Example sentences of "[verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
| 2 | The young American girls who surprised cynical men-about-town in the Paris of Napoleon III by the freedom with which they were allowed by their parents to go about alone and in the company of young American men are as strong evidence about sexual morals as journalistic exposés of haunts of vice in mid-Victorian London : probably stronger . |
| 3 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 4 | Well I used to go about everyday . |
| 5 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 6 | This in effect led to a situation where the commercial energy input became about equal to the equivalent energy output of edible grains . |
| 7 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 8 | You have heard about complex variables , and I believe you have come across the Cauchy-Riemann relationships . |
| 9 | Those who had heard about major items of foreign news — such as the Amin coup in Uganda , the deaths of Nasser in Egypt and Nkrumah in Ghana , or the proposed resumption of British arms sales in South Africa — had for the most part received the news from the radio . |
| 10 | It turned out , however , that the police had heard about possible sexual abuse before the father appeared in court on the physical abuse charges . |
| 11 | Thinking of young lives , his mind jumped back to yesterday , when he had heard about young Harrington . |
| 12 | The jury heard about wealthy amusement arcade boss Vincent King 's past only after it had given its verdict . |
| 13 | Furthermore , even before Posidonius , the Druids may well have heard about Greek doctrines of immortality either from oral tradition in Massalia or by honest purchase of Greek books . |
| 14 | We 've heard about object-oriented technology for 20 years , but it 's only just now beginning to take hold . |
| 15 | The council had heard about impending publication late on Saturday night , too , he said , and had tried to stop it by taking out an interdict against the newspaper concerned . |
| 16 | Major 's reply suggested that , as an interested visitor from another solar system , he had heard about human personality but regretfully had no first-hand experience of this rare bird , though he was prepared to extend it every reasonable courtesy . |
| 17 | That 's when — you know , you 've heard about supply-side economics . |
| 18 | You have heard about electric charge , current , magnetic field , etc . |
| 19 | But instead of discussing such low-cost , appropriate approaches , the International Workshop on Earthen Buildings in Seismic Areas , sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and held in Albuquerque in May 1981 , heard about high technology solutions like ‘ prestressed adobe ’ and ‘ reinforced poured adobe ’ . |
| 20 | I 've read that our children will be taught about other faiths . |
| 21 | Men are n't taught about testicular cancer , yet it can affect any man between the ages of 15 and 45 . |
| 22 | How much did you get taught about German documents at Ashford ? — or Hereford ? ’ |
| 23 | Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda . |
| 24 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 25 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 26 | Again the question of just what is disorganized about disorganized capitalism surfaces for our consideration . |
| 27 | If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence , questions will inevitably arise about other situations . |
| 28 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
| 29 | An extremely bright young woman who cared about other people to the depths of her soul . |
| 30 | He cared about Christian unity , no one more . |