Example sentences of "be [vb pp] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter examines a study , where , at the outset , the analysts were not entirely clear what could be achieved by using soft systems analysis , but felt it would provide an overview of the situation , enabling ideas to be formulated about new relationships that would arise from a fundamental change in role . |
| 2 | A point which needs to be emphasized about brief , shallow surveys of the types exemplified in the Philadelphia and Belfast research is that they are most rewarding when they are designed to solve quite specifiable and well-understood problems . |
| 3 | If teachers dislike the pseudo-democracy of being consulted after decisions have been taken , if they are irritated by being consulted over matters of little consequence and if they are satisfied that senior staff have the right to make decisions without staff consultation , they nevertheless expect to be consulted about major issues . |
| 4 | Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant . |
| 5 | Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant . |
| 6 | You should be kept informed and be consulted about Compact developments . |
| 7 | I 've read that our children will be taught about other faiths . |
| 8 | The local area will be a most important resource and notes can be included about possible sites , buildings , museums , and so on . |
| 9 | Of course , surveys will continue to be written about American painting or German art , British sculpture or Australian print-making ; this fact of publication does not mean that these activities have an inner coherence . |
| 10 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Only by understanding these basic factors can managers appreciate the context before decisions can be made about appropriate technology and other factors that may be needed to deliver the system . |
| 12 | Similar observations could be made about front-line paraprofessionals in all the countries we studied who are drawn from local communities or who share common experiences and characteristics with client groups . |
| 13 | One final point can be made about current uses of ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 14 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 15 | It is hard to see what kind of claims might reasonably be made about linguistic variation expressed as average scores of groups such as these ( an additional difficulty being the abstract and contentious nature of social class labels ) . |
| 16 | The discussion above by no means exhausts the observations that might be made about postnominal attributives . |
| 17 | One further observation might be made about pedagogic research . |
| 18 | Before we proceed to the changes brought about in this system by the Yorkist and Tudor sovereigns , certain general observations must be made about medieval administration . |
| 19 | The choices which can be made about organizational design should not be obscured by stressing ‘ functional imperatives ’ rather than ‘ political action ’ . |
| 20 | Two summary points can be made about dominant and subordinate cultures . |
| 21 | I also wish something could be done about persistent passing back of the ball . |
| 22 | Before considering what can be done about colic , we need to look at the question of lactose and lactose intolerance . |
| 23 | Could something be done about fair trade ? |
| 24 | Nothing much can be done about missing pets , but the impression of diligence and earnestness they leave with the bereft alone is a comfort . |
| 25 | Returning from our detour , what , if anything , can be said about regulated and publicly owned companies compared with public liability companies ? |
| 26 | Taken together , these problems raise the issue of whether anything useful can be said about Black women from a research tradition which has failed to engage with their lives . |
| 27 | Is there anything to be said about other phrase types : prepositional phrases , adverb phrases , adjective phrases ? |
| 28 | This means that something at least must be said about alternative types of ambiguity , although a detailed treatment would be well beyond the scope of this book . |
| 29 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 30 | There was , and perhaps still is , a school of thought which asserted that armorial devices were assumed for identification in battle , but both research and common sense say this is probably wrong , for as so many knights chose arms of similar design , the mud , blood and turmoil of battle would have rendered such symbols on shields of little value , although the same can not , of course , be said about armorial banners or pennons bravely waving above rallying points or on the ends of lances . |