Example sentences of "[adv] about a " in BNC.
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| 1 | unshareably about a face |
| 2 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 3 | The shops which they visit most frequently are likely to be within about a mile of their home . |
| 4 | As a rough guide base rates are usually kept within about a ¼ per cent margin either side of market rates , although it is possible to see base rates outside this ‘ guide ’ on occasion . |
| 5 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 6 | Then , in 1954 , as the car passed under what seemed a mediaeval or Renaissance courtyard gate there was Frederica , brooding grimly about a personal failure in a dreamed , unreal competition . |
| 7 | These documents demonstrate a commitment to developing broadly based , open political agitation , but they contain little about a civil rights strategy in the north ; such a strategy could be deduced from the analysis which they contain , but the documents give no indication that it had been proposed in any detail . |
| 8 | At the same time , the public hears little about a surprising and important discovery — not an assumption — of psychometrics . |
| 9 | To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents . |
| 10 | write coherently about a wide range of issues , ideas , incidents , etc ; organising different kinds of text in ways which help the reader ; |
| 11 | I am sure he has other purposes as well , it 's basically about a marriage breaking down |
| 12 | As well as the names of cities , coin inscriptions can tell us much about a city 's institutions and individuals . |
| 13 | To know this much about a student is better than nothing . |
| 14 | ‘ Angel , do n't worry so much about a country girl , ’ said his mother , anxious about her son 's state of mind . |
| 15 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 16 | The circuit however ‘ … lasted only about a month . |
| 17 | FROM July next year credit reference agencies will be allowed to supply financial information only about a person applying for credit , the Data Protection Registrar , Eric Howe , said yesterday . |
| 18 | The nearest sandy beach is only about a ten minute walk from the Venus and the West End of San Antonio is about 15 minutes away . |
| 19 | In face , it would be hard to get more central , especially with the nearest beach being only about a five minute walk away . |
| 20 | It 's only about a ten to fifteen minute stroll to the excellent sandy beach where a brilliant variety of watersports are on offer including water skiing , windsurfing , boat-hire , wet-biked etc . |
| 21 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 22 | We were only about a yard from the fairway , but we had trouble finding the ball . |
| 23 | This colony probably started as an offshoot of Glynleigh , being only about a mile away , and has not had more than eight nests . |
| 24 | A sculpture representing a king and queen was broken by the builder 's labourer who found it , revealing that the metal of the faces was only about a millimetre thick . |
| 25 | The challenge for Europe 's left parties will be to overcome party patriotism and work out how to construct majorities in the new era , for traditional parties of the right , also , can manage only about a 40 per cent turnout , if that . |
| 26 | ‘ was not clean and in good working order ’ The defect must be described in detail to prove this point , e.g. ‘ Both bulbs were blown in the front obligatory lights and two white lights were not being shown to the front ’ or ‘ The rear nearside reflector was broken and part of it was missing , leaving only about a square centimetre of reflective material ’ etc . |
| 27 | He disapproves of the whole superstar DJ scene , however : ‘ At the end of the day it 's only about a bit of plastic — people should n't wet their knickers about it . |
| 28 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 29 | They have obvious advantages over ordinary questionnaires and ‘ checklists ’ : with these one can in practice ask only about a limited number of activities which must be precisely specified in advance . |
| 30 | And that 'll be , I 've got about a ream of , well it 's only about a ream paper . |