Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] about the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the funiculars they 're quibbling about the final payment . |
| 2 | catalogue with Yeah , those three games are making they 're making games they 're saying about the twelve-hundred Renegade |
| 3 | I do n't therefore understand what you 're saying about the single star . |
| 4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 5 | They 're , when you 're talking about the normal household gloss , yes it is flammable but it 's not a , nowhere near as flammable as your cellulose thinners that you spray your car with and things like that , your touch up sprays , because it does n't contain the amount of petroleum adhesive er additive I should say , in the er in its mixture as does er |
| 6 | Well , if you 're talking about the smallest sort of business , and you 've spent maybe two thousand pounds on your actual computer , complete with a printer and the floppy discs I 've been talking about , then you might expect to spend another five hundred to a thousand pounds on a basic set of software . |
| 7 | We 're talking about the financial speaker and the way they and I I 'm afraid I sh we sha n't have time to go back and er tell you what I 'm saying but er I hope you can pick it up . |
| 8 | ‘ But it 's not Kinnock ; it 's Mr Gorbachev ; the world has come on to our ground and I find that a source of strength , because at least we know that we 're talking about the capitalist system . ’ |
| 9 | So we 're talking about the sixty acre sixty hectares that are allocated for the rest of the Harrogate district and er I should like formal confirmation from Mr Allenby privately already that there is no question of any part of the York , Greater York area allocation being transferred into the rest of the district should it fall through for any purpose . |
| 10 | Cos now of course we 're talking about the whole cosmos , the everything that there is , the all , the whole erm and then , you 're right , he does talk about erm erm body at one er extraordinary point he talks about body , the relation of body and soul being that of a er fishing net er floating through the ocean and erm the ocean is soul and this fishing net is er body floating erm through it . |
| 11 | If we 're talking about the same phone call , the reason it was a woman who spoke to you was that we were both travelling in my car at the time — and I was driving . |
| 12 | Another valve might help ; after all , the Marshall has a couple and the Carvin is mob-handed with a total of nine — and I 'll say it again , we 're talking about the same price range here . |
| 13 | I 'd just like to say that only Conservatives could actually put need in one paragraph and slip straight into financial in the next and I assume they 're talking about the same thing . |
| 14 | ‘ So we 're talking about the next century . ’ |
| 15 | well , we we 're talking about the choral society , and saying well , sometimes they 're a bit inappropriate in what they choose to do , like movements from Christmas oratorios with only organ accompaniment , whereas in There 's some |
| 16 | We 're talking about the multi-faceted Bleach here The band who , on their current tour , want to collect good food recipes to make up a nosh fanzine . |
| 17 | and you 're talking about the clear stuff going to all |
| 18 | Erm you 're just looking at a little bit that 's new and you 're forgetting about the old stuff . |
| 19 | There are also new dangers and dilemmas when too facile conclusions are drawn about the generic nature of management . |
| 20 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |
| 21 | well you had the advantage of inside information , I 'm talking about the ordinary punter , if you forgive the expression , the ordinary customer you realize do n't you that there 's no clue in that sentence that management charges is limited to a small element of the six pounds thirty five |
| 22 | I 'm talking about the other couple . |
| 23 | When I say ‘ armed ’ , I 'm talking about the usual street weapons : knives , machetes , razors , chains , bottles and sticks — not guns . |
| 24 | I 'm talking about the true dragon , draconis nobilis , you understand ; the swamp dragon , draconis vulgaris , is a base creature and not worth our consideration . |
| 25 | In particular , I 'm thinking about the fine filming which accompanies the song There 's A Coach Comin' In , as the carriage packed full of prostitutes speeds towards town . |
| 26 | When looking at how to develop and improve the management of its electronic information resources , a local authority needs to ensure that the same questions are asked about the electronic environment as are asked about the traditional ubiquitous paper record . |
| 27 | Can I come back Mr Donson , or will that , and I take it , alright , I understand the point you are making about the long term solution and size , but if the panel were to be persuaded that to be a viable solution the settlement had , in the end , and I 'm not going to define where the end is , almost certainly beyond two thousand and six , that the settlement would need to be of the order of five thousand dwellings . |
| 28 | We have , in short , to keep our feet on the ground , to get our facts right , and to remember that we are talking about the real world . |
| 29 | It means , by contrast , that when we talk of the technological imperative and resource allocation , we must realize that we are talking about the political process , and understand what this involves . |
| 30 | The hut was situated in a cutting on the track-bed of the old East Lincolnshire line that ran between Grimsby and Peterborough via Boston ; we are talking about the southern section of this once busy line . |