Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think it is possible to disagree about the high probability that a relationship exists , and that indeed children with higher levels of lead in the blood tend to be less intelligent ( and possibly more hyperactive ) than children with lower blood lead levels , although the differences are quite small , amounting to some 3 or 4 points of IQ . |
| 2 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend is right to talk about the industrial capacity being too low to produce the recovery we need . |
| 4 | Robinson wo n't comment on House of Windsor , but he 's delighted to talk about the forthcoming £15m sponsorship of Coronation Street . |
| 5 | Big Boo , however , goes back further than most , and he 's happy to reminisce about the old days . |
| 6 | It is difficult to know about the social morality of the peasantry in the early part of the Tokugawa period , but what is clear is that by the 1850s a relatively homogeneous set of social norms prevailed throughout the peasant class , and that their value system was strongly influenced by the agrarian experience . |
| 7 | In order to understand how infection is spread , it is necessary to know about the various modes of transmission . |