Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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1 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
2 | They just put the bit on about the hall after . |
3 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
4 | I told Big Ben all about the hijackers , Danny being in the refrigeration unit and how Jean and I were following them . |
5 | Take the current situation for example : it is clear that the economy as a whole embarked on the present recession in about the middle of last year . |
6 | The vicar had two sons much about the same age as my brother and myself , so we were often invited into the vicarage to play . |
7 | Against that background , we consulted the industry widely about the contruction industry training board . |
8 | Then I put labels on about every single pot I could find that 's got all these various mixes in . |
9 | Well here 's one man who is very definitely erm upside down about the whole thing , if I can just er tip him over a little bit there , could you , no I 'll try that one again will I |
10 | Actually it 's a good point because there will be er I will g be giving you different guidance obviously about the final exam where material which we have n't covered er we a examined here may well be examined , yeah ? |
11 | At one place they visited , Moccas Court , in Herefordshire , home of the Cornwall family , she was able to tell the curator who formerly worked for the Ropner family at Thorp Perrow , near Bedale all about the people whose impressive portraits hung on the walls . |
12 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
13 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
14 | More mobile in about a month |
15 | We have heard some speeches tonight about the poll tax , but I want to read the editorial in the Glasgow Evening Times , so aptly published on 5 |
16 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |
17 | As they rode , Thomas told Corbett more about the Picti , how they had once ruled Scotland , even launching raids across the great Roman wall to the south to pillage and plunder Rome 's colonies . |
18 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
19 | Now , I 'm all for the members of the Great British Public knowing a great deal more about the nostrums they consume , and having the information needed to help them share in deciding which are worth having and when , and which are best left to the birds . |
20 | Culham 's early research programme recognised the need to understand a great deal more about the physics of plasma — that we needed a broad and systematic approach to the study of the physics of high-temperature matter and its confinement by magnetic fields . |
21 | A full discussion of that issue is beyond the scope of this book , but I would agree with those commentators who argue that its persistence tells us a great deal more about the present than the past . |
22 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
23 | As a result of the recent excavations , however , we know a great deal more about the 12th-century buildings than we did before . |
24 | And , in spite of the fact that she now knew a great deal more about the missing man , she still had no answer to the essential question : had she been examining the life of a victim of violent crime , or that of a murderer ? |
25 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
26 | It was difficult to ask some months later about the events and personnel : most Zuwaya were understandably reticent and those who were more ready to talk were not always obviously reliable . |
27 | The fact that it has not happened says a great deal both about the appointments process and the legal profession . |
28 | We know a good deal now about the way in which the genes act . ’ |
29 | We will usually be treating individual instructions or groups of instructions in terms of the facilities that they control , so it is worth saying a few words here about the instruction set as a whole . |
30 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |