Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her earlier years , there are the famous Ronsard poems extolling her charm and beauty , along with those in similar vein by the man who was to become her most vicious detractor , the great Scottish scholar George Buchanan — exactly the kind of thing which would naturally be written about an attractive young queen . |
| 2 | Here a note of caution should perhaps be added about the conventional wisdom that falling membership automatically leads to a decrease in trade union influence . |
| 3 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 4 | No agreement can thus be reached about the use of that space and its correct functioning ; the interfacing geometry can not be finalized and changes may need to be made in order to remove violation once construction has taken place within the black box . |
| 5 | It reaffirmed that LEAs must set up education committees and appoint a chief education officer , but the Secretary of State need no longer be consulted about the appointment of the latter . |
| 6 | May critical or unflattering things no longer be written about pupils ? |
| 7 | More specifically , the model of responsible party government carried within itself the view that the electorate would not just be informed about politics but would vote for the party which has a programme of policies in accord with their own view as to how things should be . |
| 8 | I could see without action my case would just be forgotten about |
| 9 | To pick once again examples relevant to awareness , philosophers have often argued on the assumption that since an observer can not be mistaken about what he sees or hears ( although he may mistakenly suppose that he has seen or heard it ) , or a thinker about what he knows , there must be infallible operations by which to arrive at this certainty . |
| 10 | I can not be mistaken about perceiving something as , say , a cigarette case , because in saying , ‘ It looks like a cigarette case ’ I am not saying that there is an appearance which is a cigarette case . |
| 11 | The same can not be said about languages in which the predicator frequently comes at the beginning of the clause and therefore represents an unmarked — or at least less marked — thematic choice . |
| 12 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 13 | But he would not be drawn about the prospect of being reunited with his estranged wife Becky or his affection for former girlfriend Arabella Tait . |
| 14 | Conclusions can not be drawn about the effectiveness of polychemotherapy for non-resectable non-small-cell lung cancer ( NSCLC ) because the published randomised trials of polychemotherapy vs supportive care have been too small . |
| 15 | The other worry is whether the child will or will not be told about his or her origin . |
| 16 | A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it . |
| 17 | Half an hour later Julia agreed the police should not be told about the number plate until Tuesday . |
| 18 | Following a decision to arrest a suspect he must not be interviewed about the relevant offence except at a police station … 11.4 . |
| 19 | Surely you ca n't still be bothered about Adam 's ridiculous gibe about you being brash and brassy ? ’ |
| 20 | Teenagers ( and children ) should always be told about future events involving them moving house , or father going into hospital for an operation so that they have time to adjust to the idea . |
| 21 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 22 | But I suppose you could say that it was a war that needed fighting ; if that can ever be said about any war . ’ |
| 23 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 24 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 25 | It is hard to see what kind of claims might reasonably be made about linguistic variation expressed as average scores of groups such as these ( an additional difficulty being the abstract and contentious nature of social class labels ) . |
| 26 | Murrell may also be questioned about the murder of 19-year-old Katie Rackliff at Cove , Hants , six weeks earlier . |
| 27 | The 26-year-old man will also be questioned about the murder of teenager Katie Rackliff six weeks earlier . |
| 28 | Since this last point can also be made about some of the ‘ billiard-ball ’ , ‘ cobweb ’ , and ‘ layer-cake ’ approaches now current , for instance where the demands of ‘ capitalist accumulation ’ are taken to be impersonal and determining , it is fair to describe the mainstream story as one from outside . |
| 29 | But Fodor goes on to argue that much of what can be said about reflexes can also be said about processes which we would normally regard as ‘ cognitive ’ rather than ‘ neurological ’ or ‘ behavioural ’ : the parsing of heard sentences , for example . |
| 30 | Thought should also be given about the comfort of parents at the meetings . |