Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun pl] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 2 | We have all heard stories about GPs alleged to have given patients short shrift with remarks like : ‘ Throw away your crutches . |
| 3 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 4 | you have all heard rumours about who is using clenbuteriol and when someone is caught farmers will say : ‘ It 's about time the Department caught up with him ’ . |
| 5 | The only positive aspect of the strike from the Party 's point of view was that the miners had only formulated demands about their conditions of work and life . |
| 6 | Readability researchers often emphasise that it is not possible to use a formula to assess difficulty at the individual sentence level ; a formula or graph can only make predictions about difficulty at a global level . |
| 7 | Similarly we can only make inferences about the nature of learning from observing these changes . |
| 8 | The Minoan belief-system was extremely complex and we can , in the absence of detailed , first-hand , documentary evidence , only make inferences about it . |
| 9 | Nothing ‘ happened ’ — but that was n't my fault and I do n't think much of a man who 's foul-mouthed enough to insinuate things about his own sister ! ’ |
| 10 | Detective Superintendent Michael Cole said : ‘ If anyfamily has doubts about anyone close to them , inform us immediately . ’ |
| 11 | This we read with great interest , but at the time my husband merely made enquiries about leaving his body for medical research and was told there was not a teaching hospital near enough to accept him . |
| 12 | Such variations not only confuse users about the forms of headings , but also make it difficult for a cataloguer inserting a new heading for local use to discern the principles which should be heeded to retain consistency of approach . |
| 13 | Although the underlying need for a law of contempt in this area seems to be clear , I have long had doubts about the procedural aspects . |
| 14 | This obviously raises questions about philosophical priority ; is the theory of meaning able to be prior to epistemology and to provide a court of appeal for epistemological debate ? |
| 15 | Teenagers and older children also need to talk over their feelings about a grandparent 's death , and perhaps examine beliefs about life after death . |
| 16 | There is a kind of feedback into the black community : stories about going for a job , getting turned down and explaining the failure as caused by being black get fed back to other blacks and so nourish conceptions about the structure of society . |
| 17 | I had a nervous breakdown at Frankland Jail and suddenly discovered feelings about my childhood . |
| 18 | However , at the beginning of the year we can not know for certain what the inflation rates will be ; we can only have expectations about what they will be . |
| 19 | You seem to have inherited a typically horrible pond with a typical occupant — a Koi which has clearly not read PFK , otherwise it would swiftly develop psychoses about its inadequate accommodation and peg out ! |
| 20 | In a revolution , where any decision may suddenly raise questions about freedom , justice , in a new form , and where every aspect of life may be brought under scrutiny , it could follow that all action , all weighing of pros and cons , is unprincipled . |
| 21 | I only write songs about drugs ! |
| 22 | It seems to allow that , although we must begin and end with appearances , we might find it possible and advantageous in doing so to interpose conjectures about their hidden causes . |
| 23 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 24 | Steiner 's association of homosexuality with narcissism , solipsism , and the refusal of referentiality obviously suggests reservations about both modernism ( as he conceives it ) and the efficacy of the homosexual influence upon it , and it comes as no surprise that in his most recent book he launches a strong attack on the former . |
| 25 | In a rip-and-tear piece , the newsletter dismisses as canards all the fondly held notions about RISC and makes an item-by-item case that RISC as faster , cheaper and easier to design is all illusion . |
| 26 | The good Duke was foolish enough to make enquiries about certain precious relics and the King 's agents closed in . |
| 27 | The teacher daily makes decisions about which register to teach , which lexical items to emphasise , whether to teach colloquialisms , and such decisions are frequently based more on instinct than knowledge . |
| 28 | The importance of knowing why we do things and not just what to do has altered many of the concepts and shattered many long held perceptions about the effectiveness and quality of care we give to patients . |
| 29 | He was very angry about the shooting and kept on shouting threats about what he 'd do to Lou Vecchi when he caught up with him . |
| 30 | It 's like that , I hate it when they fucking make cartoons about all kinds of shit like you know Rambo ? |