Example sentences of "[that] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr Imai 's analysis makes clear , the term keiretsu is used to refer to so many different kinds of industrial groups in Japan that generalising about all of them , and especially complaining about them as a group , makes little sense . |
| 2 | If Zapp believes that writing about literature has nothing to do with liking it , Swallow likes it all too much to be able to write about it : |
| 3 | Thus in general , Solihull secondary teachers believe that staff would be more honest if names were kept off the response sheets ; that the scheme focuses on weaknesses rather than strengths and that generalizing about schools as a whole is difficult . |
| 4 | Darwin did not have to overthrow a coherent and worked-out theory ; he had to persuade contemporaries that hypothesizing about origins was worthwhile . |
| 5 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 6 | Have n't you ever heard that saying about those who forget history being doomed to repeat it ? |
| 7 | FROGS : Some people think that knowing about frogs is important . |
| 8 | But an important thing to recognise at the outset is that knowing about oneself can never be a matter of ‘ mere information ’ . |
| 9 | The results showed that knowing about the theme of the passage only at recall did not improve performance . |
| 10 | We have to encourage counsellees that talking about the issues which worry them might be helpful . |
| 11 | And so you 'll appreciate that talking about himself doing it and then having to read the result is doubly distasteful . |
| 12 | In terms of the semantic features of ‘ Motherese ’ , there is considerable evidence to support the view that talking about objects and events in the immediate surroundings is helpful . |
| 13 | Everyone knows that talking about AIDS and the future is very difficult . |
| 14 | He had a superstitious fear that talking about Kate would mean losing a part of her , would be a sort of sacrilege . |
| 15 | Another five thought that talking about it was a waste of time . |
| 16 | It can only realize its full potential when , at a school level , head and senior staff are actively committed to its use and prepared to involve themselves in discussion sessions , demonstrating , by example , allegiance to the notion that talking about areas of personal anxiety , confusion and failure is an essential part of professional development for all . |
| 17 | This speed that talking about but I think it corresponds to the movement of the fox . |
| 18 | The fact that the tasks as used in Study 3 turned out not to be completely unrelated to risk does not necessarily compromise this result , it may simply reflect the fact that thinking about risk is an extremely natural thing to do in this type of situation . |