Example sentences of "[noun] are [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I says , Well er we 're going about here , the two shunters are going about here and they 're vying with each other to see how much they can ignore me . |
| 2 | ‘ The fee Glentoran are talking about is acceptable to us . ’ |
| 3 | According to the Brazilian government 's own figures , two-thirds of the population now suffers from some degree of malnutrition and in the north-east nutritionists are talking about an epidemic of dwarfism . |
| 4 | Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ? |
| 5 | PEOPLE in the West are talking about traps built into the proposed DDR travel liberalisation law . |
| 6 | Experiments like these provide a fairly conclusive demonstration that , even in simple learning tasks , animals are learning about the nature and location of biologically important events like food . |
| 7 | The club are thinking about him and rooting for him . ’ |
| 8 | But I do know what these designers are talking about and it 's light years away from the ever-so-respectable , traditional French and Italian fashion design . |
| 9 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 10 | I spent the day with Faith Reed and her family — husband Chris and children Lydia , aged 3½ , Sophie , aged two , and Jake , aged nine months — and answered some of the questions today 's parents are asking about their children 's food . |
| 11 | Nannies , schools , God knows what … and you know the Balls Raggets are thinking about me , joint with old Billy Naylor . |
| 12 | Until recently , it appeared that 300 megabytes was probably the limit of the technology but now magnetic media enthusiasts are talking about gigabytes ( thousands of megabytes ) soon becoming commercially available . |
| 13 | That 's doubtless because originators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick are writing about themselves and their friends : like Michael Steadman , who is at the centre of this universe , they are Jews in their mid-thirties married to non-Jews and with young children . |
| 14 | In the pub , a group of young clowns are moaning about Bognor . |
| 15 | Here , then , the discussion will simply be an elaboration of what Sperber and Wilson are talking about in the very text I have cited . |
| 16 | It is the same Dylan Kerr , and local guys here , who watch Reading are raving about him . |
| 17 | ALL economists are blushing about their recent forecasting failures ( see page 91 ) , and the International Monetary Fund is no exception . |
| 18 | I think it 's Henry IV Part 1 , where Hotspur and Glendower are talking about magic . ) |
| 19 | The language we observe is the surface realisation of plans ; plans which are designed to produce sequences of actions which will solve the problem the participants are talking about . |
| 20 | Now trade officials are talking about yet another deadline in mid-December , it seems as if the EC may at last be ready to play a more active role in liberalising world trade , thanks largely to goading from its energetic new trade commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan . |
| 21 | ‘ Conditions are becoming about right for more . ’ |
| 22 | Now the NZRFU are talking about a short one-test tour to South Africa . |
| 23 | In their great mock-palazzo in Whitehall , FO ministers and mandarins are brainstorming about a possible Middle East peace conference and a post-war security structure for the region . |
| 24 | The armies are talking about closer planning of things like use of French ports . |
| 25 | As a result , most firms are talking about paying higher dividends . |
| 26 | So you can imagine the sort of conversations we 're gon na have when Ray and Cynthia are talking about the distances between things and I 'm going to be saying you know if I want to go from Piccadilly to Tech house , it can take me at least half an hour . |
| 27 | Switching the focus to track and field competition , more details are emerging about some of this season 's important fixtures . |
| 28 | Sir Charles died from natural causes , and the strange stories people are telling about his death are not true . |
| 29 | A lot of people are inquiring about remortgages but often when they find out what exactly is involved they are happy to stay where they are . |
| 30 | When people are ringing about their relatives in the Gulf , er they just want to know what is the latest , are they coming out , this kind of thing . |