Example sentences of "about [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | About where it is . |
| 2 | In the solid ( below the glass transition or in the crystalline state ) the " spaghetti " is somewhat less able to slide about than it is in the liquid state . |
| 3 | ‘ What about if it was ten years ago ? ’ you may ask . |
| 4 | How about if it was smirring |
| 5 | ‘ How about if it was the only way you could save yourself losing every corporate customer you 've got ? ’ |
| 6 | What was P P G three revised all about if it was n't about er the issue of affordable housing ? |
| 7 | Erm , clearly we are in a room full of people who have a more than marginal interest in the political process erm and that goes for your boundaries of Cambridge city councils er remit and clearly contains also to parliamentary methods erm I 'm trying not to be desperately partisan about this , I do n't expect anybody erm but a phrase has been used earlier this evening from another quarter about if it 's not broke do n't fix it , erm the boundary commission have looked at the boundaries of the Cambridge city constituency have found that it is up to ninety nine percent of the right and proper er number of electors . |
| 8 | You talk about if it 's something you 're used to you talk about something and you know what you 're talking of and somebody a bit like actual |
| 9 | And if it if it I 'm more surprised about if it 's successful . |
| 10 | It made Bella shriek and wave her arms about and it set Joe drumming his fingers on the table with that quiet disapproval that was worse than anything Bella could do . |
| 11 | You will find you have access to swims you once only dreamed about and it becomes possible for you to float fish in swims which can only be fished with leger tackle from the bank . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I do know what these designers are talking about and it 's light years away from the ever-so-respectable , traditional French and Italian fashion design . |
| 14 | I 'm never bothered about taking a chance , that 's something I feel good about and it will eventually happen . ’ |
| 15 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 16 | that you worrying about and it me means a bit more work for us |
| 17 | Quite often in , in reality they do n't get thought about and it 's quite often these sort of things which cause programmes not to work , because on site people work round them . |
| 18 | Police radio describes how they 're giving up the chase because there are a lot of children about and it could be dangerous . |
| 19 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 20 | You know it was I I was n't really pleased about but it was a good evening . |
| 21 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's been reported that they centre on fraud and sexual harassment at Redoaks . |
| 22 | Nottinghamshire County Council wo n't confirm what the latest allegations are about but it 's reported that they centre on fraud and sexual abuse at Redoaks . |
| 23 | Oh it was genuinely gone quite genuine , he said you now , he had a , that we know about but it had genuine |
| 24 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 25 | Something one does without properly thinking about because it helps a friend out . |
| 26 | Um one of the things that you sometimes find is that the abuse is characterised is something special , something secret , something that you should n't tell anybody else about because it 's our secret and you know what happens to people who tell secrets ? |
| 27 | Critics seem to have it the other way round , so there 's a lot of stuff talked about me using different styles , but there does n't seem to be much said about whether it works , or whether it 's done with taste , or whether the end result is worth having . |
| 28 | It was just that City enjoyed one of those rare days when everything went right , even though some of the Maine Road faithful will have mixed feelings about whether it was an occasion for celebration . |
| 29 | ‘ There are many reservations about whether it would be approved ethically . ’ |
| 30 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |