Example sentences of "about in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no one , who knows what he is about in good company , would venture to talk all ; — so no author , who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding , would presume to think all : The truest respect which you can pay to the reader 's understanding , is to halve this matter amicably , and leave him something to imagine , in his turn , as well as yourself . |
| 2 | Whilst oil barons may be prepared to suffer this while oil is in relatively short supply , they will probably adopt a different attitude if demand falls , and this could come about in many ways — perhaps by substantial on-shore reserves being discovered elsewhere in the world . |
| 3 | The New Testament was born about in many men 's hands … ’ . |
| 4 | That it is wrong , we may learn from the sights all around us : drunken men lying on the ground , cursing and making oaths ; young women lost to the bondage of early motherhood , always pushing children about in small carts , and making oaths ; reckless gamblers who by their own improvidence must sell double-glazing for the prudent man 's windows . |
| 5 | Gorillas move about in small parties usually containing one large adult ‘ grey-back ’ male . |
| 6 | ‘ Where are you ? ’ shouted the Campbell , spinning about in small circles . |
| 7 | In its citation , the Nobel Committee ( of the Norwegian parliament , which awarded the Peace Prize ) said that it wished to honour Gorbachev for his " many and decisive contributions " to East-West relations and " for the greater openness he has brought about in Soviet society " . |
| 8 | I never thought of that , I just think that they were bananas jumping about in stripy pyjamas . |
| 9 | The modelling of the subjects is very natural , and the lighting-spread is such that performers can move about in reasonable freedom without running into areas which are over or underlit . |
| 10 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 11 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 12 | However , it may be that for bipolar disorders there is an inherited deficit , while for milder disorders the deficit may come about in other ways ( Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 13 | This comes about in two ways . |
| 14 | This has been brought about in two ways , first , by specific EEC Directives which insist , for instance , that Britain gives preference to EEC countries with respect to her sales of North Sea oil . |
| 15 | Richard was like a gusher of newly tapped oil spraying about in all directions . |
| 16 | Its toes are strong enough to hold it on the bark , no matter which way it is facing and it hops about in all directions with sure-footed nimbleness . |
| 17 | He suddenly stopped talking and , gazing intently through the semi-darkness to our left , he said excitedly. , ‘ Piper , do you see anything moving about in that field over there ? ’ |
| 18 | Harold was about eight or nine and he was always playing and running about in that meadow yonder . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 20 | And men like my husband Bernard , full of love and trust , look up to heaven with adoring eyes , victims of the phenomena of positive transference which the tortured so easily develops for his torturer , and plunge about in female flesh crying , ‘ Only procreate and all will be well . ’ |
| 21 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 22 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 23 | One of the most important changes brought about in higher education by the Education Reform Act was the removal of polytechnics from local authority control and their conversion into independent institutions in much the same position as the universities . |
| 24 | Hyam believes that the sexual activities of imperialist manpower have been erased from the historical record , or else written about in stereotyped ways which had little to do with reality , and that we are therefore left with an incomplete understanding of the colonial experience . |
| 25 | The latter are easier to lay , but you need a thicker layer , of about 150mm , to get the same insulation performance as a 100mm thick layer of blanket , and they can blow about in draughty lofts . |
| 26 | The animals are often very large , and they frequently go about in great herds . |
| 27 | In the mess , speculation had buzzed about in hushed whispers , knowing , secretive nods . |
| 28 | Skulking about in private passages , listening at doors , betraying your rightful queen . ’ |
| 29 | My name had been bandied about in recent weeks , ever since the ban was reduced by two years . |
| 30 | THIS BOUGHT-in piece of Canadian whimsy was basically five minutes of real rodents travelling about in tiny boats , with voices provided by future Animal Magic guru Johnny Morris . |