Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] about [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comprehensive evaluation of company performance over these broader activities is not available , but the little which is known about individual companies suggests that financial objectives were more important than they might appear on the surface . |
| 2 | The lack of analysis of specific songs in Adorno 's writings means that it is impossible to know whether he is talking about real pieces or , more likely , ideal types . |
| 3 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 4 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
| 5 | In figure 7.6 the capacitances to earth are represented as lumped together from nodes A , B , C and D. Notice that if nothing is done about these capacitances , they act in pairs across the arms of the bridge ; for example , the reactance of C A in series with that of C B is in parallel with the impedance Z 1 . |
| 6 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 7 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 8 | It also acknowledges its debt in what is said about electronic instruments to Repair or Replace ? |
| 9 | But what is striking about these debates is the shared assumption that the area was a ‘ good thing ’ for Britain . |
| 10 | It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia . |
| 11 | But what is known about these genes , based mainly on biochemical evidence , is that their catalytic protein products are likely to play critical roles in the transducing pathways that stimulate cells to grow and adopt specific phenotypes of functional importance . |