‘ Would you accept that there are worries about your being in Downing Street ? ’ — it hardly sounded like a question , let alone a rude question . |
| 24 | Whether or not these countries have nuclear ambitions , there are worries about security on their soil . |
| 25 | However , there are worries about State control . |
| 26 | It 's a popular holiday destination , but there are worries about police corruption , especially over drugs . |
| 27 | These features are just as important to efficient performance as are data about plant functions but they can not be incorporated in a man-machine allocation process . |
| 28 | When there are disputes about expert determination , the courts apply the law of contract , and the law of contract is the most important area of law for this subject . |
| 29 | There had been gossip about Bates and Suzannah , who has also written in The Guardian and Chelsea match programmes . |
| 30 | However , there are doubts about how much of the Deloitte client list will be left intact once it has left the international organisation . |