Example sentences of "be [v-ing] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's true he was in Oxford while I was there , and the schools were no very safe place to be singing about great Llewelyn in his seven-foot grave , or making verses after the manner of Cynddelw . |
| 2 | If he had his way , and we signed up for the social chapter , those extra costs would have to be met out of those pay packets and there 'd be even less for people to take in wages so the honourable gentleman should n't be complaining about low pay when he wants to add to the costs of employment along with the rest of his party . |
| 3 | So that if our speaker for example had been John from the Halifax Building Society he would only be talking about Global Investments . |
| 4 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 5 | Today we 'll be talking about sexual harassment in Oxford colleges . |
| 6 | Because if we ca n't generalize then I , perhaps I should be talking about British foreign policy or Iranian foreign policy or South African foreign policy are there generalizations we can make and say well it is similar for all governments ? |
| 7 | Possibly , in some sectors and some parts of the country , though I am sure we will still be talking about unfavourable productivity and unit cost comparisons with West Germany and the US . |
| 8 | Two people who think they are disagreeing may , in fact , be talking about different things and would n't disagree if they were talking about the same thing , but it 's important to recognise that when the university and colleges talk about what they want to do about sexual harassment , they certainly imagine that a range of different forms of response are going to be appropriate to this range of different forms of behaviour , ranging from on the one hand education , encouraging people to think they have a right to protest and answer back , to giving them access to erm people who may mediate and persuade another person who they 're not making an impact on that their behaviour is unreasonable , to the most extreme disciplinary procedures against someone who 's behaving in a way which is generally thought to be unacceptable and who 's not prepared to desist . |
| 9 | Well I think this is partly one of the reasons that as urologists we need to be thinking about changing gear . |
| 10 | ‘ It subtly reminds the client that they should be thinking about legal issues on a regular basis , ’ said . |
| 11 | You are more likely to be thinking about other things while you are driving along , like what you are going to do when you reach your destination . |
| 12 | She was meant to be thinking about happy things . |
| 13 | Little girls of ten should n't be thinking about dreary things like funerals . |
| 14 | There would be a nice smell of baking and we 'd be chatting about old times or the grandchildren . |