Example sentences of "he be [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both members of the London Anti-Slavery committee and some of the Liverpool abolitionists who encountered him were doubtful about Clarkson 's attitudes and methods in gathering information from participants in the African slave trade . |
| 2 | Yet this does not stop him being blunt about Rhoda the Rhino — otherwise known as Margaret Thatcher |
| 3 | Despite all the evidence against her , despite her own words , her betraying silences , had he been wrong about Isabel from the start ? |
| 4 | What could he be worrying about ? |
| 5 | He is bullish about ATV 's future . |
| 6 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 7 | If he is vague about the meaning of Christ 's death and resurrection , he can not hope to introduce others to Jesus as their Saviour . |
| 8 | He is vague about the precise reason , suggesting merely ‘ He through occasion called was away ’ ( V , XII , 27 ) but he links the recall with how Envy ( a feminine personae ) spreads malicious rumours about Artegall because of his victories in Ireland which were against her desire . |
| 9 | But most of all he is anxious about the children of friends and comrades . |
| 10 | Although he is cautious about predicting how rapidly or how strongly profits will grow in 1993 , he believes the UK business has made a good start to the year , with revenues from both consulting and recruitment ahead of budget . |
| 11 | He is cautious about all the hype that has surrounded Alpha from the time of announcement and warns that too much is being promised by a chip that was designed in the first instance to provide a Unix migration path for VAX users . |
| 12 | Gordon Grant , for example , suggests that CMHTs play a crucial role in assisting the development of voluntary sector services , although he is cautious about the ability of teams to unlock " an unlimited capacity for care amongst voluntary groups or family carers The developmental function here clearly picks up on the prominence given to the involvement of voluntary groups and parents in the service planning process in Wales , where Grant and his colleagues are monitoring aspects of the All-Wales Strategy . |
| 13 | He conveys vividly the absurdity of a situation , but he is incurious about the underlying processes which shape it . |
| 14 | He is worrying about Isabella . |
| 15 | But this is , I believe , slightly misleading , for although he is right about the mixture of often contradictory emotions , it is wrong to give the impression that the weeping is of the same order of emotional experience related to the child being a patient in actuality . |
| 16 | He is right about the success of the anti-inflationary policy . |
| 17 | He is right about that . |
| 18 | He is right about that as well . |
| 19 | If Norman Lamont keeps the job of Chancellor ( and he might do so only because of the shortlist of alternative candidates is embarrassingly short ) he may decide to delay the next cut in interest rates for long enough to convince the markets that he is serious about wanting to move sterling into narrow bands in the European exchange rate mechanism at its middle rate of Dm2.95 . |
| 20 | ‘ I have asked Warren to lodge £50,000 , non-returnable , with the British Boxing Board of Control by close of business next Tuesday if he is serious about promoting the fight . |
| 21 | We have a lot of fun and a lot of laughs and I know he is serious about me . |
| 22 | He is calm about the fact that Ecstasy is easy to fake : ‘ Although some people are selling bleach pills it can burn a hole in your stomach . |
| 23 | He is cagey about what his services cost , saying that fees vary with the size of the job . |
| 24 | He is cagey about his plans post-Maastricht — whenever that may be . |
| 25 | He is sceptical about the plethora of management books that deaf in ‘ grand abstractions ’ . |
| 26 | Each person chooses what he is sceptical about and what he believes without scepticism . |
| 27 | He is sceptical about the moral value of teaching the classics or serious contemporary fiction and poetry : ‘ Indeed , it is immodest to propose that by making people read these things we are improving them , ethically or civically . |
| 28 | Although he is realistic about the need for focused research in specific areas , he is also keen to avoid fragmentation . |
| 29 | Though his input has been enormous , he is modest about the extent to which it has brought him fame . |
| 30 | He is clear about our management of our own economy in the future in the way in which he sets it out . |