Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of this , Palmer had in the back of his mind been thinking about muon catalysed fusion , and when the newly arrived Jones announced his talk , Palmer naturally took notice and went along to listen . |
| 2 | erm a great deal is talked about democracy in schools and you very often have all kinds of organisations allegedly which take democratic decisions . |
| 3 | ‘ However , they are also concerned that others do not suffer as their family has done with such an error being made about health care . |
| 4 | The boy is taught about family , clan and tribal lands , and their boundaries are carefully pointed out to him . |
| 5 | One aim of the exercise is to learn about business processes . |
| 6 | Your job is writing about crime . |
| 7 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman is bragging about unemployment in his constituency being 3.4 per cent. , but unemployment is between 9 and 11 per cent . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is talking about transaction costs . |
| 10 | However , more evidence is needed about soil conservation programmes themselves . |
| 11 | Incidentally a lot of nonsense is talked about tax rates under the Tories . |
| 12 | The Innocent is knowing about love , guilt , and ( yes ) innocence ; but its brief does not appear to extend much beyond that . |
| 13 | As well as gathering information about parental hopes and beliefs it 's important that detailed knowledge is gathered about home language , religion and culture so that sensitive and effective links can be established . |
| 14 | Urine and blood samples were taken , respiratory checks were made and each person was questioned about health problems in the days after the tanker grounding . |
| 15 | An enormous amount of rubbish is talked about type . |
| 16 | Of what use was reading about life ? |
| 17 | Ell was talking about life on Nicaea : the vidscreen soaps , her simple typing job and her small apartment . |
| 18 | Particular concern was expressed about animal welfare and the chance that " runaway " genes could cross into other animals and plants . |
| 19 | But most concern was expressed about nursing , which comprises 50 per cent of the total NHS workforce . |
| 20 | Endill was wandering about hunting for his friends when he heard Matron 's voice behind him . |
| 21 | Why can not the same thing be said about extension ? |
| 22 | Er I think in this context strength to strength is talking about market share , erm Frank er was saying how we 've made considerable gains in relation to the opposition and er such an extent that in fact er it had to join up with the er er er with the other financial newspaper , but Frank would you , would you like to add ? |
| 23 | The man on the box was shouting about death and re-birth , Heaven and Hell . |
| 24 | Scientists can not be observing and experimenting all the time , and when a scientist is thinking about communication he is no less subject to the superficial attractions of the ‘ transporting ideas ’ model than the rest of us . |
| 25 | In the meantime , the company is thinking about clustering AS/400s , perhaps via the new fibre adaptor , so that multiple machines can work co-operatively — although ‘ clustering ’ is probably not a term that IBM will use , says Haines wryly . |
| 26 | But the information the public is tossed about royalty are crumbs from the table . |
| 27 | During the baseline examinations only a subsample was asked about history of smoking . |
| 28 | But on Channel 21 ( of our 42 ! ) when a Baptist minister was asked about homosexuality he almost frothed at the mouth : ‘ … an abomination … |
| 29 | My job essentially was to introduce general management , and therefore I er , I was able to use many of the skills which I had acquired in I B M , but of course , I was also part of the Griffiths debate , here I 'm talking about Griffiths Two , not Griffiths One , I was implementing Griffiths One , which was general management , Griffiths Two was a community , the community debate , so I saw something , which I 'm certainly not allowed to quote , of the great debates that went on over the period of eighteen months before the eventual decision was made about community care . |
| 30 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |