Example sentences of "[verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 2 | This is the main highway from Istanbul , which lies about 100 miles to the east , to the Greek border , some 100 miles to the west , and although in most parts it has a good tarmac surface it is in the main single carriageway . |
| 3 | They did visit Cawdor Castle , which lies about six miles south-south-west of Nairn , reached by the B9090 and linking with the B9191 to the village of Cawdor . |
| 4 | On most sails this imaginary point lies about 18 to 22 inches ( 46–56cm ) from the front of the boom and can be found by standing the rig on the beach in a steady wind . |
| 5 | However , before that , in two days ’ time , on the Feast of St Leo the Great , you will meet Irvine , My Lord Cardinal 's spy , at Coldstream Priory which lies about thirty miles from here . |
| 6 | The small village of Kexby lies about five miles due east of York . |
| 7 | The Scottish army marched to relieve Berwick and encountered the English forces drawn up on Halidon Hill , which lies about two miles north-west of the town and commands all approaches to it from the north . |
| 8 | Puerto de la Luz y Las Palmas , to give it its correct name , lies about two miles due south and is protected by a massive breakwater . |
| 9 | The village of Sancton lies about eight miles west of Beverley on the Market Weighton to Brough road . |
| 10 | But the busiest GA airfield in this area lies about fifteen flying minutes north of the city , at Paraparaumu aerodrome on the Kapiti coast . |
| 11 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Seoul said the 12 Chinese arrived on Tuesday on Cheju Island , which lies about 60 miles off Korea 's south-west coast . |
| 12 | Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen . |
| 13 | One rather unusual feature is the Whin Common , which lies about half a mile to the north of the village . |
| 14 | When discovered , the wreck was thought to be another English naval ship , the Dartmouth , most of which lies about half a mile away . |
| 15 | The ancient village of Sutton in Holderness lies about three miles from the city of Kingston upon Hull . |
| 16 | I want about three or four inches off the bottom |
| 17 | Control of the councils remained unchanged , with the ruling PNP gaining about 60 per cent of the total vote and winning 12 councils ; the opposition JLP retained control of St Thomas . |
| 18 | Fertiliser is used either in a slow release form , or is added about six weeks after the clover is established , continuing until the nutrient cycle is secure . |
| 19 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 20 | The Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association , representing about 131,000 teachers , estimates that about 7,500 teachers are not being paid incentive allowances worth £858 a year , while a further 900 are missing out on additional annual payments of £2,568 . |
| 21 | They are important in the forest , especially in light gaps , representing about 230 kg of food per ha in the forest for such animals . |
| 22 | The legislation covered property illegally seized after Feb. 25 , 1948 , representing about 10 per cent of property in Czechoslovakia and worth an estimated total of 300,000 million koruna , of which about kcs60,000 million would be paid out as cash or bonds and the remainder as real estate ( US$1.00=kcs26.4234 as at Feb. 18 , 1991 ) . |
| 23 | Expenditure on the health service is a significant item within the national budget , representing about 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( Table 7.1 ) . |
| 24 | 151 countries out of 168 submitted reports to WHO , representing about 5200 million people . |
| 25 | There was also a large collection of some 3000 pottery sherds , representing about 350 different vessels , which was studied in detail by John Gillam ( 1950 Report pp. 24 — 40 ) and remains one of the most important late groups ever published in Britain . |
| 26 | During the summer of 1987 , Coleman helped identify 25 Lebanese laboratories with a combined annual output of six or seven metric tons of refined heroin , representing about half the country 's gross national product . |
| 27 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 28 | In making public the findings so far of the Mission on Detainees in Angola and Zambia , Mr Ahtisaari said that the group would keep trying to find about 250 people reported to have been detained or missing . |
| 29 | Now I am trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 30 | I am now trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |