Example sentences of "[vb base] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what I hate about politics , it 's just . |
| 2 | There may be apprehension about being in hospital and the surgery itself and sometimes fear about prognosis and/or dying . |
| 3 | ‘ I now see the meaning of that old Guards ’ proverb about comfort . ’ |
| 4 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 5 | But psychoanalysis 's limited address to social relations makes it unable to deal with all the questions western feminists raise about gender and subjectivity . |
| 6 | Is that what you mean about choice ? |
| 7 | See what I mean about metal being unparodiable ? |
| 8 | Do you see what I mean about shame ? ’ |
| 9 | The anthropologist 's social structure must be pieced together from a muddling mass of statements that Indians make about kinship connections , group names , ancestral derivations , linguistic affiliations , geographical sites , and so on … |
| 10 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 11 | Waqar , who has just signed a new three-year contract with Surrey , said : ‘ I do n't care what people say about ball-tampering either . ’ |
| 12 | Given the kind of society that we have at the moment , I think so , because in the home — I mean aside from being defined as a housewife — you 're really defined only in relation to other people , so what you say about self definition , erm self fulfilment , is absolutely crucial . |
| 13 | moral insight and belief , terms which cover all the things people think and say about morality , including their willingness to blame others who do wrong . |
| 14 | say about badge 's |
| 15 | As American hot-rodders say about engine capacity : ‘ There ai n't no substitute for cubes ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It must be true after all , what they say about Viking lovers ! ’ |
| 17 | The problem with their evolutionary sequence does not lie so much with what they say about technology as what they saw this technology as implying . |
| 18 | In view , however , of what he said about student support , compared with what the citizens advice bureaux say about student support — the citizens advice bureaux deal with real students suffering real hardship in the real world , while the Prime Minister hides himself away behind locked gates in 10 |
| 19 | This is what they say about housing : ’ Authorities also own and manage 4 million houses nationally . ’ |
| 20 | you say about Neighbourhood Watch contact |
| 21 | Bluster about morning hate and advice to go back to Adolph got a maddeningly cool reply . |
| 22 | It is this : that collective force should be trained against individuals only when some past political decision has licensed this explicit in such a way that competent lawyers and judges will all agree about what that decision was , no matter how much they disagree about morality and politics . |
| 23 | The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident . |
| 24 | Success is when you relax in an armchair on Friday evening , have a drink with your partner and forget about work for the weekend . |
| 25 | At 5 o'clock forget about work and give some in-depth thought to what 's happening at home . |
| 26 | Resistors are like pipes , if you work with a resistance it 's always one over so forget about resistance , deal with conductance . |
| 27 | Forget about DOS 's weedy eight/three character limit , you can give a file a meaningful description , up to 68 characters long . |
| 28 | Forget about profit and loss . ) |
| 29 | Forget about instep crampons or ones without forward facing points , which are only of interest to walkers . |
| 30 | Forget about immigration . |