Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 2 | SIR — The Economist is right to worry about the future of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that the hon. Gentleman is quite right to worry about the level of representation in England because every time a Tory is defeated in Scotland he flees the country , comes down here and tries to get a Tory seat ? |
| 4 | They do n't just give up at 25 or 30 to worry about the children . |
| 5 | Mr. Kent replied that the nurse was wrong to talk about the staff improving the quality of health care . |
| 6 | The couple , who live in the north of the city , were too embarrassed to talk about the missing nestegg . |
| 7 | Vietnam , however , maintained that internal issues should be discussed with the SOC government in Phnom Penh ; it was only willing to talk about the international aspects of the problem , and urged the USA to expand the talks to include the SOC government . |
| 8 | It was several weeks before she realised that now that he was working he would not be free to walk about the neighbourhood . |
| 9 | Any accountants with deep-rooted sea-dog tendencies might be interested to hear about the Accountants ' Sailing Challenge , to be held in Poole Harbour on 28 May . |
| 10 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |
| 11 | I was interested to hear about the state of the Scottish agriculture industry . |
| 12 | I have be very interested to hear about the recent developments and most impressed at what 's taken place , but er , I would like to ask about the international work , which I understand has been reduced . |
| 13 | It was interesting to read about the Washington write-offs — WF555 was captained by a F/O Connolly who was very much an extrovert ( with an extensive repertoire of bawdy songs ) . |
| 14 | Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season , but was briskly recalled to his duties . |
| 15 | The first suggestion implies that context pre-exposure should make subsequently acquired latent inhibition less likely to be context-specific — subjects need to be prepared to learn about the context if context-specificity is to occur . |
| 16 | Neither found that they had anything fresh to say about a city which has been over-painted , over-written about , over-filmed . |
| 17 | gets the odd enquiry about becoming a guide and she meets those interested to explain about the job , but for the moment she has a full complement of volunteers . |
| 18 | Dickens , writing in 1850 , has this to say about the district around Watney Street : |
| 19 | Literature on the subject has chiefly been critical ; for example , in a special review of the world press in 1973 , The Times of London had this to say about the African press in what was a uniformly gloomy and disapproving report : |
| 20 | The Select Committee ( 1987 ) examin-ing the working of the 1981 Education Act has this to say about the under-fives and special educational needs : |
| 21 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 22 | A member of our group had this to say about the writing of this paper : ‘ It will be worth doing if it gets read by a lot of people . |
| 23 | Ronnie Cairns , Head of Standards at Scottish Enterprise , had this to say about the three organisations ' joint commitment to quality : |
| 24 | Michael had this to say about the inaccessibility to the general public of recent contemporary music . |
| 25 | Stage 3 : A semi-open prison or low security gaol , the inmate being free to move about the grounds and working outside the facility during the day . |
| 26 | Not only does Mr Howley deal exclusively in books about Christmas , he is also prepared to travel about the country giving week-long seminars on the subject . |
| 27 | Last night none of the defendants were prepared to speak about the matter . |
| 28 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |
| 29 | Carolyn found it suddenly possible to talk about the future , which she had not dared to do before . |
| 30 | Evidence of identification was given by the college chaplain who said he was too upset to talk about the death . |