Example sentences of "[prep] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so write it as about here write it as three times seventeen , minus two . |
| 2 | Erm swimming is recommended as about the most all round exercise because it certainly does your heart and lungs , it does all the muscles of the body , it , according to what you do in the water of course , I mean if you just go and stand there it does nothing |
| 3 | For most purposes , a phrase such as about 30 suffices . |
| 4 | I know this I just know about about a sort of friend of ours is making money meanwhile in Germany . |
| 5 | Erm a , th th the situ , you know the situation abo , about about charity , charity we 've we 've seen it all before and it has n't helped the starving millions in Africa , it 's beginning to start all over again . |
| 6 | Er there 's one that talks about about age inherited benefits . |
| 7 | years ago about about successes and failures and problems and |
| 8 | It 's similar to a call we had erm a couple of weeks ago Nelly , about about er , people being pestered with er with with children like this . |
| 9 | Having having talked about about your schooling to er |
| 10 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 11 | Did you ever get any feeling of sort of distaste from anybody about about y your mother leaving home ? |
| 12 | I think what what what never ceases to amaze me about about people in the flats on benefit , is is how many of them do manage , how many of them never owe a penny . |
| 13 | What did you think about about the the Parliamentary Labour Party at the time ? |
| 14 | About about one twenty . |
| 15 | Well I was just actually gon na ask you about about what you did afore it . |
| 16 | We had so many conversations about about economy and all this er ca n't really remember . |
| 17 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
| 18 | Just one final point if I may about er er about about migration . |
| 19 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 20 | Er John Grantham , C P R E , erm just coming back to the to the general questions you you asked earlier about about erm consistency with guidance and and P P G three in particular , erm in in the written evidence we we 've addressed that , and I do n't wish to go over that ground short of saying that that I feel the contribution from er Mr Jewitt , which was Hambledon 's particularly helpful in that regard in in I think explaining erm how government guidance is different now to when to how it was er at the earlier deliberations of the Greater York authorities , and I feel that that 's very important consideration erm , I 'd I 'd like to restrict my my comments just to two points , and they they both really refer to things that were introduced by the representative from from Barton Willmore . |
| 21 | This this is going ahead and we had discussions with the staff side about about that issue . |
| 22 | But , anybody want to ask any questions , or raise any points about about it . |
| 23 | What has changed though is the refurbishment programme and I 'm not quite sure what Mr was on about about er er the refurbishment programme . |
| 24 | I 'm not really supposed to say anything about about my Grecian two thousand |
| 25 | Assertiveness always seems to be one of these subjects that really , I do n't why but it seems to get to get people talking about about being aggressive about dismissive about lots of different things and I think assertion perhaps is one thing that we need we need to clarify |
| 26 | I know it 's about about that much is n't it . |
| 27 | or sorry it sends a signal to the adrenal glands which sit on the top of the kidneys yeah , and pumps adrenalin into the blood which again is something that makes you ready and that 's what all these things about about a dry throat a wonky voice a shaking limbs is all about a very primitive instinct of fight or flight . |
| 28 | But it 's it 's about about doing that and about being able to practice and use these skills and techniques so that we can improve performance . |
| 29 | That was the purpose of talking about about the brain and the two the two aspects of it . |
| 30 | So y w feel free now to ask questions I mean , you must have something that worries you about about this partic I can only really talk about the exam . |