Example sentences of "[vb -s] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know what the Church thinks about marriage and divorce . |
| 2 | Yet I doubt they have meat more than once a week — and I doubt he thinks about money from one year 's end to the other . ’ |
| 3 | He thinks about football rigorously , and stresses how much more difficult it is to play against an Italian attack . |
| 4 | JOHN MAY , Cornwall 's answer to Jeff Probyn , often thinks about retirement . |
| 5 | After every fight , he says , he thinks about retirement and he intends to give it more consideration that usual in the New Year , vowing that when he quits he 'll do so as world champion . |
| 6 | In order to find out more of what this writer thinks about imitation , we are in a position to consult a work by him where a treatise on the subject is developed at intervals and where he writes in propria persona . |
| 7 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 8 | I do n't know what she thinks about television , but she seems to enjoy the music on the car radio whenever we 're going to lectures . |
| 9 | Everyone understands about money . |
| 10 | But what of the complainant who consciously fantasises about rape ? |
| 11 | Ignoring the fact that it does n't seem to have much harm to British Telecommunications Plc or to the UK , France 's Minister for Posts & Telecommunications , Emile Zuccarelli , says that privatising France Telecom would hurt the company , its users and the entire nation : he particularly worries about service in sparsely-populated areas , a problem that appears to have been satisfactorily solved by regulation in the UK market ; privatisation of France Telecom is anyway not on the agenda of Valery Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 12 | I believe G.P. — I do n't have to believe him when he says it , I can see it 's true — he hardly worries about money at all . |
| 13 | The 13-year-old , for instance , is likely to arouse nothing but a smile if he or she worries about acne and its effect on boy-girl relationships ; but alarm may be inspired if he complains of impotence or if she falls in love with a man twice her age . |
| 14 | Further development of the programme and of the role of the Community Mother is possible , though within the present structures there is a danger that it could become a mere extension of the health services , with the Community Mother as a low-waged employee , losing voluntary status , altering motivation and reducing their effectiveness as change agents , becoming as Gill Walt concludes about Community Health Workers in many countries , ‘ just another pair of hands ’ rather than the change agents they were claimed to be . |
| 15 | Kintsch and Vipond ( 1979 ) have discussed some of these changes in popularity , and have offered an interesting explanation for the question they ask ( and answer ) themselves : " Who cares about readability ? |
| 16 | White hair is sign of great age , a sign that one no longer really cares about appearance . |
| 17 | I do n't think their audience cares about pop success , they do n't buy stuff because it is in the charts . |
| 18 | Who cares about compatibility , if they 're just |
| 19 | The rational person cares about truth and is disposed to seek it . |
| 20 | This year 's is the biggest-ever and we 're asking everyone who cares about wildlife to sponsor the cyclists or make a donation . ’ |
| 21 | She always turns the conversation away when Aunt Minnie starts about marriage and me being an old maid . ’ |
| 22 | He is often confused with another Duncan Campbell who writes about state secrecy and whose Inland Revenue demands he sometimes receives . |
| 23 | It is very much a ‘ real ’ novel ie Dickens writes about society at his time and reflects and comments on it . |
| 24 | She writes about adolescence among Samoan boys , but we know from examining her field notes , she never inter interviewed one Samoan boy . |
| 25 | My bank also writes about maintenance payments . |
| 26 | Since almost everyone who writes about computing does not usually bother to make all these distinctions , I shall too . |
| 27 | Endo is a leading Japanese novelist who is sometimes compared with Graham Greene , but he writes about religion with a greater intellectual rigour than Greene , in a style both terse and elegant . |
| 28 | So a historian who writes about ethnicity or nationalism can not but make a politically or ideologically explosive intervention . |
| 29 | Now , I 'm no ‘ Greenie ’ but Recycling is something I feel quite strongly about , and here I hope to give some pros and cons about Recycling , and also give some information about the actual processes . |
| 30 | Not only are the films expected to increase awareness of Harlequin books , but they could open up another business : Harlequin 's heart throbs about video . |