Example sentences of "[adj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Joe Meek shot himself in 1967 because he was depressed about the failure of his latest recordings and his troubled private life . |
| 32 | Gus , tepid about the collection in general , grew excited about one or two personal ornaments . |
| 33 | Wesker might be accused of being somewhat subjective about the play , a charge that may be repeated as the producer of his own work . |
| 34 | Without realising it , this information can also be very revealing about the type of person you are . |
| 35 | It can also be quite revealing about the individual 's translation strategies and their views on the nature of the translating process . |
| 36 | PARSONS ' piece was well meant , but very revealing about the attitude of a supposedly enlightened male . |
| 37 | Rumours had been rife about the recalling of the Reichstag , and what dramatic events were to be disclosed . |
| 38 | But by now , speculation was rife about the board , which appeared to have only one serving director , John Brockbank . |
| 39 | This is the kind of reasoning you hear when senior men think aloud in private about the theme of Cabinet government : |
| 40 | Aunt Harriet Craven had been married to a politician , a Cabinet Minister , so that always their Surrey house was full of weekend guests , men strolling in twos and threes about the lawn before luncheon , tall and important , and their lady wives , as Eleanor must learn to call them , in drooping hats . |
| 41 | And people who 've tried barfly do n't seem too worred about the danger . |
| 42 | Britain had been equally emphatic about the EDC , believing that there were simpler ways of achieving West German rearmament . |
| 43 | Indeed , Eusebius is quite explicit and quite emphatic about the importance of monarchy : ‘ Monarchy excels all other kinds of constitution and government . |
| 44 | But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process . |
| 45 | We are very upset about the incident . ’ |
| 46 | He said members were upset about the decision but felt there was nothing else they could do . |
| 47 | Never mind , she thought , never mind , for it is n't that , she is still upset about the will and still unsure what to do . |
| 48 | ‘ She was really upset about the way Miss Harker treated her . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ It 's his wife who 's upset about the way things are going . ’ |
| 50 | At her Dunblane home last night , she said : ‘ I am very upset about the story . |
| 51 | Some people get very upset about the idea that there might be any causes operating in the social world ; they fear that causal influences on human action rob people of their freedom of choice and dignity of action . |
| 52 | Markets have had a bad few weeks , but if the City gets upset about the outcome of the election , or the currency markets react strongly , there could be more pain in store . |
| 53 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 54 | Although his mother remained upset about the accident , and was naturally more protective of him , his father took the view that if Guy did not perceive himself as disabled , nobody else would , and this proved to be the case . |
| 55 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 56 | And even after due allowance has been made for the undeniable fact , easily forgotten as it is , that literature is written by writers , and that writers are likely to be highly exceptional beings who actively prefer working alone , there is still something persuasively representative about the man in the play who would rather listen to a new recording of a favourite opera than to the problems of his neighbours and relatives . |
| 57 | We could see the bargemen now , asleep about the boat , huddled in blankets . |
| 58 | ‘ We had to be specific about the exercise question because people have different ideas about what exercise is . |
| 59 | They were n't specific about the route for the money . |
| 60 | There is nothing specific about the ball bearings : nothing that makes them more suitable to one situation rather than another . |