Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [be] [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am trying to encourage our branches to be systematic about identifying and recording departure applications and other cases where it seems planning guidance and officers ' advice is being ignored . |
| 2 | Bear in mind that the Department of the Environment has guidelines encouraging local planners to be flexible about change of use where this may help to provide a new lease of life for a problem listed building . |
| 3 | Much of the finishing work has already transferred to Corporate Jet headquarters in Little Rock , Arkansas , and 269 redundancies have already been agreed for Broughton , causing workers to be worried about their long-term future . |
| 4 | Then , this method was effective , forcing ministers to watch over everything that might cause trouble and forcing officials to be punctilious about every major step they took . |
| 5 | There is not normally any corresponding selection on males to be choosy about who they mate with . |
| 6 | ‘ People have too many other things to be worrying about than remembering a revolution that did not achieve very much . ’ |
| 7 | Considerable though the gains can be from delegation , there are nevertheless some real obstacles that may lead managers to be wary about sharing their authority . |
| 8 | Erm also I mean and to help them with the audio tour , because the audio tour despite all our efforts to be clear about how it works , continually confuses people and they sort of , oh where am I , I thought I was in here . |
| 9 | She asks owners to be careful about what kind of oils they use on their pets . |
| 10 | But there are reasons to be optimistic about our economy … |
| 11 | I shall be dealing more fully with the use of the library in the next chapter , but I can not stress too strongly how important it is for all researchers to be knowledgeable about bibliographical sources and , sadly , how few social science undergraduates are actually taught the necessary skills . |
| 12 | However , if males differ in their quality , it could pay females to be choosy about which males they will mate with . |
| 13 | The arguments for jettisoning the rota system are strong , but for juniors to be enthusiastic about its replacement they need a better understanding of partial shifts and their benefits and disadvantages . |
| 14 | Life was often too difficult for working-class mothers to be overscrupulous about the birth of children . |
| 15 | It had to be admitted that there was plenty for the voters to be disgruntled about . |
| 16 | The need here is to encourage children to be precise about what they want to find out in their work . |
| 17 | The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures . |
| 18 | There are several reasons for policy makers to be concerned about inflation . |