Example sentences of "[adj] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now the French government had become quite brazen about the whole affair and the new French prime minister , Jacques Chirac , publicly stated that France had good reason to be proud of what Mafart and Prieur had achieved , a view that was evidently shared by most people in France . |
| 2 | In any case there is something absurd about the notion that language or words can be attacked independently of their users . |
| 3 | THERE is still something slightly absurd about the notion that 4,812,000 people cast their votes for Mr Dan Duffy . |
| 4 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 5 | As a letter to me at Merstham dated I May 1939 indicated , Eliot was polite about the article in question : |
| 6 | I am being polite about the way in which the Government have behaved when I say that they have dealt with our recommendations in a cavalier fashion . |
| 7 | ‘ Excuse me , please , ’ she said politely , but there was nothing polite about the angry , scornful glitter in her grey eyes . |
| 8 | Rune 's tone was casual , but there was nothing lazy about the way he leaned across the table towards her . |
| 9 | It emerged yesterday that , from the moment Ferranti acquired International Signal and Control two years ago , executives were put on alert about the suspect contracts because , unusually , they involved the granting of credit on open account to sub-contractors and intermediaries . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont seemed half-hearted about the measures which he introduced . |
| 11 | He ca n't do very much short-term about the federal deficit , although he 's sharp enough to see that borrowing short-term cuts interest costs . |
| 12 | Such is the loving care which has gone into past history , it seems a pity that the authors are so hesitant about the future . |
| 13 | Tories who feel rebellious about the railways , may not have to push their protest to the point of voting against the government . |
| 14 | Budapest also remain apprehensive about the nature of Romania 's future political parties , and particularly those of the National Christian Peasant Party , which was recently formed with the help of Mrs Doina Cornea , one of Romania 's leading former dissidents . |
| 15 | Although he had passed Responsions and had few debts at Oxford except for books , his father was already apprehensive about the cost of an Oxford education , with Ernest in his final year of training to be an art-teacher and Reggie with a consuming passion for Shakespeare and the stage , and no other interest . |
| 16 | Helen cheerfully returned home , but apprehensive about the effect of this ‘ ghastly suspicion ’ on her hysterical mother . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , Ken was apprehensive about the position I might inherit when I touched down . |
| 18 | But with the business community apprehensive about the election outcome and worried at the prospect of a Labour government there is no comparable improvement in business confidence . |
| 19 | I was quite apprehensive about the whole NCT ‘ scene ’ . |
| 20 | For this reason I was apprehensive about the approach to The Grey Corries , a fine ridge-walk to the south of Spean Bridge . |
| 21 | ‘ At first , we were apprehensive about the process of signing , then it was the same about deals in Europe and now I think Brian will be helpful when we sort out the American side . |
| 22 | Danzigers had good reason to be apprehensive about the Versailles Treaty arrangements , and they were not alone . |
| 23 | Like Charles himself , the government had seriously over-estimated the likely degree of Jacobite sympathy he would encounter and they were particularly apprehensive about the security of Chester , which barred the way into North Wales . |
| 24 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 25 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 26 | Some sections of the press were apprehensive about the ‘ un-Englishness ’ of an armed police , but within a year 821 police constables had received instruction in the use of firearms — although some of their senior officers believed that their men were ‘ nervous and excitable ’ , ‘ men of excitable temperament ’ who were ‘ not to be trusted to use revolvers with discretion ’ . |
| 27 | Maryon felt quite apprehensive about the experiment and wondered what it would be like to live with Alan during the diet . |
| 28 | In addition , analysts — like many others — are apprehensive about the prospect of VAT being imposed on books ; Pentos itself believes VAT of 5% on books is likely . |
| 29 | As Peter Ackroyd has pointed out in his biography , Eliot was apprehensive about the approach of war : which was not the same as being faint-hearted . |
| 30 | Israel accepted the concept of a limited regional conference ( a " ceremonial " opening session followed by direct " twin-track " negotiations between Israel and the Arab states on the one hand , and Israelis and Palestinians on the other ) , but was deeply apprehensive about the authority of the conference to impose a solution and about Palestinian representation and European , Soviet and UN participation . |