Example sentences of "about [noun prp] [is] [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 | ‘ All I can say about Chelsea is that Newcastle United would be a bigger club if we got things right here . ’ |
4 | The main complaint that I have about d'Compress is that it does not use standard DOS key and mouse commands . |
5 | All the cops know about Mahoney is that he worked for Joey Bonanza . |
6 | But the feeling about Faldo is that if he is at the top of his game , he should win it . |
7 | The most interesting fact revealed about Norma is that the poor dear is obviously deranged . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The extraordinary thing about Greene is that he wrote over decades and changed so fluently from a pre-war to a post-war writer . |
12 | The first thing to be said about Bateman is that he was a Londoner ! |
13 | One good thing about Fuengirola is that there is a Moorish castle ruin on the beach at the southern end . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The great thing about BarclayPlus is that your savings are always within reach . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | One of the objections frequently made about CAI is that it does not permit student-student interaction . |
18 | The thing to bear in mind about Johnson is that he 's a very , very , self-conscious professional kind of writer . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | The thing about Martina is — the thing about Marina is that I ca n't find a voice to summon her with . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | One of the most baffling phenomena in the debate about Europe is that Britain seems to be the only country worried about national sovereignty . |
23 | What is worrying about Nautilus is that the quality of its retina suggests that it would really benefit , greatly and immediately , from a lens . |
24 | Surely the whole point about Telecasters is that they 're tough , they 're basic and they sound ace , and how can you really play a Tele if you 're worried about scratching the thing ? |
25 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
26 | Doshi , whose 33 tests brought him 114 wickets , including five-wicket hauls in an innings on six occasions , said : ‘ The great thing about Tufnell is that he is willing to experiment . |
27 | The big thing about Butch is that she is n't just a dumb blonde , as she herself stressed . |
28 | Indeed and I think the er the point about Eurofighter is that it 's a very flexible er aircraft , it 's a multi-role aircraft , it 's a cost effective aircraft and therefore it er , as you say , may well be able to cover quite a large spectrum . |
29 | Casting a disdainful eye around the room , Nicky declared : ‘ The only good thing about America is that you killed JOHN LENNON . ’ |
30 | What I like about Mark is that he 's not afraid to be funny with the crowd . |