Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a note of caution should perhaps be added about the conventional wisdom that falling membership automatically leads to a decrease in trade union influence . |
| 2 | Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings . |
| 3 | These days much is known about the socio-economic composition of the population thanks largely to the national census . |
| 4 | The survey , carried out by Dr Helen McEwan and Dr Mary Campbell-Brown of Glasgow Royal Infirmary , reported that many women fear not enough is known about the long-term consequences . |
| 5 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 6 | They pointed out that nearly all the studies have focused upon young men and that far less was known about the sub-cultural activities and work careers of young women . |
| 7 | So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’ |
| 8 | The 1984 village case study revealed that the Bangladeshi mothers ( some of whom had already been taught about the lobon-gur solution ) recognised four different types of diarrhoea and generally thought only one of these types to be an indication for the use of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 9 | So you could not just be talking about the first premium . |
| 10 | He remains synonymous with Manchester United which is more than will ever be said about the principal figures in that disturbing saga of boardroom intrigue which has been occupying our attention this season . |
| 11 | The point is that there could be such a command and at the level of that command where , as it were , the answer would be received , no information would ever be received about the other senses of ‘ bar ’ that the system as a whole might happen to know about in its dictionary , and the procedures for surveying that range of senses would never be revealed . |
| 12 | It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety . |
| 13 | A wide range of comments have also been made about the simplistic nature of the grids as specifiers of where investment should be placed . |
| 14 | Concern is also being expressed about the proposed construction of a large dam at the north of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River . |
| 15 | To counter-balance any shortcomings on the domestic front claims have frequently been made about the major contribution which financial services rendered to the economy through invisible exports . |
| 16 | That was an ill-advised planning decision by the city council , and questions could well be asked about the considerable waste of public money involved in building the new houses in Goodwood road . |
| 17 | These problems , coupled with the lack of interest amongst palaeoecologists in extreme northern and western areas until quite recently ( Birks , 1988 ) , result in comparatively little being known about the detailed floristic and vegetational history of these ecologically unique islands . |
| 18 | It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war . |
| 19 | However , they too were disturbed about the physical efficiency of the population and proposed that motherhood should be specially encouraged among the middle and upper classes in which the birth rate was declining . |