Example sentences of "about [pos pn] [adj] [noun] and [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the time their relationship was friendly and relaxed : in the daytime they went about their separate business and at night they came back to eat and sleep . |
| 2 | To Agassiz , who became the most eminent anti Darwinian in the USA , these indicated that they were separate creations : animal populations had been created in about their present numbers and in their present locations . |
| 3 | By allowing the SiO4 units to rotate freely about their common oxygens and by making the bond-angle of the ‘ bridging oxygen ’ flexible , these chemists could conceive of a continuously connected random network that left the local order intact , but which destroyed the overall crystalline topology . |
| 4 | They also sang about their own lives and in their own accents so it became really unique . |
| 5 | On the other hand we should ask ourselves what the mainline churches can learn from pentecostals and charismatics about their own communication and about new possibilities of passing on faith . |
| 6 | She seemed much more cheerful and was full of chatter about her new friends and about the wonderful workers at the Blind Club , where she was learning to write using a metal board with black elastic stretched across it for lines . |
| 7 | Learn about its famous students and of their astonishing discoveries . |
| 8 | It was this constant strain of pessimism , both about his own writing and about the civilization of which he was a part , that Wyndham Lewis tried to evoke in a portrait of Eliot which he was painting in the spring of 1949 " The body slightly tilted , " he explained , " … in resigned anticipation of the worst . |
| 9 | This little nugget of a book ( but all Boulestin books are nuggets ) contains some of Boulestin 's best writing about his own province and about the food of obscure country inns of a type now all but vanished . |
| 10 | We are excited about our new discoveries and about the opportunity to give our shareholders a significant return on their investments — and we want to convey our sense of excitement to our shareholders . |
| 11 | Well what you 've got to do now is think about your own house and in the same way you 've just thought about it and say what is there about my house that would attract somebody to try and break into it . |