Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] about [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is not merely marine deposits that are so incredibly persistent about the earth 's surface . |
| 2 | WHY is everyone so upset about the BBC 's Eldorado ? |
| 3 | A friend asked the executive what he found so absorbing about the man 's performance . |
| 4 | Philip White , president and chief executive officer of Informix is so confident about the company 's financial prospects that he says it will be ‘ raising prices . ’ |
| 5 | While Allen rather relishes the fact that his rhetoric is still considered too dangerous for earthbound TV , he is not quite so happy about the programme 's title . |
| 6 | The Home Secretary — and the Home Office — were greatly concerned about the Commission 's almost unprecedented decision ; but it had to be accepted . |
| 7 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 8 | The White House , in turn , is so jittery about the scandal 's political reverberations that the President 's lawyer is now reviewing all contacts that Burford has had with White House officials in the past . |
| 9 | TREVOR Deaves has been commendably open about the DSS 's kind offer to pay his £1,833 a week mortgage . |
| 10 | The representatives of the UK Atomic Energy Authority who had been summoned to attend the session were zealously optimistic about the reactor 's prospects , but defending the future of the nuclear industry at the beginning of the 1990s was no easy task . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , even though the Pearl analogue may occur to few , the references to absence of ‘ stain' and grief and blemish , the assertion that Lórien is a place apart , have their effect and keep one finally uncertain about the section 's proper mode . |
| 12 | On the other , whatever tactical voting takes place will benefit Labour and the Liberal Democrats , and — as any Tory canvasser will attest — many Tory waverers remain deeply unhappy about the Government 's handling of the economy . |
| 13 | Being deliberately deceitful about the Government 's policies has become something of a habit for the Labour party . |
| 14 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |
| 15 | They are deeply concerned about the scientists ' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature . |
| 16 | Policy makers in Washington and London were sometimes privately more sceptical about the Shah 's intentions , the viability of his economic policies , the growing corruption of his court , his apparently insatiable appetite for arms and even his personality . |
| 17 | Britain , always cool about the Community 's ambitions , might be expected to say told-you-so . |
| 18 | Hill-Wood remains philosphical about the club 's disappointing run — ‘ you have good spells and bad spells ’ — and is certainly more optimistic about the club 's chances of winning major honours this season than he was at a similar stage last year . |
| 19 | American diplomats are more enthusiastic about the commission 's economic plans than the British are . |
| 20 | But Laird 's trade unionists are still bitter about the council 's decision to object to the proposed Point of Ayr gas terminal the development that could offer a lifeline to the yard if it wins approval . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend is also right about the Opposition 's position on Trident . |
| 22 | The DGM felt quite comfortable about this and also tolerant about the trusts ' sometimes misplaced attempts to establish their autonomy : " After escaping from the nest they go around flapping their wings and hissing at people " . |
| 23 | When the time came , she was similarly firm about the boys ' schooling . |
| 24 | The entire party leadership is also clearly worried about the party 's prospects for the forthcoming elections to soviets at both local and republican level . |
| 25 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 26 | Those who favour a tighter regime are just as unhappy about the EC 's approach to date . |
| 27 | There was n't another soul in the whole world who could handle the mistress like her , and , if the truth be told , she had been really concerned about the mistress 's bird-like appetite . |
| 28 | environmental constraints if the organization is big enough to qualify as strategic , and I am really concerned about the planning er application in which I know that Da Professor Lock is interested that I think developments of that scale have nothing to do with the employment needs of the district , that they would in fact involve bringing in large numbers of people from other areas who as I have said before , might appreciate jobs nearer their present places of employment , and it would also unbalance the Harrogate housing market and put on pressure for more land to be taken in and around Harrogate for housing for the people who 'd come to that development . |
| 29 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 30 | Guy Tolson is particularly excited about the Girbauds ' use of a sweatshirt-like fabric for semi-formal trousers . |