Example sentences of "[verb] about [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in effect led to a situation where the commercial energy input became about equal to the equivalent energy output of edible grains . |
| 2 | By 1913 the United States was producing about one-third of the total manufacturing output of the whole world : this was as much as Great Britain , France and Germany together . |
| 3 | Sectarianism and intimidation in the workplace have not been taken into account either , when we asked about this at the same meeting we were told you had to prove you were being intimidated . |
| 4 | If we believe that integrity is a third and independent ideal , at least when people disagree about one of the first two , then we may well think that fairness or justice must sometimes be sacrificed to integrity . |
| 5 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 6 | Drink and football are linked by such a strong umbilical cord in Scottish culture that it is virtually impossible to talk about one without the other encroaching . |
| 7 | This month I 'm writing about another of the smaller accessories for your knitting machine , the rib transfer carriage ( RT1 ) . |
| 8 | A similar conclusion has been made about many of the private research institutes , like the Rand Corporation and the Brookings and Hudson Institutes . |
| 9 | I know you 've thought about this for a long time , ’ he hissed , gripping her shoulders tightly to prevent movement . |
| 10 | Five studies will then follow about each of the five elements : laws , revenues , personnel , organisations and programmes , and a concluding volume about the consequences of big government . |
| 11 | Type 1 diabetes affects about 1 in every 300 children . |
| 12 | And she smiled so nicely at Inchbad and Goibniu that everyone smiled back and thought it would be really very interesting to hear about some of the strange lands and the faraway worlds the Humans had visited from the great Feargach Grian , and also that it was always a shame to eat Humans when they were pretty and young and friendly . |
| 13 | The department 's going to hear about this for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | And we have talked about some of the extra-curricular activities that pretty young girls sometimes get invited to try . |
| 15 | You will recite everything you know about each of the four murders , beginning with Sir Thomas Springall 's . |
| 16 | During the debate , I shall obviously be referring to matters that come within my hon. Friend 's remit , although I shall also be speaking about some of the important issues relating to regional economic and industrial policy which fall within the remit of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | They 've known they 've known about this for a fair while . |
| 18 | A complicated and often-changing irregular system of streets grew up around these main roads in the settlement area ; most is known about those in the southern suburbs , for which the main road from Tiddington formed an axis , parallel to and south of the modern Stratford Road . |
| 19 | That is a question many Regulars ask about each of the 75,000 or so volunteers who make up today 's TA . |
| 20 | The largest group of Soviet nationalities were the Slavs — Russians , Ukrainians and Belorussians — who shared a common linguistic and religious inheritance and together constituted about two-thirds of the total population . |
| 21 | For political reasons British officers continued to hold about one-half of the senior posts . |
| 22 | Controversy grew about some of the bolder experiments in egalitarian education , and it was increasingly alleged that basic education , the ‘ three Rs ’ , was being neglected . |
| 23 | Hence it took about two-thirds of the total period since the origin of life to reach the eukaryote stage . |
| 24 | I thought about this for a long time and slowly I realized that I was not extraordinary in this . |
| 25 | Each nursery went about this in a different way . |
| 26 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 27 | I imagine you 'll want to think about that for a little while . ’ |
| 28 | Schools threatened with closure or with the loss of their sixth forms are among the most likely to seriously consider opting out , and the Grammar School Association expects about one-third of the remaining 150 grammar schools to opt out . |
| 29 | And I said to dad I said , It 's a good job they were n't talking about one of the other staff or anything or about Mark or anything . |
| 30 | Rosa Maria Malet , Director of the Fundación Miró in Barcelona , declared : ‘ We are talking about one of the best collections of Mirós in the world , and even if some periods are not very well represented there are some works of very great importance in the evolution of the painter 's oeuvre ’ . |