Example sentences of "be [verb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this the picture must have been painted about 1588 , with which the style and the age of the sitter agree . |
| 2 | In consequence , hitherto untouched lands are now being exploited ; and more intense land-use pressures coupled with an increased demand for fuelwood are bringing about environmental change at an unprecedented rate . |
| 3 | Some say it is they who are bringing about these times that are upon us . |
| 4 | ECMT papers report that existing and planned emission controls are bringing about significant reductions in air and noise pollution levels . |
| 5 | Here again , developments in computers are bringing about rapid changes . |
| 6 | recent Government White Papers are bringing about fundamental changes in many areas of further education , the most obvious being the upgrading of polytechnics to university status , together with the disbandment of the Council for National Academic Awards through which polytechnics awarded their degrees . |
| 7 | Falling rolls and rapid technological and social change are bringing about constant adjustments and shifts in the secondary school curriculum , demanding in turn a degree of flexibility and adaptability on the part of the teaching force . |
| 8 | The police said that a telephone warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion but the caller had been " deliberately misleading " about the location of the bomb . |
| 9 | To the point where the tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 10 | The tour had been cancelled about four times . |
| 11 | Tranquil and relaxing , the small but delightful Village and Whitehouse hotels are located about 800 metres apart , on the unspoilt Chaweng Beach amid beautiful gardens . |
| 12 | It 's been done , it 's been done about two weeks |
| 13 | A rough fireplace surrounded by stones had been built about two metres in front of it , and grey ash fitted the centre of the ring . |
| 14 | It was a very sound brick structure and had been built about 1868 but it had the notorious reputation of being called ‘ Lover 's Leap ’ , no doubt due to the fact that several suicide attempts had been made from its high parapet , most of them fatal . |
| 15 | Here we have 140 scientists , who are deliberating about 2,000 genes . |
| 16 | All seven have full-time jobs but all have been averaging about 50 miles a week in training recently . |
| 17 | you 're given about four or five years to play with one and one makes two , Yes he 's doing |
| 18 | Right erm we have run two now er unit data correction runs and it looks like we 're correcting about seventy six percent , on average , of the policy base erm the other twenty four percent being cases which are being sliced erm multiple events , you know , er and all the rest of it , all real horror stories . |
| 19 | And er anyway , I says , Darren , I said they 're wanting about two hundred and odd pound for a caravan you know ! |
| 20 | So they 're going about four o'clock . |
| 21 | Including what we build in Austria , we 're selling about 70,000 vehicles . |
| 22 | But there again you 're getting about ten |
| 23 | We 're getting about twenty in , it 's really serious . |
| 24 | Erm well erm I I normally work four days a week but I 'm not working today because we 're having about twenty people around for a buffet supper tonight so I 'm very busy cooking . |
| 25 | ‘ If they 're running about all day in the fresh air , that 'll make them hungry , I should think ! ’ |
| 26 | wood machine , they 're doing about thirty odd thousand revs you know , so I mean |
| 27 | One of the things that we need to , to work out , and Mark 's gon na do some work on that and , and Maureen pro primarily to identify that erm we 're spending about thirty five , thirty six K a month over at the moment . |
| 28 | They 're joining about 350 colleagues from Dalton Barracks already stationed there . |
| 29 | They 're coming about half past three on Friday . |
| 30 | You 're babysitting about three are n't you ? |