Example sentences of "be [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not sure , ’ Nicholas said , ‘ what you are sorry about . ’ |
| 2 | The Government have been woolly about the exact meaning of their proposals . |
| 3 | First , they can always return to the solicitor to seek more details of the basis of charging ; many bills are uninformative about this . |
| 4 | ( Actually , the Brits are right about the European space effort , but that is not the point . ) |
| 5 | ‘ I do hope the NRA are right about the Wivenhoe barrier , but I am still concerned . ’ |
| 6 | If you are right about procedure you might gain one or two more marks . |
| 7 | But you are right about the image . |
| 8 | You are right about our initiatives Rees , Prior , King , Brook , they have all come to naught . |
| 9 | I have been depressed about life in the Eighties , the way the economy has gone in the last twelve years . |
| 10 | Nowadays I am obsessional about checking the gadget , particularly as I use it infrequently . |
| 11 | Yeah , he 's really upset , I feel sorry for him , cos he 's been upset about it , but |
| 12 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 13 | 1989 : As CD outsells vinyl for the first time , rumours are rife about the impending arrival of a blank , recordable CD . |
| 14 | If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing , it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies , in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies . |
| 15 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 16 | But whether or not I am right about a Niemecz on paper 60 rpm for the machine 's flywheels , the tempo relationships of the pieces on all three machines ' barrels are a constant and it is interesting to see that the tempo range for pieces either minuet-like in character or specifically called minuets ( in available manuscripts or because of the music 's original sources ) roughly corresponds to the ranges of minuet tempos metronomized by Hummel and Czerny for Mozart and by Czerny for Haydn . |
| 17 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 18 | This should annoy players who are obsessive about mapping details . |
| 19 | Worldwide recession is obviously to blame for poorer attendance , as is unwillingness on the part of dealers to exhibit major pieces when clients are hesitant about buying . |
| 20 | If you are hesitant about pruning flowered wood hard , some of the more vigorous varieties will reflect your hesitancy by sending out new growth from half way along old stems . |
| 21 | They are hesitant about calling their sense of vocation as being in any way visionary . |
| 22 | The teacher had been specific about dress : ‘ Do n't wear your best clothes , girls , there 'll be lots of running around and some floor-games ! ’ |
| 23 | If pilots are apprehensive about cable breaks it probably means that they are uncertain about what they should do in all situations , and whether they can manage . |
| 24 | In addition , analysts — like many others — are apprehensive about the prospect of VAT being imposed on books ; Pentos itself believes VAT of 5% on books is likely . |
| 25 | Ealhfrith may also have been apprehensive about his father 's plans for his younger half-brother , Ecgfrith , who appears to have married Aethelthryth , widowed daughter of Anna , king of the eastern Angles , c . |
| 26 | This Is for those people who think they are n't properly dressed unless they 've got the right badge on — and are guilty about their middle class backgrounds and so dress to look poor . |
| 27 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 28 | So , having consistently been right about why and how the Tories would win , I was wrong when it came to the point . |
| 29 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 30 | She may well have been right about this . |