Example sentences of "that about " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Clews , of Pintail , says that about the only request for spares was due to a shaft breaking when a burr caught in clothing . |
| 2 | They said that about Sadat : ‘ How can you trust him ? |
| 3 | In the first week of the campaign over half our panel felt Labour was addressing the issue , but under one-third thought that about the Alliance and only one-fifth about the Conservative party . |
| 4 | Wundt wrote that about ‘ horde , meaning … an unorganized , in contrast to an organized , tribe of people … |
| 5 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 6 | Yet it 's estimated that about one in five of us is affected . |
| 7 | I really like that about cats — the way they keep themselves clean . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I would n't say that about Swallow , ’ Robyn demurred . |
| 9 | ‘ But unless someone else says that about you , there 's no way of believing in it totally , ’ he said . |
| 10 | That ‘ I knew the moment I saw him ’ ? ( people do say that about their men , more often than you 'd think ) . |
| 11 | Pliny the Elder , writing in the later first century AD , says that about the time of Vulso 's triumph statues of wood and terracotta ceased to be used at Rome and were replaced by luxuria from Asia Minor . |
| 12 | Seve 's always been convinced the Americans have got it in for him , anyway , but he 's said that about the French , the Italians , the Japanese . |
| 13 | How is it that about one third of the rainfall is lost ? |
| 14 | In a 1975 survey on library lectures and their evaluation , Hernon found that about two-thirds of the responding libraries were not evaluating their library lecture programmes . |
| 15 | When he said that about kidneys and tigers I 'd felt a shock of fear . |
| 16 | It so happened that about this period the trend was towards vestments on more simple lines . |
| 17 | It did not help matters that about the time Rowell 's rather reluctant jab at some New Zealand rugby habits was being published it occupied space beside reports that the All Blacks had been over-vigorous — and sometimes over-the-top — in their match against New South Wales at Sydney . |
| 18 | I never thought I 'd live to say that about a film from the BFI . |
| 19 | The Bank of England has acted quickly to take advantage of the demand and it is believed that about one third of the 1992/93 funding programme has already been completed . |
| 20 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 21 | If he feels that about the media in general , he feels it particularly about the Italian press . |
| 22 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 23 | Why , Eileen wondered , is it all right for her to say that about her husband 's mother , and wrong for me to tell the truth about Mrs Arbuthnot ? |
| 24 | ‘ If you say that about the Irish , why did you marry my mother ? ’ |
| 25 | It was estimated that about 70–80% of participators did ‘ some business ’ , with top sales of $850,000 for ‘ The Illustrious Dream Maker ’ by Max Ernst sold by Jeffrey Loria , and $800,000 for a 1935 Rufina Tamayo ‘ Still Life with Watermelons ’ sold by Mary-Anne Martin to a Mexican collector . |
| 26 | There was always that about him — the Welsh chieftain down from the hills on a raid to seize the bounty of the fat rich oppressor and then ride home back into the trackless labyrinths of his past . |
| 27 | Duthie ( 1970 ) , in studying the teacher 's day , estimated that about one-third of a teacher 's time was taken up with duties of a non-professional nature which ‘ auxiliaries ’ could undertake . |
| 28 | A sample by OPCS of over 1000 couples divorced in 1979 showed that about one-third of both divorced husbands and divorced wives had remarried within two and a half years ( Central Statistical Office , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | She found that about two-thirds of the women whom she studied had relied upon female kin at some stage , and that most of the support which they received was child care , coming principally from mothers and mothers-in-law , but also sisters , sisters-in-law , aunts and grandmothers . |
| 30 | The old process of commuting death sentences also remained in effect , and the result of these arrangements was that about half of all eighteenth-century felons were transported , so that about 30,000 were sent to North America in the next 60 years . |