Example sentences of "about be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Afshan Begum explains in her thesis ‘ In many cases parents expect that the girl will , whenever they demand , give up everything ( e.g. a course in further education or training or a career ) and submit without question to a marriage they have arranged for her … these hidden cases which no one gets to hear about are the real tragedies . ’ |
| 2 | Could it be that the only people they really care about are the ones who can afford big cars and foreign holidays ? |
| 3 | What I am talking about are the contexts in which people have sexual relationships . |
| 4 | ‘ The experts I 'm talking about are the ex-members of various secret services and police forces . |
| 5 | As Nayacakalou ( 1961 , p. 125 ) has said , ‘ the people in a village can not be bothered with neat pigeonholes — what they are concerned about are the exigencies of their daily lives ’ . |
| 6 | The main points to think — about are the positioning of the boiler and hot water cylinder , the sizes and running of pipes , the types to be used and the avoidance of airlocks . |
| 7 | What investigators worried about were the effects on the pre-adult of films depicting ‘ an exciting robbery , an ecstatic love-scene , the behaviour of a drunkard , and the like ’ . |
| 8 | The low security inmates they 're talking about were the same type of inmates who were at Wymott prison and caused 36 million pounds of damage . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's nothing special about being a heavyweight or having an Olympic gold medal in the United States . |
| 10 | The thing about being a neighbourhood policeman is the way you police your beat . |
| 11 | Punch 's newspaper has to think about being a little less boring . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , do n't start all that guff about being a person again . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The worst thing about being a star is the loss of your private life and all the travel . |
| 14 | In later life he was fond of Tom Stoppard 's remark about being a bounced Czech . |
| 15 | There 's something so special about being a dancer . |
| 16 | Irena took an unofficial day off work and we wandered through the damp streets while she told me about being a student at Palacky University in 1968 ( and what happened afterwards : ‘ It is strange how the history books of a country can change , is n't it ? ’ ) . |
| 17 | We did n't seem to worry too much about being a couple of strokes off the lead . |
| 18 | If anyone writes in to say that Francis Bacon noticed the flashes when he got out of his coach to freeze a chicken in the snow , I shall leave the country , suitably disguised , and write piteous letters about being a laughing stock to all , coupled with the name of sundry . |
| 19 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 20 | The first time I read about a sex change something happened deep inside me : all my vague feelings about being a girl found a focus even though all the stories were about men who became ’ . |
| 21 | Consequently , I decided I would be an androgynous sort of person and I found old esoteric idea about being a whole person in the alchemical or shamanic sense , a female-male composite , increasingly attractive . |
| 22 | Older children may look after new additions to the family and learn about being a parent by doing so . |
| 23 | We suggest , however , that the tiredness experienced by young couples in the first months of a baby 's life is not just the result of broken nights , change of role , anxiety as to the well-being of so small and vulnerable a being , and doubts about being a good enough parent , but is also related to the strain of exercising a defence against envy of the baby to whom so much care and comfort is offered . |
| 24 | Your wife says you have a lot to learn about being a parent , but it is she who has a lot to learn . |
| 25 | ‘ In the early days , of course , I would keep it secret , because it was ‘ my sound ’ and so I would n't do anything for anyone else — it 's that whole trip about being a guitar player ! |
| 26 | ‘ Like Ian Page ( lead singer of Secret Affair ) will go on about being a mod is being an individual . |
| 27 | It has allowed her to use what she says most pleases her about being a novelist : ‘ the capacity to tell other stories , fight secret wars ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ One minute you disown the servant class , the next you 're worrying about being a minute late for your duties ! |
| 29 | But I do n't worry about being a loser and I 'll tell you why . |
| 30 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |