Example sentences of "about [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 2 | You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable , if you like , they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman , I was with him for twelve weeks . |
| 3 | Cos he , he 's , he 's only stood about for first hour anyway . |
| 4 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 5 | I was chronically frustrated by the city 's killing of time : all those coffees and slow pints , all that hanging about for other people . |
| 6 | There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now . |
| 7 | But the point is what I 'm saying is if we could get that stuff there on Friday afternoon and get the the conveyor set to where you want 'em , because I do n't know what leads you want the lorry got there on Monday morning , wants unloading , and we 're flying about for damn leads , we we 're gon na be in trouble . |
| 8 | During the garotting panic of 1862 , however , there was no such luck and it was therefore necessary to scramble about for alien pejoratives in order to disown this home-brewed violence . |
| 9 | We were hanging about for 19 hours altogether . ’ |
| 10 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 11 | And this gentleman in West Yorkshire would certainly have the blessing of many if he carried out his idea : ‘ Having taken early retirement , I am casting about for some way to supplement my pension . |
| 12 | She stood with it in her hand , looking about for some signs of a waiting servant . |
| 13 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 14 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 15 | Sources in the US say Data General will this week take the wrapping off the eight-way AViiON multi-processors it has been dropping hints about for some time ( UX No 389 ) . |
| 16 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 17 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 18 | I found myself looking about for steaming strangers . |
| 19 | But he admitted finding Minton 's facility suspect and thought ‘ the restlessness with which he is still casting about for fresh novelties of manner suggests a certain instability . ’ |
| 20 | Standardization comes about for functional reasons , and its effect is to make a language serviceable for communicating decontextualized information-bearing messages over long distances and periods of time . |
| 21 | As she was poking about for more loot I glanced back at Granny and saw that the sheet had moved again . |
| 22 | Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers . |
| 23 | The choice between these two coevolutions does n't come about through advance planning . |
| 24 | The increase may have come about through various kinds of gene duplication . |
| 25 | But this seems also to be the stance of anomie theory : the anomic individuals are clearly pushed and constrained yet , within those constraints , they manage to invent rational solutions ( in the sense that these solutions come about through internal reasoning processes , rather than as an autonomic response ) . |
| 26 | Crimes thus come about through human beings interpreting and applying rules ( which are themselves the product of human deliberation ) to the actions of others . |
| 27 | In most cases , nocturnal singing , such as your whitethroat indulged in , also comes about through human interference . |
| 28 | The researchers concluded from these two studies that parenting problems were brought about through long-standing problems in social relationships . |
| 29 | At the same congress Khrushchev profoundly modified Lenin 's tenet that world revolution would come about through inevitable war with the capitalist powers . |
| 30 | It is a linking of the intangible with the tangible , which can only come about through conscious intention . |