Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] about [adj] [noun] " 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 | If this were so , it would be as meaningless to make general statements about what a mouse or a cock or a cobra feels as it is to generalise about human behaviour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | He is talking about social ecology on Tuesday 12 May at Lady Mitchell Hall , Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge ; on 14 May at Bristol University Students ' Union in Queens Road ; on Monday 18 May at the Beckett Lecture Theatre of Leeds University in Woodhouse Lane ; and on Thursday 21 May at St James ' Church , Piccadilly , in London . |
| 6 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
| 7 | Again the question of just what is disorganized about disorganized capitalism surfaces for our consideration . |
| 8 | Without recognising that knowledge of this kind is in play , we may misinterpret what is said about particular texts . |
| 9 | It also acknowledges its debt in what is said about electronic instruments to Repair or Replace ? |
| 10 | What is striking about natural history illustrations is sometimes their longevity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most of what is known about acute aluminium poisoning comes from studying patients treated for kidney failure by dialysis . |
| 14 | Most of what is known about social development is based on the study of encounters between a child and one other person , yet much of a child 's life takes place in groups of more than two persons — within the family , the neighbourhood peer groups , the pre-school group , and so on . |