Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glumness apart , he nonetheless would like to be thought of as a comic writer and indeed , though its themes are class , race and sex , what most impresses about The Buddha of Suburbia is that it is full of humour . |
| 2 | Although fourteen answers to the fragmentation question concern housework , the housewife rarely thinks about the work she is actually doing . |
| 3 | The Western world annually produces about one billion tonnes of industrial waste . |
| 4 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 5 | Everything that he greatly cares about demands order , proportion , measure and control In poetry he considers decorum the grand masterpiece . |
| 6 | We 've got a reported-stolen list a mile long , but the media only cares about the sexy stuff . |
| 7 | For the vast majority of these people , unemployment is a direct consequence of a government who only cares about those who have , and could not care less about those who have not . |
| 8 | Confidence is hard to measure , so worries about it are easy to dismiss — but when it goes you can generally tell by counting the dole queues . |
| 9 | Alright well , generally then I think from hearing what you 're saying , erm , some good points , some perhaps things that you 'd do differently next time , and then what it obviously says about you is that , you 're all managers and you all have different styles , and you possibly do things in different ways . |
| 10 | Er there was a worry that well first of all the effect just the the appearance of the road passing through that area , clearly obviously concerns about development but that can be on on any route that can happen . |
| 11 | Another headcrunching mixture of ‘ Jungle House ’ ( let's have another term , please : ai n't there enough jibes about black people being from the jungle in Nazis ' heads already ? ) from Rebel MC 's terrifyingly on-the-case label . |
| 12 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 13 | The advent of small sample systems , in particular accelerator mass spectrometry ( AMS , see p. 122 ) has placed all but the very smallest objects within reach of radiocarbon : AMS only requires about 1 milligram of carbon . |
| 14 | De Corpore contains only hints about these sciences , and their further development is in the other two parts of Hobbes 's Elements of Philosophy — De Homine and De Cive . |
| 15 | Ponyboy constantly reminisces about those ‘ golden times ’ when his parents were alive and how , now , their lives were a daily struggle to survive and keep the remaining family together without the love , warmth and security that their parents would have provided . |
| 16 | So protests about the Government 's proposals to charge parents for extras ' such as swimming lessons and cooking materials fall wide of the mark . |
| 17 | Once a curriculum development centre or similar body is established , it naturally sets about developing curricula , usually with some fervour . |
| 18 | I keep harking on it and I do n't want to be labelled as the man who who constantly whinges about forwards diving . |
| 19 | 'E only talks about everyday fings . |
| 20 | so , so he , he makes quite a big point out of that , you know er that , and then he obviously talks about other things , the flour drum erm you know which basically vulgar performances of |
| 21 | The weekly covers things he more or less knows about and it seems more often to be of more direct concern to him and his family than an event that happened elsewhere . |
| 22 | This comparison has fazed her , as she only knows about Lee Krasner as the widow of Jackson Pollock ; so the library visit is intended to check out reproductions of Lee Krasner 's work , to see if she has to concede that her friend may be right . |
| 23 | He only knows about money , Arts Council grants , stuffy councillors going on about ‘ bums on seats ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway he only knows about greyhounds and worms in sheep . |
| 25 | Classroom interaction is even more complex than an interview because of the size of the group and the choices the teacher constantly makes about how to respond to what learners say . |
| 26 | She had just spent a weekend at home in Belfast dutifully admiring the latest Hennessy grandchild and enduring countless little digs about good Catholic girls and settling down to raise a family instead of racketing about the world enjoying herself — as if it was such a sin to enjoy life , for God 's sake , she thought angrily , and anyway six years as Sister in the accident and emergency department of the Audley Memorial in Suffolk hardly constituted racketing ! |
| 27 | Would somebody with expertise here like to define for the rest of us what what , what differentiates somebody with a , a , an eating disorder , er from someone who 's er a chronic dieter or a chronic worrier or no not a chronic dieter at all , but someone who just thinks about it a lot ? |
| 28 | If the hon. Gentleman just thinks about what he is saying , he will realise that it takes a Government one or two years to bring the economy round . |
| 29 | Meanwhile doubts about the private banks ' ability to cope caused mounting worries . |
| 30 | Check it ; and if someone tells you that the Royal Bank is now only interested in improving its bottom line , and no longer cares about people at all , he 's wrong . |