Example sentences of "about in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He showed what he is all about in the eighth inning of game five against the Cubs at Candlestick . |
| 8 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 9 | ‘ I used to mess about in the third and fourth forms , but now I do n't … |