Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know . |
| 2 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 3 | If , in the real world , you could n't always realise the perfection of the model , the miniature , the diagram , at least the pattern had something in it to be pleased about . |
| 4 | So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes . |
| 5 | Philip had a great deal to be pleased about . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody 's going to be pleased about this . |
| 7 | Assuming that Same can cure these quality-control ills , then there 's not much else left to be negative about on this most modern of 1990s tractors . |
| 8 | From a parent 's point-of-view , it is important to be honest about family problems , to yourself , to your partner , and to others . |
| 9 | You need to be honest about your personality , your capabilities and the amount of money you have available . |
| 10 | One way to overcome difficulties with lack of confidence is to try to be honest about how you feel . |
| 11 | Amid the tears and the angry words , she pleaded with him to be honest about how he felt about her and Camilla . |
| 12 | He replied : ‘ Really he did n't impress me very much , to be honest about it . |
| 13 | I 'm trying to be honest about him , and about myself . |
| 14 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , he had a very good record in England but I feel hi is sacrificing skill at the expense of power — or brute force if one is to be honest about it . ’ |
| 16 | He would only be able to find his way back to her when he managed , for once in his life , to be honest about what he really felt and believed . |
| 17 | I 'd sooner have the duvet to be honest about it ! |
| 18 | Also , men have no worries about pregnancy and single parenthood , they still seem to be blithe about AIDS , and have n't taken heed of the warning from One Plus One ( formerly the Marriage Research Council ) that men cast out of marriage between the ages of 25 and 50 are twice as likely to die prematurely and drink too much . |
| 19 | In its early days software is tested by programmers and expert , hand picked users , who tend to be reasonable about they way they use machines . |
| 20 | Gryschenko had been known to be unhappy about embarking on the first leg of the race . |
| 21 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 22 | ‘ What have I got to be unhappy about ? ’ |
| 23 | Although Churchill sometimes appeared to be unhappy about it , planning for the peace was widely accepted as a legitimate political task during the war . |
| 24 | It is all too easy to be cynical about British fashion , but his constructive criticism and public demand for action is long overdue . |
| 25 | It is easy and almost certainly wrong to be cynical about in-service training . |
| 26 | VAT is certainly not a glamorous subject and it is easy for those dealing with it to be cynical about it . |
| 27 | One thing to be grateful about from my point of view … that Yorkies are n't the size of Rottweilers ! |
| 28 | You have to accept the fact that she will not be feeling she has too much to be grateful about , when she ruminates on the loss of her home and some of her previous complete independence . |
| 29 | Senior civil servants , the privileged connoisseurs of prime-ministerial style and procedure , tend not to be purist about the operational implications of Cabinet conventions , except when routinely deploying them in the occasional public lecture or dismissing requests for the early declassification of harmless material . |
| 30 | It is harder to be confident about Romania , if only because politicians there , of whatever stripe , mostly treat their opponents as liars and scoundrels . |