Example sentences of "were [adj] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris you were right about Casualty last night it was a repeat , she says to me I 've seen it before , I says no you have n't |
| 2 | OK , so I admit you were right about Lori , but it was rather cruel . ’ |
| 3 | You were right about Bodin Mark . |
| 4 | Fagg and company were upset about Blenkinsop going , but since they trusted him utterly they left it to him to choose someone just like himself . |
| 5 | Some women in the study were obsessional about cleanliness and tidiness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Erm , that may or may not have been deliberate , but it 's very important , particularly within a group , erm of people in negotiation , who were clear about roles , and when I was out on the road , I used to occasionally take the out , and I 'd go and see my broker and erm , I 'd say , oh we love to do fish and chip shops , we love insuring fish and chip shops . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you were wrong about Simon loving you , so I 'm wrong about the reason for his accident , ’ he said , becoming grave . |
| 9 | Men were wrong about Prince Richard ; women loved him not for his strength , but for his weakness , which was well hidden . |
| 10 | Many politicians and journalists were ignorant about problems in the teaching of grammar and about the status of Standard English , and simply desired to reinstate the disciplines of study typical of schoolrooms in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Their occupants , who had seen the pyramids of the Old Kingdom looted and defiled , were paranoid about tomb robbers and took elaborate precautions against them . |
| 12 | If you wanted to be an instructor and you were serious about gliding , you could probably achieve it in a couple of years . |
| 13 | They were vague about dates of departure , and only shrugged and said bad bokra , a phrase which literally means " the day after tomorrow " but is generally understood to imply something rather more indefinite . |
| 14 | ‘ We took the view in the press that hotel and leisure property prices were too high and therefore were cautious about investment . ’ |
| 15 | In a study of 6000 children aged 10–12 , ‘ children who approved of cigarette advertising were twice as likely to become smokers as children who disapproved ’ with the smoking behaviour of those who were ambivalent about advertising falling between that of the two groups … |
| 16 | Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital . |
| 17 | They were stupid about boyfriends , but … |
| 18 | The history of this is that for many years M O D were unhappy about expansion of the , of the port er , for commercial use and the reason they were unhappy of course was that erm commercial use was competition that they felt would be likely to drive up wages . |
| 19 | The political parties were unhappy about May as the local council elections were due on 18th May . |
| 20 | It concluded that while actual deterioration remained unproven ( medical witnesses in particular were sceptical about deterioration ) , working-class health and nutrition left much to be desired . |
| 21 | Both men were sceptical about ghosts and the supernatural and their jaunt in suitably foggy conditions was aimed at returning to their friends who believed the stories and good-humouredly disprove them . |
| 22 | ‘ We were sceptical about packets , though , and did n't think all the powder would dissolve , but it seems to be fine . ’ |
| 23 | There is ample evidence that in the Victorian and Edwardian ages working-class women were knowledgeable about techniques by which they could control family size . |
| 24 | But Coun Thorne-Wallis said residents were concerned about parking near homes in Warkworth Way , and there was no need for another takeaway as there was a Chinese fast-food restaurant 100 yards down the road . |
| 25 | He said they were concerned about discrimination , particularly in work and education . |
| 26 | While lords were concerned about returns from their estates , their normal practice was to exploit traditional resources rather than to seek more profitable areas for investment , even at a time when population decline made it hard for them to find tenants and had reduced rent levels and the income from them . |
| 27 | The north-east seamen were concerned about pay also . |
| 28 | At Edingley when they discussed this they were concerned about buses going down Station Lane . |
| 29 | The proposals were opposed by the non-WEU countries ( in particular neutral Ireland ) and by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands which were concerned about Europe 's relations with the United States . |
| 30 | This may have been the time when Nero and his advisers were concerned about Britain . |