Example sentences of "be [to-vb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | One obvious thing to do would have been to write about the facilities available to homeless people ( or the chronic lack of them in key areas like medical help ) ; however , I have decided against doing that . |
| 2 | But if we are to talk about pedagogy , individual effort must be referred to more general ideas , otherwise there is no way for experience to be communicated , no way in which others can derive benefit from the particular successes of the individual . |
| 3 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 4 | And , if Holly 's too boring for that , perhaps the best approach would be to write about his impact on others . |
| 5 | Yet I am bound to start with it , if I 'm to talk about the story of Jackson Pollock and his wife , the painter Lee Krasner . |
| 6 | This may be to talk about your conversion : ‘ I used to feel similarly , but had an experience which changed my life … . ’ |
| 7 | The second option will be to forget about the skills revolution for a while and concentrate on helping the unemployed . |
| 8 | It would be as foolish to argue about which of these views is correct as it would be to argue about whether algebra or geometry is the correct way to solve problems in science . |
| 9 | ‘ But , strange as it may be to say about someone who was younger , I learnt a great deal from him . ’ |
| 10 | Third , there would frequently be discrepancies between the meanings of sentences with a predicate qualifier and " fuller versions " when it is replaced by a clause ; for example , consider : ( 31 ) the jury found Ernest guilty the jury found Ernest ; Ernest was guilty ( 32 ) Alastair likes his beef tea strong Alastair likes his beef tea ; his beef tea is strong In the latter case , for instance , there may not be any strong beef tea at all ; the point of uttering the sentence may be to complain about that very point . |
| 11 | - If it is difficult to generalize about the style of an author , how much more difficult may it be to generalize about the style of a genre or an epoch . |
| 12 | The fewer people there are to argue about which channel to watch , the better , I should think . ’ |
| 13 | One of my excitements has been to learn about prayer and discipleship from Christians of other traditions . |
| 14 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 15 | I suppose if one were to wonder about schizophrenia or playing the part too much , it 's like an actor who does a film and the film is very successful and he plays Gatsby in the film , and then they never stop wearing 30 's tennis whites . |
| 16 | The Jones did ask what they were to do about the other problems . |
| 17 | Good intentions , of course , are said to pave the way to hell , but one must , like Edward Teller , be optimistic , so I turned to it ( 9 February ) to watch the rubbing together of two creative intellects , those of John Berger and Susan Sontag who were to discuss/argue/disagree about storytelling . |
| 18 | And if adults were to learn about child development by observing free play , there must also be free communication . |
| 19 | Now one of the things that you tend to find is that if you were to ask about groups then people regurgitate all the stuff about groups but with most questions you can usually see links to other parts of the syllabus . |
| 20 | What sustains me in the search for a response to Gettier is the feeling that it may be possible to find an account of what knowledge is which will have a substantial effect on what we are to say about justification in later parts of this book . |
| 21 | Well er as I say , I 've always been a union member but then when I was self-employed it was different and I kept me fees up for a , to somewhere I do n't know what it was , but er when er yes , when er I was coming to come on me own and I went down the locksmith 's to see about it and they said er , what did they say now , they said you could n't do that , whatever it was , and er we 'll have to do this and that and the other . |
| 22 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 23 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She wants to know all there is to know about Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 26 | ‘ I lived in Los Angeles , so I know all there is to know about diets . |
| 27 | Pam and Malc , being my soul-mates , know everything there is to know about me . |
| 28 | In other words , the investigating authorities should know everything there is to know about such a family , both from inside that family , and from contacts outside . |
| 29 | In my opinion , this is all there is to know about frogs . |
| 30 | Braithwaite ( 1979b : 130 ) believes that , ‘ government lawyers , who must in many ways be all-rounders , can not compete with the corporation lawyer who spends his whole life finding out all there is to know about a narrowly delimited area of ‘ legal loop-holes ’ ' . |