Example sentences of "about [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 2 | But the only , I think the only course he 'll pass is mucking about course , let's see who can muck about for the next three years the most . |
| 3 | He seems to think that it is fair that I should have first crack since I am the one who has carried the worms about for the last umpteen days . |
| 4 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 5 | To date it is a subtle but important change of mood that , with luck , will grow stronger over the winter — allowing spring to bring those green shoots of recovery that the Treasury and the Chancellor have been banging on about for the last two years . |
| 6 | So we came about for the last time , since we were now south of the entrance , and motorsailed north , a little further off , to give the rock a good clearance . |
| 7 | If these turn out to be major then it 's often better to re-scan the picture for the new dimensions than to mess about with the first version . |
| 8 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 9 | For example , a lecturer may have irregular commitments outside the Course , or the institution , which are not easy to record in a computer ( unless complicated data structures are used ) and are even harder to gather accurate information about in the first place . |
| 10 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 11 | erm I 've always believed that consistency is an overrated virtue so I 'm not gon na criticise the Conservatives for changing their minds but you have to ask yourself why is this recorded on the agenda today when the sub-committee , planning sub- committee has already met and discussed these matters and things have moved on a little further Well we we really have to look at how the resolution in this paragraph came about in the first place . |
| 12 | We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 14 | He showed what he is all about in the eighth inning of game five against the Cubs at Candlestick . |
| 15 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 16 | ‘ I used to mess about in the third and fourth forms , but now I do n't … |
| 17 | This dread of receiving a telegram was something our parents knew all about from the First World War , and here was history repeating itself . |
| 18 | Were all these studs about before the First Wor before the Second World War ? |
| 19 | ‘ Banks , Fraud and Crime ’ was the topic which gave the speakers , commentators and participants plenty to debate and learn about at the 11th annual Banking Law Seminar . |
| 20 | Part of the Webster ruin was brought about by the fifth baronet 's attempts to reroof many of the derelict Battle Abbey buildings in 1812 — 13 . |
| 21 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |