Example sentences of "about [noun] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 2 | ‘ The great thing about Robbo is that he brings that bit extra out of people , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
| 4 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
| 5 | The whole point about chaos is that it roars down on you when you least expect it , like a motorcycle messenger . |
| 6 | The important thing about notes is that you understand them . |
| 7 | Remember that the point about self-access is that the learners make their own choices about how they will use the resources at their disposal . |
| 8 | The remarkable thing about teacher-in-role is that it allows the teacher to change into a different gear , as it were , as subtly or as crudely as the occasion seems to require . |
| 9 | The good thing about cruises is that you always have the ship 's staff to help you if you have a problem and there are always guided tours laid on at every port of call . |
| 10 | The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is . |
| 11 | A point to note about technique is that when you actually go round the mark in strong winds the daggerboard should be retracted first then the mast track moved back in preparation for the reach . |
| 12 | The whole point about aerobics is that your exercise is done with plenty of ? |
| 13 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 14 | One of the basic factors we have to bear in mind about fungi is that , unlike insects , which make their attack at certain predictable times depending on their life cycles , fungal attack in one form or another is about and ready to take advantage of any weakness for much longer periods — in fact , at almost any time of the year . |
| 15 | Of course , being in the same profession may increase a sense of rivalry between you — but what 's good about friendship is that we can take a little of this . |
| 16 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most prevalent belief about crime is that it will ‘ explode ’ if penalties are relaxed , and can be contained only if they are stiffened . |
| 18 | As Ogden Nash put it , ‘ Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody 's reach/And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech … ’ |
| 19 | But the feeling about Faldo is that if he is at the top of his game , he should win it . |
| 20 | The other unfortunate thing about lifts is that they are always breaking down , and if you are in your seventies , prone to arthritis and live on the seventeenth floor , it means that you are frequently housebound . |
| 21 | ‘ The worst thing about cocaine is that once it has exhausted all the dopamine from the brain , then what 's left is a black hole of depression so big and so awful that not all the misery in the world can fill it . |
| 22 | The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness . |
| 23 | The problem facing writers like Schon who attempt to theorize about practice is that if they fail , practice remains particularistic or intuitive , and if they succeed , they simply generate more theory . |
| 24 | One of the most wonderful things about religion is that it 's always there waiting for us . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important thing to remember about exercise is that it must be enjoyable . |
| 26 | I sha n't force you to but erm it 's an important document and the biggest problem about wills is that when anybody gets to look at it you 're not around to say what you meant . |
| 27 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 28 | At the same time we should also recall that , as Levinas puts it ‘ the best thing about philosophy is that it fails ’ . |
| 29 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 30 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |