Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major technical worry about the PWR design was what would happen if a leak should occur in the high-pressure water-cooling circuit which constantly withdraws heat from the reactor core . |
| 2 | The paper was seen as constituting ‘ guidance for local education authorities ’ and the ministers proposed to inform themselves in due course about the action taken by LEAs with regard to that guidance . |
| 3 | After a loud exclamation about the electricity being back on , I was informed electricity was not needed for the phones to work . |
| 4 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 5 | Once you have chosen a suitable frame and you know which pressed flowers are at your disposal , you must now make a definite decision about the exact colour scheme of your design by choosing the backing for the picture itself |
| 6 | The state of the organization was causing concern to the party managers , for it would deteriorate further unless some definite decision about the future were taken . |
| 7 | It was written and painted with outstanding expertise about the year 800 AD in a monastery scriptorium , but it is impossible to identify where this monastery was located . |
| 8 | Ronni was aware of that stiffness about him again , and suddenly she noticed too that , like herself , he had a slightly hollow look about the eyes . |
| 9 | There 's a definite look about the eyes , and the cheekbones , and the pitch of her voice , and … certain other things … ’ |
| 10 | It was funny in my day , when I first started there you used to get , mix up some size and er in a pot , in a proper pot and take it down into the mess room and put it on the stove , coal stove , heat it up and you let it boil over there was a terrific smell about the place you can imagine , the size but that 's what we used to do in those days . |
| 11 | Our own subjective judgement about the plausibility of a theory of the origin of life is likely to be wrong by a factor of a hundred million . |
| 12 | Where a marking procedure which is not specific to particular test items is employed , grading methods used are that : ( i ) Marks may be awarded by teachers exercising professional judgement about the quality of a piece of work based upon the experience of the teacher regarding the standard of work that has been achieved . |
| 13 | Since SSDs withdrew from sponsorship of private places — remember those days ? — no one has exercised any professional judgement about the need for residential care at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 14 | Lomas , for instance , finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war ; Sutton in continually starting a language which he 's physically incapable of learning ; I paint — shockingly . ’ |
| 15 | It is a real cri-de-coeur from a European intellectual about the incapacity of French society to honour , respect and defend the best of its traditions . |
| 16 | Okay total crap about the aggression of something , a book on aggression . |
| 17 | We we do have to try to answer this question of whether or not there should be specific guidance about the location . |
| 18 | Has my right hon. Friend seen the opinion poll in The Guardian this morning which shows very strong support for his stand on Europe , with the vast majority of people having confidence in the benefits for business purposes of a single market , but showing understandable scepticism about the implications of a single currency ? |
| 19 | To many pacifists , the conscientious objectors appeared to be substituting self-righteousness for any coherent thinking about the likely consequences of their actions . |
| 20 | " I guess you saw through the governor 's speech last night , Chuck , did you — all that hypocritical talk about the civilizing mission ? " |
| 21 | Just the usual talk about the weather and her occasional shopping trip to Fort William . |
| 22 | This had a bearing on the second feature of the report : its strong recommendation about the need for more advice and education in home-making and home-budgeting . |
| 23 | Other expressed scepticism about the usefulness of this procedure . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Murphy read us a terrific piece about the IRA hunger strikers , ’ said Surkov , gulping vodka . |
| 25 | However , towards the end of the sample year there was the ‘ M4 Rapist ’ , who received enormously detailed coverage about the way that he had trapped a woman driver on the motorway . |
| 26 | Sixty years on Sheriff 's honest and compassionate play about the last 48 hours of their lives is still compelling and gripping with a relevance for today 's audience . |
| 27 | My favourite story about the caddie who turned an Open in his player 's favour concerns the legendary Gene Sarazen and his bag-man Skip Daniels , who he always called Dan . |
| 28 | There is the further grave difficulty about the idea in hand , as a little reflection will show , that in the given sense no causal circumstance , as distinct from cc " use , has the given power . |
| 29 | in the crushed coral substrate , I found two pieces of rusted iron looking not unlike broken shell about the size of drawing pin heads . |
| 30 | In November Coun Thorne-Wallis , who represents Haughton West ward , telephoned British Rail about the missing fencing below Wylam Hill near Thompson Street East but so far no action has been taken . |