Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] about [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they should be thinking about it right from the word go . |
| 2 | Team appraisal thus involves sharing with colleagues your own strengths and weaknesses and what you and they think could or should be done about them . |
| 3 | We need to investigate whether such moral perceptions are accurate , if only to know what should be done about them . |
| 4 | For instance , we have a large-scale project erm at the moment which is concerned with falling numbers in secondary education and what should be done about them . |
| 5 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 6 | But neither Paul Johnson nor the party says what should be done about it . |
| 7 | He was appalled that such a story should appear in a newspaper , and the council , he said , would meet to determine what should be done about it . |
| 8 | Something should be done about it . |
| 9 | And , if not , what they think should be done about it . |
| 10 | Looking at what went wrong with the ERM and what should be done about it , both conclude that the system is fundamentally sound but needs better management . |
| 11 | At the end of a book almost entirely devoted to arguing for a strong genetic component in the causes of crime , he turns his attention to the contemporary ‘ crime wave ’ and what should be done about it . |
| 12 | If the reports do contribute negatively , what should be done about it ? |
| 13 | That applies as much to hon. Members opposite , to whose arguments for improving the system under their regime I look forward , as to other hon. Members with their proposals about what should be done about it . |
| 14 | erm yes , erm it 's very sad that there are people , and something should be done about it , but if you were to have a society , a perfect society , where there was no need for people to sleep out rough , or to sleep rough , you would still find some people who would sleep rough . |
| 15 | In the case of Dr Jordan , they have the figures in front of them and it 's quite understandable that questions should be asked about his unusually high night-time payments . |
| 16 | ‘ It is disgraceful the chancellor should get this money and that no one should be told about it . ’ |
| 17 | If it is to be implemented by the Scottish Office , we should be told about it . |
| 18 | suggest the kinds of questions they should be asking about their children 's education ; |
| 19 | When your people talk about the organization they should be talking about you . |
| 20 | It shows that something more must be said about what a convention is , about how much and what kind of agreement is necessary in order that a particular proposition of law can be true in virtue of a particular legal convention . |
| 21 | ‘ And , Herr Busacher , I think something must be done about her costumes for the other productions . |
| 22 | It 's all right to build bridges with South Africa , but if bridges are falling down in Wales something must be done about it . ’ |
| 23 | The world summit for children which took place at the weekend caught the headlines around the world and the world 's leaders put their heads together and agreed that children all round the world are suffering and something must be done about it . |
| 24 | But , as she remembered her meeting with him that next day , she realised that she must be mistaken about his meaning of the word interest and the connotation she would like to put on it . |
| 25 | Three fundamental points must be made about his ideological make-up . |
| 26 | Again , in order to preserve the assumption of relevance , an inference must be made about who is to do what : since the last mention of someone doing something involved B going to A , that is presumably what A intends , and may thus be taken to have meant . |
| 27 | One thing must be remembered about their experience as part of a group : they would all have started work when there were large numbers of young girls in the composing-room , whose atmosphere would have reflected this , differing from that of the men 's composing-room where the spread of ages was much greater . |
| 28 | It is about what has happened since , and why and what might be done about it . |
| 29 | No one took issue with this , but there was no one present to say what might be done about it . |
| 30 | Therese said , ‘ Mon petit , the people who talk do n't matter , I was n't thinking of them , I was thinking of your mother , of what they might be saying about her . ’ |