Example sentences of "about [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of thing you read about for a cheap thrill in the advice column of a woman 's magazine — it really happens , it happens to you . |
| 2 | In a cold fury he stood and sat about for a long time within , twice changing from chair to chair . |
| 3 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 4 | Was this something recent or something you have known about for a long time ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Hangs about for a long time , that smell . ’ |
| 6 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 7 | She checked about for a likely place of shelter . |
| 8 | He was strong , crawled about for a short while and walked quite strongly at ten months . |
| 9 | In some areas ( such as psychology ) , the figures bobble about for no apparent reason . |
| 10 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 11 | The report is fair in stating its case in favour of such regulations , without concealing the disadvantages which these new rules would undoubtedly bring about for the Swiss art market . |
| 12 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 13 | Joan had taken a great liking to Alianor Woodville who , during the past restless weeks , had regaled her with colourful tales of the court in earlier days when Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth had played turn-and- turn about for the English crown . |
| 14 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 15 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 16 | The village is fascinating ; the sort of place the press have been raving about for the past four years when they talk about ‘ unspoilt Turkey ’ . |
| 17 | Occasionally one would disappear in the direction of the High Street , casting about for an interesting sniff , hoping perhaps to discover a fox in the vicinity of the cut-price chemist . |
| 18 | And it 's definitely a hands-on session — toddlers are free to leap about during the hour-long class . |
| 19 | Divisional crime prevention officer David Chaplin said : ‘ The dawn patrol grew out of the realisation that by the nature of doorstep delivery , milkmen are out and about during the early hours of the morning . ’ |
| 20 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 21 | The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes . |
| 22 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |
| 23 | The agreement came about through a delicate set of potentially dangerous encounters between the Irish party and the Roman catholic bishops during the first two decades of the present century . |
| 24 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 25 | But the final juxtaposition , and the final breakthrough to illumination and an absolute religious certainty , comes about through a direct confrontation between the savage and the city , which proved shocking to the original audiences and retains some of its power to shock today . |
| 26 | Sherardising is another form of zinc coating , but this is brought about through a diffusing process . |
| 27 | So a big change in the way that we are arranged has actually come about through the general management structure , and we 're hoping that this will give us more room , if you like to start looking at priorities , and to move the budget around in accordance with our feelings about those priorities . |
| 28 | The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) . |
| 29 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 30 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |