Example sentences of "[vb -s] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland . |
| 2 | The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways . |
| 3 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 4 | Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 . |
| 5 | When one thinks about that , it becomes apparent how complex the matter is . |
| 6 | Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ? |
| 7 | ‘ Let's find out what Billy thinks about this , ’ Peter says . |
| 8 | She can not believe that what she thinks about this and that has any value , because she has thought it . |
| 9 | Whatever one thinks about this draft — and most lawyers who have studied it reckon it to be reasonably good , though it grants the president extensive powers that could be abused — the real issue has been how to get it adopted as Russia 's new constitution . |
| 10 | Whatever one thinks about this , it is certainly important that teachers and media producers should understand the various movements which have swept the library profession over recent decades and which see the librarian as educator rather than curator . |
| 11 | ( Thinks about this . ) |
| 12 | As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance . |
| 13 | That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’ |
| 14 | It offers about one hour 's straight playing time per side . |
| 15 | This uninspiring performance is despite the fact that West Germany supplies about one-third of gas demand from indigenous reserves . |
| 16 | The Western world annually produces about one billion tonnes of industrial waste . |
| 17 | On a clear day on the equator , at noon , each square metre of the Earth 's surface receives about one kilowatt ( kW ) of solar energy ; that is , one hundred kilocalories ( kcal ) per hour . |
| 18 | This fungus , Pilobolus , is commonly found growing on the surface of bovine faecal pats about one week after these have been deposited . |
| 19 | Manfred Kerstan is a typically affluent ARC participant ; Albatros is a Swan 61 and the entry fee constitutes about one hundredth of her value . |
| 20 | This decline was due to both the sale of council dwellings and to fewer starts , which — at perhaps 20,000 or so in the mid-1980s — represents about one-fifth the early 1970s total . |
| 21 | What appears to work within the carefully structured world of the article seems to have a dubiously partial relation to what it represents about Balinese life as a whole . |
| 22 | Every day your body needs about 1 ½ litres of water to function normally . |
| 23 | Now that looks a very simple sort of thing , it 's quite large , a man stands about that high . |
| 24 | Erm I would hesitate before offering the chairman or the committee the contract , er the contract for Eurofighter actually runs to thirty four books and it stands about that high and er . |
| 25 | There 's a wall stands about this high and he 's do he does his duty on top of the wall . |
| 26 | It has 10% of world proven oil reserves , second only to Saudi Arabia , and in terms of probable oil resources holds about one-seventh of the world 's potential . |
| 27 | With a workforce of 160 , Boursin holds about one third of the French speciality cheese market in France and exports to the UK , Benelux , Switzerland and Germany . |
| 28 | Nowadays in Hungary , when the dismantling of red stars — from public buildings , from railway engines , and perhaps even from the gravestones of party members — has become a minor industry , nobody worries about ominous knocks on the door . |
| 29 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 30 | Pessimism is her distinguishing trait : she worries about many aspects of her work . |