Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , he is expressing his own agreement or disagreement in attitude , and to agree or disagree in attitude is not to agree or disagree about an attitude . |
| 2 | ‘ He genuinely had no idea whatsoever as to who I was , and nor should he be expected to know or care about me . |
| 3 | In other cases there were no restrictions on numbers of temporary workers or the duration of their employment , merely a requirement to inform or consult about their use . |
| 4 | It is usual , for instance , in trust deeds used in the capital markets to provide that disputes about remuneration of the trustee are to be resolved by a merchant bank acting as an expert : see 5.5 . |
| 5 | Are you going to try and check about er whether you are |
| 6 | The wall stands outside the building of the United Nations — an organisation founded after the end of the last world war to try and bring about peace between all the different countries of the world . |
| 7 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 8 | Neil had told me to try and forget about the ‘ mystery ’ , and this proved surprisingly easy to do . |
| 9 | I would therefore urge people to try and talk about these kinds of things before the situation arises because this can avoid so much misery later on . |
| 10 | It is in this setting that I want to try and talk about Moral Re-Armament . |
| 11 | Creggan had learnt by now not to talk of his past , or to try and explain about the Zoo he had escaped from . |
| 12 | Whether he guessed what I was likely to say I do n't know , but he spoke with a sudden rush as if to prevent me from saying something that we would both have to accept and talk about . |
| 13 | A representative from the College of Arms had kindly agreed to come and talk about heraldry . |
| 14 | To come and talk about something she knew nothing about , all of her questions were exceptionally well thought through . |
| 15 | It provides a pleasant and relaxing place for businessmen to meet and talk about problems they might have and how they cope with them . ’ |
| 16 | We 've got two sessions planned erm and I would like to Rob that you and I ought to meet and talk about how we 're going to handle that session in some detail and the videos . |
| 17 | Walkers and cyclists can be attracted to long-distance tracks by the chance to discover and learn about the history of the local communities they pass through . |
| 18 | As we come to discover and worry about our own lack of autonomy , we discover in the past a similar lack of autonomy but , importantly in the Renaissance , a body of writing which never believed it possessed the power of independent expression in the first place . |
| 19 | This guide tells you what you need to know and do about : |
| 20 | But as well as all the companies — and there is a host of Cambex Corps and IPL Systems Incs just under the tall poppies of the IBM marketplace , there are thousands and thousands of individuals who must now feel devalued in a deeply demoralising way , people that have made it their life 's work to understand everything there is to know and understand about IBM and its mainframe products , who now find that all that hard-won knowledge is a rapidly wasting asset — not just industry commentators and pundits who will soon find that the market ca n't bear any more ‘ Into the Big Blue Yonder : the Decline and Fall of an American Icon ’ books , but an unsung army of data processing managers who now feel they are too old to start again and learn something new and fundamentally different virtually from scratch , and will instead sink back into the anonymity of early retirement . |
| 21 | Certain strange events have been taking place … culminating in the above address , and I was unable to write while wandering about Africa … . |
| 22 | Those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US transportation secretary , Federico Pena , laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 23 | But those objections have been overridden , not least because USAir has lost $1 billion in the past three years and urgently needs BA 's cash , although the US Transportation Secretary , Federico Pena , also laid down a warning marker on the type of negotiations to come when asked about British resistance to allowing US airlines to land at Heathrow Airport . |
| 24 | Could this be because medics themselves suffer so grievously from the complaint , that they do not wish to talk or write about it ? |
| 25 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 26 | However , physical restraint is not a solution to accident prevention and , indeed , excessive over protection will only deny a child the opportunity to explore and learn about the environment . |
| 27 | He said you 're making appointment still to go and talk about advertising . |
| 28 | You 'll have to go and see about it then . |
| 29 | to see and talk about it between the two of you and see how you got on with it . |
| 30 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |