Example sentences of "[be] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephones are placed about ¼ apart , numbered 1–17 , not on all on the same side of the tunnel . |
| 2 | A chaotic ward , where no instructions are given about patient care , will usually result in bad nursing care . |
| 3 | If these social problems had not been so evidently worrying , it is highly unlikely that the active citizen would ever have been heard about . |
| 4 | During a full meeting of the convention later , Councillor John Connolly , of Central Region and chairman of the COSLA water and sewerage committee , said that since a great deal had been heard about taking stock it was time Mr Lang faced up to the fact that he had completely lost the argument for privatised water and sewerage services , including a franchise arrangement . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'll argue until the day I die that we are singing about something serious . |
| 6 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 7 | Is n't it strange that we are taught about many things which may never come to pass and yet most of us are not prepared for the one inevitable occurrence in our lives ? |
| 8 | At the same time ( to their confusion and bewilderment ) , they are taught about the gentleness of Jesus Christ . |
| 9 | When children are taught about democracy , this is what is meant . |
| 10 | This is such a sexist comment but boys are taught about all of this stuff before we are they 've got a lo lot more idea about drugs and all that lot than most girls are . |
| 11 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 12 | A few names have been bandied about the circuit , but I 'll predict that Ballymena 's Russell Morrow , the assistant manager for the past few years , will get the vote . |
| 13 | While ample reassurances have been given about the financial implications of this massive support for South Africa , IRB delegates from New Zealand , Australia , France , England , Scotland , Wales , Ireland , Japan , Italy , Canada and Argentina were startled to learn in detail of the parlous state of the new union . |
| 14 | It could be memorised easily and no warning had been given about its sensitivity . |
| 15 | The Test and County Cricket Board 's chief executive Alan Smith said he was satisfied with assurances he had been given about the safety of Graham Gooch 's 16-man squad . |
| 16 | A previous review of the default surcharge , conducted in 1989 , concluded that no substantive changes were necessary and , at this stage , no details have been given about any changes Customs are now proposing . |
| 17 | This programme experienced several problems , resulting in dangerously high sodium ion concentrations in home-made solutions and low usage rates of the solution by those who had been taught about it . |
| 18 | The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 19 | And surprisingly only one in five teenagers questioned had been taught about homosexuality and lesbianism in school . |
| 20 | Almond and Verba found that having been taught about government increases a sense of subjective political competence . |
| 21 | General theories are formulated about supposedly universal topics , for instance , about attribution of emotions , or friendship formation or schematic information-processing , etc . |
| 22 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 23 | Although the parties are guarded about details of the deal , it seems that Astra loaned Channel 29 for the occasion , BSkyB provided the movie material , the EC chipped in some money and Philips did deals with Pace to produce wide screen decoders . |
| 24 | Initial judgements are formed about whether the other person is friendly or unfriendly , confident or timid , trustworthy or untrustworthy , nice or nasty . |
| 25 | Everyday opinions are formed about the organisation and its activities . |
| 26 | ALL economists are blushing about their recent forecasting failures ( see page 91 ) , and the International Monetary Fund is no exception . |
| 27 | In England too , kings and laymen had been admonished about their lives and duties , and the church often sought royal authority for the measures it put forward . |
| 28 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 29 | Terms like cunt and slag are bandied about even more often than the cock and the fist , and once again , women do not have a parallel powerful language with which to hit back . |
| 30 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |