Example sentences of "[verb] about [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next to me , Richard Attenborough looks about as emotional as Anthony Blunt . |
| 2 | He looks about as friendly as an anaconda with belly-ache from too much goat-swallowing . |
| 3 | This is becoming about as routine as Cal Peete leading driving accuracy , which he did again this year , hitting 753 out of 900 . |
| 4 | It 's no business of mine to worry about how sick you are . ’ |
| 5 | Thirteen years of Tory misrule have left the Right 's matrimonial affairs looking about as secure as a drunk on a unicycle . |
| 6 | This will bring about both inner and social conflicts . |
| 7 | To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting ; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation . |
| 8 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 9 | The idea of a weekly stint as well as a monthly one for Options , a daily one home in Muswell Hill and a nightly one up the West End seemed about as feasible as Lech Walesa assuming the management of Stringfellows . |
| 10 | As the venue for the fifth international conference of the European Greens , the Cité , with its predications on a science-led industrialized society , seemed about as sympathetic a choice as the Chicago stockyards for a vegetarian convention . |
| 11 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that mild , self managed episodes may occur about twice weekly ; severe episodes without unconsciousness but requiring help from another person twice yearly ; and episodes of unconsciousness three times in 40 years . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that she sings about uniquely female experience , she denies having feminist leanings . |
| 14 | The Minister will remember that in Committee , he regularly boasted about how powerful a piece of legislation the Bill was — saying that it was the most far-reaching legislation in Europe , and so on . |
| 15 | What such critics for their part fail to realize is just how difficult scientific research actually is , how complex the testing of any even seemingly trivial hypothesis or hunch may be , and how many paradoxes and seeming mysteries we confront every day in our research which to us are at least as challenging as , but theoretically more relevant than , fretting about probably untestable phenomena like ESP . |
| 16 | Rises of 1p a pint seem about as likely as getting a full pint from a hand-pulled dispenser . |
| 17 | ‘ You seem about as forthcoming as she was , Mr Barnett . |
| 18 | At first sight , to write a book about democracy in the context of the contemporary West may look about as useful as writing a book about proper drainage , or a pure water supply . |
| 19 | But in front of its biggest audience — the match is a 7,100 sell-out — it will look about as inviting as the Addams Family to Ardiles . |
| 20 | Hunters often complain about how difficult it is to get a dead mountain goat down from a mountain — it simply will not slide easily across snow . |
| 21 | And if , one day , the pick-up does catch on over here with the vigour of Ray-Ban shades , Zippo lighters and Levi jeans , it will make the last great fashion car , the Golf GTi , look about as silly as velvet loon pants . |
| 22 | Although the interference pattern C and the single hump patterns of B look about as dissimilar from each other as one could imagine , there is in fact a hidden mathematical connection between them . |
| 23 | She then proceeds to whinge about how confusing it is that the Odeon Mezzanine , the Odeon Leicester Square and the Odeon West End are all situated within yards of each other . |
| 24 | The bag should be emptied before it gets about half full and this is achieved by turning the bag anti-clockwise so that the spout can be pulled out of the dust port . |
| 25 | These two teams had a remarkable Tournament , cool under pressure and eventually breaking about even right for the winners . |
| 26 | ‘ We achieved about as satisfactory a report as we could have hoped for and that has helped us enormously in developing the future of the organisation . |
| 27 | In fact , the idea would command about as big a majority as the one in 1990 that favoured membership of the ERM . |
| 28 | He seems about as straight-forward a citizen as ever foreclosed on a widow and fifteen orphans not a hint of creepy-crawliness no European connections , not even any gaps . ’ |
| 29 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 30 | Given that neither The Blue Aeroplanes nor Levitation have exactly torched the charts with tunes of fire , the chances of a group formed by ex-pats from both of said bands formulating an instant pop nirvana appears about as likely as Spurs winning the Premier League . |