Example sentences of "be [verb] about [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |
| 2 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 3 | The twins , David and Michael , had been prowling about in the front garden waiting for the sight of Belinda 's car , and as soon as she stepped out into the driveway and came up the path to the house they raced ahead of her inside to relay the news of her arrival , without even saying hello to her . |
| 4 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 5 | You 've been mooning about for a few weeks , ’ she chuckled , ruefully . |
| 6 | The nucleons are whirling about within a sphere of only 10 -15 m at 100 000 km per second . |
| 7 | They 're blundering about like a ship in the fog , with no terms of reference to steer by . |
| 8 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 9 | The interest of this curious bower is much enhanced by the manner in which it is decorated with the most gaily-coloured articles that can be collected , such as the blue tail-feathers of the Rose-hill and Pennantian Parrakeets , bleached bones , the shells of snails , & c some of the feathers are inserted among the twigs , while others with the bones and shells are strewn about near the entrances . |
| 10 | The confidence that often comes with maturity can help us to voice our sexual preferences to our partners in a way which we may have been inhibited about in the past , and the ability to communicate sexual needs gives a good foundation for a satisfying relationship . |
| 11 | Although the role of Western doctors in the introduction of Western medicine to China has been known about in a general sense for a long time , no studies exist which assess the contributions of British doctors in the last two centuries , yet evidence suggests that these were by no means insubstantial . |
| 12 | The twins ' ignorance of narrative technique stems from a change in education which has been brought about as a result of the increasing dominance of science over the humanities . |
| 13 | Significant economic growth and social change has been brought about as a result of the offshore oil and gas industry . |
| 14 | If an estate agent is convicted under the act the client does not automatically have a right of action in civil proceedings for loss which may have been brought about as a result of the offence . |
| 15 | In September 1956 liturgical leaders , including six cardinals and 800 bishops , came together in Assisi to express their gratitude to the pope for all the changes that had been brought about in the liturgy during his pontificate . |
| 16 | This decentralization of the British population out of the cities has been brought about by a number of factors . |
| 17 | Compared with the competitive surplus of ACPc this change has been brought about by a loss of RCK , due to output restriction ( i.e. monopolisation per se ) and a creation of additional producer surplus of PcKEG , due to the ability of the enlarged monopolised firm to achieve lower costs . |
| 18 | Pathologist Ernest Walton said his death had been brought about by a combination of internal bleeding due to multiple injuries and alcoholic liver disease , which caused liver failure . |
| 19 | At the same time , it was accepted that all the talks , petitions , donations and arguments had been brought about by the imminence of the Commonwealth Conference , where the Secretary-General , Sonny Ramphal , has warned that Britain may find itself in a minority of one over South Africa . |
| 20 | For a Christian , it should be almost impossible to judge which changes have been brought about by the marriage and which have been brought about by the love of God . |
| 21 | For a Christian , it should be almost impossible to judge which changes have been brought about by the marriage and which have been brought about by the love of God . |
| 22 | This change has been brought about by the activities of prescriptive grammarians and educators , not — as the Harvard account implies — by some mysterious property of the language itself . |
| 23 | These changes , radical in the UN context , have been brought about by the changes in the nature of the UN 's missions , and in the soldiers who carry them out . |
| 24 | In many insects the number of veins is less than in the hypothetical type , and the reduction has been brought about by the degeneration or complete atrophy of a vein , or of one or more of its branches , or by the coalescence of adjacent veins . |
| 25 | The advent of mass unemployment has largely been brought about by the destruction of full-time jobs in manufacturing industry : a fall of 2 million since 1979 ( Hansard , 30 November 1987 , col. 398 ) . |
| 26 | The poverty trap has been brought about by the interaction of the paying of tax and the loss of means-tested assistance on each £1 of additional earnings . |
| 27 | Losing Out maintains that the widening of class differences along a whole front has largely been brought about by the Government 's ‘ success , in redistributing income and wealth towards the haves to the exclusion of the have-nots , and that this widening of class differences is playing a crucial role in the emergence of an underclass in Britain . |
| 28 | This has been brought about by the increase in unemployment and the abolition of the statutory minimum wage , together with a programme of Government ministers exalting employers to reduce wage settlements , particularly for the low-paid . |
| 29 | In the last twenty years , those of us who work in these services have seen revolutionary changes which have been brought about by the use of state-of-the-art scientific technological developments . |
| 30 | Part of the recent rise in sterling 's value had been brought about by the purchase of sterling by overseas investors wishing to buy UK government bonds . |