Example sentences of "[coord] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try never to do or say anything to a teacher ( or about a teacher ) that you would not like done or said to you . |
| 2 | Selection of a partner may be based in the first place largely on feeling for or about a parent . |
| 3 | For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) . |
| 4 | All of these pavements , however , appear , to a greater or lesser extent , as vigorous and inventive designs , with an ease of draughtsmanship and the suggestion of free movement from or about a central point . |
| 5 | Labour present is Neil Kinnock , who speaks for 63 minutes and quotes Robert Frost about miles to go and promises to keep , and about a brighter dawn when poverty , privilege , fear , disease , woe , and war shall live only in the memory of time . |
| 6 | The film director is pursuing the style of his earlier films , about the Vietnam war and about a pop group called the Doors . |
| 7 | It 's close to the shops and about a two minute walk from the small town beach — most people ten to take a boat or dolmus to larger beaches outside the town , like Gumbet . |
| 8 | James Scott in his Railway Romance and Other Essays observed : ‘ It is mainly the human interest to be found in and about a railway station which is the secret of its fascination . ’ |
| 9 | A twin-humbucker-equipped bass sounded rich and heavy with the pre-shape back in and about a 6dB boost at 50 and 100Hz . |
| 10 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 11 | The bottle was full of dry crystals about as thick as an ordinary pin and about a centimetre long . |
| 12 | I have to write to them and ask them and about a month later they reply to me and I pass it on to her . |
| 13 | How could he know — and about a matter of such small importance to such a man ? |
| 14 | ‘ Anyhow , he got all the horses from Billingford Hall ; and about a month later he got the horses from Hoxne farms , and some time later he got all the horses from Redgrave farms . |
| 15 | I 've known Kate since she was a child , and about a month ago I went to see her . |
| 16 | They talked about the latest sensation — some wretched murder — and about a woman , a maidservant , who was to be tried for the murder in Geneva the next day ! |
| 17 | The Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences and parts of the Department of Veterinary Pathology and Veterinary Clinical Studies ( including the Small Animal Practice ) are based at Summerhall lying close to the University 's Arts and Social Sciences campus and to the Medical School , and about a mile from the Faculty of Science and Engineering campus at the King 's Buildings . |
| 18 | In a study of a forest as a whole , the Budongo Forest in Uganda , it was found that 40% of all seeds were eaten by rodents before and immediately after germination and about a further 30% were killed in 2 years by browsing antelope , while there were further losses from seed rot , insect and fungal attack and drought . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything 's more forward here , ’ she noticed , as they went by a line of horse-chestnut trees that were leafy and about a month in advance of those in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 20 | ( and about a former life ) . |
| 21 | In my own turfs we are quarrelling among ourselves with intense energy about whether women can be ordained priests , about who is more Catholic than their neighbour and about a whole host of internal issues , because we apparently have neither the grace nor the guts to face up to the real issues which are the business of the Church in the current world . |
| 22 | To fix the sledge you use the snow hook , shaped like a double fish hook but about a foot long and wide . |
| 23 | ‘ I have n't come to argue about politics , but about a nuisance … ’ just the slightest hesitation and a hint of a stammer . |
| 24 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 25 | A year head who talks about one of the phrases — ‘ go back to your own country ’ — referred to by this group of girls , provides evidence in support of their assertions — but about a different teacher . |
| 26 | At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction . |
| 27 | Not about everything , mind , but about a couple of things . |
| 28 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 29 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 30 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |