Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [be] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a note of caution should perhaps be added about the conventional wisdom that falling membership automatically leads to a decrease in trade union influence . |
| 2 | When one is asking questions , however , one must never forget that the answers come from the respondents , so one must always be thinking about those respondents . |
| 3 | Teenagers ( and children ) should always be told about future events involving them moving house , or father going into hospital for an operation so that they have time to adjust to the idea . |
| 4 | But uncomfortable questions must also be raised about the less traditional and disciplinarian approaches to education , to family , and to other social institutions which Left and liberal opinion have championed . |
| 5 | Questions must also be asked about why the sprinter has only now , after five months of considerable time and expense from lawyers , advisers and athletics officials , revealed information that even Morphitis did not know about . |
| 6 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |
| 7 | Pilots should also be briefed about the dangers of raising the undercarriage , closing the canopy window or fiddling with anything in the cockpit in case they are momentarily distracted or jerk the stick unintentionally during the initial climb out . |
| 8 | All teachers should also be briefed about LMS and its possible implications for them and their work . |
| 9 | You should clearly be thinking about weaknesses in control : wastage , perhaps , or even pilferage . |
| 10 | If , say , measles had shown such an increase , we should now be talking about a major epidemic . |
| 11 | White people who live in an area like Neasden , Dalston , wherever , should really be talking about how much Black culture influences them , instead of it being always us who have to talk about the influences of white culture on us . |
| 12 | Just as they are taught other subjects , they should increasingly be taught about such topics as mental handicap so that they do not grow up with the prejudices that their parents may possess . |
| 13 | God , I do n't know if I should even be talking about it . ’ |
| 14 | The question that must ultimately be asked about Israel 's God is : ‘ Is there a God besides Me ? ’ |
| 15 | Then further , into the little purses that must never be talked about , that they were n't supposed to know they had . |
| 16 | Must never be talked about . |
| 17 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 18 | Kitty had that facility for slipping the knife in , even when on the surface she might only be talking about the weather . |
| 19 | I could go on , but that 's enough , or I 'll soon be babbling about lime trees and pétanque and eating bread dipped in rough red wine — what they call la soupe à perroquet , parrot soup . |
| 20 | It is hard to see what kind of claims might reasonably be made about linguistic variation expressed as average scores of groups such as these ( an additional difficulty being the abstract and contentious nature of social class labels ) . |
| 21 | However , much demolition is done on a piece work or per day basis , and you might simply be talking about the loss of a day 's work or a day or two 's profit . |
| 22 | We 'd just be talking about maths and that 's it . |
| 23 | She was uncertain whether , at work , she should be denying the rumour that she was engaged to the head of the Massingham empire , but thought that if Naylor had any strong views on the subject she 'd soon be hearing about them anyway . |
| 24 | Other than their mutual interest in Harry , she wondered what on earth he and Miss Maynard could possibly be talking about . |
| 25 | Even if my aunt had been mentally lost to Uncle Félix years ago , as the mater said , he 'd hardly be thinking about marriage to another woman at such a time . |
| 26 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 27 | That was an ill-advised planning decision by the city council , and questions could well be asked about the considerable waste of public money involved in building the new houses in Goodwood road . |
| 28 | He knew he was very much in the reckoning to skip a Northern Ireland rink in next year 's Commonwealth Games in Canada and yesterday 's double defeat could well be talked about when the Irish selectors sit down in the not too distant future to pick their side . |
| 29 | A similar story of the colonization of the commodity by culture could surely be told about pop videos ( Frith and Horne 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , having surveyed the yeomanry at length , Smith too reached the point beyond which he possessed little specific knowledge of the people under discussion , unless he felt that there was little that could usefully be said about those who had ‘ neither voice nor authority in the commonwealth , and no account is made of them but onelie to be ruled , not to rule others ’ . |