Example sentences of "[verb] about [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole system of things and people which surrounds us coerces us to be conformist ; even if you want to be a social rebel you will still have to go about things in a conventional way if you are to gain recognition and not be rated as insane . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works . |
| 3 | For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all . |
| 4 | While the CPSU dominated Soviet politics it did not have to worry about majorities in the Supreme Soviet . |
| 5 | What the hon. Gentleman says about members of the Territorial Army being refused their bounty is news to me , so I should be grateful if he would write to me . |
| 6 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 7 | People can relatively easily be stimulated to talk about things in a particular way . |
| 8 | And yes , we can teach them about partnership , Councillor and I think it 's hypocrisy for the Tories to talk about links with the private sector . |
| 9 | It was so useful to talk about careers in a practical setting . ’ |
| 10 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 11 | The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis . |
| 12 | UNIVERSITIES that build science parks and — innovation centres ’ as a way of establishing links with business could be going about things in the wrong way , according to a new report . |
| 13 | Spurious preachers began to declare that the peasants were going about matters in a foolish way by sacrificing crippled infants . |
| 14 | The word ‘ object ’ amuses me because no-one talked about objects in the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | But we actually talked about things at an appropriate level . |
| 16 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 17 | Oh , yes , ’ he added when Robyn looked up at him in surprise , ‘ I did a little research on you before inviting you to tender for this job — I at least go about things in a methodical and planned way . |
| 18 | Go about things in the right way and you wo n't have the same worries again . |
| 19 | But some Thais are wondering whether they have gone about things in the right way . |
| 20 | People tend to think about languages as a single entity , rather than identifying their own priorities within the four elements : speaking , reading , writing and listening . |
| 21 | It 's difficult to think about things for the first time in the heat of the moment , so plan it out now . |
| 22 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 23 | Firstly , many crimes do not have victims , and only the offender(s) will know that a crime has been committed — for example , illegal drug use and supply , soliciting by prostitutes or illegal abortion ( here we are talking about victims in the conventional sense of a separate and visible victim , although it could be argued that the user of illegal drugs is a victim him or herself , or that the unborn foetus is a victim in the case of illegal abortion ) . |
| 24 | People did acid trips to start thinking about things in a different way : they underwent a set of experiences that question fundamental structures about the nature of reality and the nature of personality . ’ |
| 25 | But instead of setting about matters in a straightforward way and asking Marko if he would sell him the ram , or let him have it as a gift-which Marko might well have done , for he was a good-natured young man-the king asked the advice of his prime minister Milosu , who was Marko 's uncle . |
| 26 | A speechreader was chatting about roses to a keen gardener . |
| 27 | We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them . |
| 28 | Finally , they are said to have disagreed about technicalities in the baptismal service . |
| 29 | I do not suppose that the ultimate mental component of the universe is some spooky , all-embracing mind that is more real than flesh-and-blood people , nor that we should treat the state or community as a real person with a distinct interest or point of view or even welfare of its own , nor that we can ask the range of questions about a state 's principles — for example whether it accepted them freely or was misled or misunderstands them — that we can ask about aspects of a real person 's moral life . |
| 30 | So that 's how things stood in those year in the the days before nineteen sixty nine and I in fact did learn about removals in the late sixties . |