Example sentences of "about in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of walkers take this fact for granted , striding about in the sure and certain knowledge that nothing will drop from a tree and start to devour their head . |
| 2 | Public expenditure must be savagely reduced , business had to be liberated from the web of state and federal regulations and stability brought about in the monetary system . |
| 3 | The kids are larking about in the steam-filled room , and the girl seems grateful for adult conversation . |
| 4 | I strongly predict that the changes that have come about in the Soviet Union are likely to come to China in a different form but to the same degree in the years that lie ahead . |
| 5 | Nobody has any idea what he 's on about in the mangled trance opening song ‘ Bong ’ , but at least there 's some conviction and fire . |
| 6 | The differences in contents in different individuals come about in the following manner , and here I must stress that I am talking about sexually reproducing species such as our own . |
| 7 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 8 | I think it 's particularly useful as a way of gaining entry to ideas about childhood — what children are for , why to have them — that are n't written about in the official records , that is , in the textbooks of child analysis and child psychology , and in sociological descriptions of childhood . |
| 9 | Peace came about in the 1680s through Teleut exhaustion . |
| 10 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 11 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 12 | Of all the great canards quacking about in the European propaganda lake , none is more easily shot out of the water than the one about German federalists . |
| 13 | it is really very difficult to stick to a principle when the form of capital can be changed about in the many forms that modern complex conditions will allow … the thing is to look at the spirit which initiates these particular forms of thrift on the part of people . |
| 14 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | but er the essential work contract then that I had spoken about in the first place the building trade , that was a government order . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 19 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 20 | There were still a great many people about in the outer ward , but once they had passed through the archway to the inner ward the night world about them was quiet , troubled by only a few echoing footsteps . |
| 21 | The development of an elite theory which dared to call itself such came about in the late nineteenth century as a reaction particularly against the radical egalitarian democratic ideals of Karl Marx and the Western European socialist movements . |
| 22 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Like the ornithologist who has to reach an impossibly remote island by a certain day in the rainy season only to find it overflowing with ornithologists from all over the world choking the woodland tracks with cameras and tripods , trying to catch a fleeting glimpse of a small bird as it hops about in the dripping undergrowth . |
| 26 | The champion poisoners — the Borgias of the forest — are the tiny kokoi frogs that patter boldly about in the tropical undergrowth of South America . |
| 27 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 28 | This book is a study of how change comes about in the industrial relations of public enterprises . |
| 29 | Er , speaking of accountants , I must tell you that one of the perks of my job is to be able to get out and about in the real world , to real companies , meeting real people . |
| 30 | On the assumption that he or she might not have carried the murder weapon away Wycliffe had ordered a search of the foreshore , and a police frogman was floundering about in the shallow off-shore waters like a porpoise on the point of stranding . |