Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 2 | With modest growth and an unemployment rate of around 7% , it may seem odd to worry about inflation . |
| 3 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 4 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 5 | But Iain , who worked briefly as an architect , says he 's too old to worry about pop fame . |
| 6 | The accurate measurement of area by this method must be achieved before it is sensible to talk about reflectance . |
| 7 | I wanted to hear from people who were prepared to talk about adultery with stories that would work on television . |
| 8 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 9 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 10 | Men today are willing to talk about sex — sensibly , with insight and a surprising amount of humility . |
| 11 | it is usually easier to talk about language , than to write about it ; |
| 12 | He was prepared to bargain about money , but not about power . |
| 13 | Often they are seen to have three ingredients : a cognitive ingredient ( what I believe , say , about pollution ) ; an affective ingredient ( how I feel about pollution ) ; and a behavioural ingredient ( what I am prepared to do about pollution ) . |
| 14 | ‘ As long as people were willing to argue about literature , I really did n't care what age they were , ’ he says . |
| 15 | He had this to say about weathering . |
| 16 | They decided that in the circumstances it would be foolish to bother about insurance . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend is right to talk about nation states in some respects , but today we are seeing the dismantling of conglomerations . |
| 18 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 19 | Coupled with this factual thesis is the full-blooded relativist view that there are only these different views ; that to talk about morality is to make reference to them ; and that there is no fact-of-the-matter ; no independent concept of right and wrong ; of good and bad ; of duty or responsibility . |
| 20 | He adds : ‘ It 's a drag that a place where teenagers were listening to music was n't considered appropriate to talk about AIDS . |
| 21 | Nikki Milican jumps to their defence : ‘ It 's impossible to talk about performance art and not sound pretentious . |
| 22 | SINCE we are in the middle of the International Coffee Organisation meeting -how do they pass a week without a visible result ? — I thought it appropriate to think about tea . |
| 23 | There are those who 'd say it 's still too early to think about Christmas . |
| 24 | There 'd be so much to learn about fabric , about draping … |
| 25 | He had nothing much to say about poetry . |
| 26 | Thompson has much to say about law . |
| 27 | Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape . |
| 28 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 29 | So sorry to hear about Win Morgan I was , fine woman , your mam . ’ |
| 30 | you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so |