Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore warnings should be sounded about the uncritical interpretation of data indicating supposed ‘ decline ’ . |
| 2 | ( v ) Pupils should be taught about the different functions of written language : that writing can be for the writer alone ; it can be addressed to a known reader ; or it can be written for a large and unknown audience . |
| 3 | An ode should be written about the innumerable helpers , seen and unseen , but I have decided to highlight the debt we owe to the teaching profession . |
| 4 | McCall 's injury has returned because of the insufficient recovery time between matches and the Rangers ' secretary/director , Campbell Ogilvie , is now investigating the matter of what should be done about the free Saturday that has been left in the programme before Scotland 's next World Cup qualifying tie , against Portugal on 28 April . |
| 5 | FINANCIER George Soros 's £35 million donation to Bosnian aid agencies was generous but surely something should be done about the crazy money markets that allowed him to make so much money so quickly . |
| 6 | They believed that for once the truth should be told about the difficult life Diana has led and , for the most part , still leads . |
| 7 | Maybe a health warning should be added about the little dictators masquerading as Christians . |
| 8 | First , however , something must be said about the existing patterns and trends of the curriculum in higher education . |
| 9 | And in any case , the buying department of the potential customer must be informed about the basic mechanics of how to deal with the supplier . |
| 10 | No-one supposed we might be talking about the possible next leader of ‘ The Free World ’ . |
| 11 | Today we 'll be talking about the big budget decision of yesterday , when the Oxfordshire County Council met to agree on a budget that will affect all of us here , especially people in the education services and the social services . |
| 12 | We 'll be talking about the important practical details you have to grapple with when making your selection , but the first and last point is always the overall view of the project and objectives . |
| 13 | Today we 'll be talking about the Social Services Department of Oxfordshire County Council , and I 'm joined by the Director of Social Services , that 's Ian White . |
| 14 | Questions could be asked about the so-called Maidenhead factor , which relates to the apparently higher level of affluence of the population that is likely to be affected by a flood than elsewhere in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | Similar comments could be made about the national Sunday press . |
| 16 | Similar remarks could be made about the abstract ballets by Balanchine , MacMillan and others . |
| 17 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 18 | She said a real man is someone who knows what he 's about , who knows himself and can be relaxed about himself , and I think the same could be said about the ideal guest . |
| 19 | A vast amount of information could be collected about the instinctive and emotional development of the normal child and its relation to his intellectual growth and interests ’ . |
| 20 | Since a whole book could be written about the professional work of each of these innovators , there is a danger that in the process of selection I shall distort or over-simplify . |
| 21 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 22 | Much the same point may be made about the representative assemblies of advanced capitalism . |
| 23 | The same point may be made about the revolutionary intelligentsia in general . |
| 24 | Precisely the same comments may be made about the pertinent books in the Victoria County History series . |
| 25 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
| 26 | Today in our series on education we shall be talking about the handicapped . |
| 27 | During the first few weeks in a Home everyone concerned with the resident , and of course the resident too , will be thinking about the best care for the person . |
| 28 | CLEVELAND 'S Transport 2,000 group will be told about the new Middlesbrough to Liverpool through train services by Richard Hast , marketing manager for Regional Railways , at its meeting tomorrow . |
| 29 | There 's little that can be done about the former ( it 's a consequence of Improv 's structure ) but the latter will be addressed in a future release . |
| 30 | Please would you investigate and see what can be done about the above . |