Example sentences of "about [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talk about seeing is believing ! |
| 2 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 3 | Not wishing to think about dying is a natural response for those who wish to direct their care and attention to the living . |
| 4 | Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you 're going to paint . |
| 5 | Economic questions about ageing are seen by them to have an explicitly political dimension because the state , being the major determinant of the economic status of the elderly population , is regarded as capable ( and culpable ) of creating a new sort of deliberately structured dependency among old people . |
| 6 | As indicated earlier the most persistent of all stereotypes about ageing is that the later phases of the life cycle are a time of universal , and inevitable , biological decline . |
| 7 | ‘ The thing about directing is that it depends on how you read a play . |
| 8 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 9 | We were on about going were n't we ? |
| 10 | The most important thing to remember about juggling is that , if you throw the ball well , the catch will look after itself , except for those one in ten people who have great difficulty in holding on to the ball . |
| 11 | If only the head and deputies , on the other hand , can be involved ( a limitation which is sometimes unavoidable unless lengthy and massive planning subgroups are to be put to work ) then they , as managers , must make sure that the decisions about sharing are understood within their schools . |
| 12 | The great thing about drilling is that it can be fun , but remember not to spend too much time on one particular drill , since boredom can easily set in and have a disruptive influence . |
| 13 | okay I think what we might think about doing is maybe just having a meeting for an hour one evening on that one subject |
| 14 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 15 | To be thinking about partying was downright frivolous ! |
| 16 | Liza said something about having been ill so that she herself did n't go out much . |
| 17 | Allied to this comes guilt : guilt about being such a wimp ; guilt about being so secretive ; guilt about having been such a bitch or a bastard ; guilt about all the things not done ; guilt about mistakes and errors of judgement ; guilt , in other words , about Not Being Good Enough . |
| 18 | What you have to remember about parsing is that basically it 's a reflex ’ . |
| 19 | The worst thing about dieting is giving up cheese . |