Example sentences of "about [noun prp] [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the thing about Robbo is that he is a determined beggar and I know that if I ask him , he will say OK if he 's ready . |
| 2 | ‘ The great thing about Robbo is that he brings that bit extra out of people , ’ said Ferguson . |
| 3 | Her mother and sister were fine-looking women , but the odd thing about Sheila was that her beauty was not an enlargement or an enhancement of their near-handsomeness . |
| 4 | ‘ The most important thing I wanted to show about Feisal was that he was a nice person . |
| 5 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
| 6 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
| 7 | I seem to remember that the first information I ever had about Ben was that he had measles ! |
| 8 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 9 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
| 10 | But the feeling about Faldo is that if he is at the top of his game , he should win it . |
| 11 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
| 12 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 13 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 14 | But the fathers also insisted , and believing Christians have proclaimed it ever since , that although we do not fully understand the relationship between God and the Devil , the inescapable fact about Satan is that he has declared war on God and his creation . |
| 15 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
| 16 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
| 17 | One good thing about Fuengirola is that there is a Moorish castle ruin on the beach at the southern end . |
| 18 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 19 | Well , love , all I can say about Adam is that he 's Jake all over again — and being sensible never got anyone anywhere with Jake . |
| 20 | The great thing about BarclayPlus is that your savings are always within reach . |
| 21 | The thing about Kennedy is that every time I hear he has done something outrageous I think ‘ Oh God ! ’ , but then I spend a few hours working with him and leave thinking what a good heart he has and how serious he is as a musician . |
| 22 | All he knew about Somerset was that they had a cricket team and that the yokels drank cider and pronounced it ‘ zyder ’ . |
| 23 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
| 24 | The thing to bear in mind about Johnson is that he 's a very , very , self-conscious professional kind of writer . |
| 25 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 26 | The thing about Martina is — the thing about Marina is that I ca n't find a voice to summon her with . |
| 27 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 28 | All I knew about Waugh was that he was the son of the famous Evelyn , and has a reputation for the sort of scathing wit that seems to epitomise the self-appointed arbiters of literary , and more generally , artistic taste and standards . |
| 29 | One of the reasons I forgot about Ohio was that I wanted to forget that unhappy period of my life . |
| 30 | The import ant fact about Baudelaire is that he was essentially a Christian , born out of his due time , and a classicist , born out of his due time … his tendency to ‘ ritual ’ … springs from no attachment to the outward forms of Christianity , but from the instincts of a soul that was naturaliter Christian . |