Example sentences of "[noun] about [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact possible to take different views about what genuinely constitutes full motion and we address this more fully in section 3.20 below , when we discuss compact disc interactive ( CD-I ) technology . |
| 2 | We say more about the resolutions in the explanatory notes but if you have any queries about them please telephone our Shareholder Enquiry Office where the staff will be able to help you . |
| 3 | What had brought this change about she hardly knew , but whatever the cause she did not regret the consequence . |
| 4 | There is without a shadow of doubt some very nasty gossip about me now sludging its filthy way through the intestines of the society I know and have come to despise . |
| 5 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 6 | watch this till about I normally watch this till about two . |
| 7 | The most important expectations surrounding social roles are not just statements about what actually happens — about what a person will do , out of habit and so on — but are norms outlining things which a person occupying his or her status is obliged to do . |
| 8 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you 've proved your point about me not knowing enough to be a manager . |
| 10 | But MI5 deliberately ignored them as and when it suited because it believed no prime minister or Home Secretary would interfere nor would any member of the service break ranks and tell the truth about what really went on inside MI5 . |
| 11 | People make use of such knowledge about what typically happens in order to ‘ read between the lines ’ . |
| 12 | Evidence about who actually acts as an unpaid carer has to be pieced together from various statistical sources , but the best informed estimates seem to be that very few people are cared for by non-relatives , and that women provide about 75 to 85 per cent of relative care . |
| 13 | However , it is this concern that has led students of social policy to give increasing attention in recent years to the activities of that group of public servants who may be called ‘ street-level bureaucrats ’ , to ask questions about what actually happens in the exchanges between these people and the public . |
| 14 | This raises interesting questions about what actually does happen to such relationships when the third party is no longer there , that is , when the marriage is broken through death or divorce . |
| 15 | criticism about them not turning up and this sort of thing . |
| 16 | Disclosing things about yourself often encourages other people to open up too . |
| 17 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 18 | is quantitatively too great , measurably too great , for us to admit it to our theories about what actually happens . |
| 19 | The news about him only arrived just as I was leaving . |
| 20 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 21 | The people of Midlothian are sick of the Liberal Democrats , because an argument is going on at present in Midlothian about who most wants to back the consortium and whether it is the Scottish National party or the Liberal Democrats . |
| 22 | ‘ He was always the one cast member who always stood up for me if there were any bleating from Equity members about them not getting their money from repeats , compilations and so on . ’ |
| 23 | Even if you just use them as memory joggers , they could prove invaluable if there is ever a quarrel about who actually said what and when . |
| 24 | Irrelevant psychological information about yourself only confuses the issue . ' |
| 25 | and I do n't think they , they will pass on information about somebody actually refusing to take a job |
| 26 | She asked him whether he would see the film and ‘ issue a statement about it both to encourage anxious parents and to ensure that the Church was seen to be caring about the matter ’ . |
| 27 | Your friend talks a lot about them now do n't you ? |
| 28 | A progress background can teach you a lot about what really happens if you 're aiming to be an account executive . |
| 29 | This is the tone about which least needs to be said , and which is usually regarded as more or less ‘ neutral ’ . |
| 30 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |