Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb base] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witnesses must be clear and open about their own position , but this does not necessarily imply that they will be effective in convincing and persuading others . |
| 2 | We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through |
| 3 | For example , both student teachers and student nurses are being expected to spend more time in the professional setting , and are being encouraged to appraise their own actions and to be explicit and articulate about what they are doing and why . |
| 4 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 5 | Once we appreciate that the cause is the complexity — and the unpredictability — of human beings , and the fact that humans are not as ‘ tidy ’ as elementary animals or simple mechanisms , then we should be grateful and go about our task with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 6 | When a beam of light strikes the atoms or molecules of the medium , the electrons are perturbed or displaced and oscillate about their equilibrium positions with the same frequency as the exciting beam . |
| 7 | Your only problem might be if you are very tall and worry about what other people think . |
| 8 | ‘ Your only problem might be if you are very tall and worry about what other people think . |
| 9 | There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all . |
| 10 | Read the facts about the subordinate and think about his work style . |
| 11 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 12 | To help get this message across the Come & See Programme is designed to allow us to be frank and open about what we do and to allow the public to hear the true story behind nuclear power . |
| 13 | Ron was a Yorkshireman , always with a streak of Close and Boycott about him , it seemed to me , positive and single-minded , I was a Devonian , inclined to be stubborn and cussed . |