Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can also lead to narrowness in that staff may have technical and specialist information in a single field but little concern or understanding about the work of other departments . |
| 2 | If Marcus was sitting on his bed or walking about the room or looking out of the window , Ludens would sit near him either on a chair or else on the floor his knees up , his back against the wall . |
| 3 | All speculation or philosophising about the nature and existence of a ‘ god ’ , before the arrival of life on earth is futile . |
| 4 | He has a habit of giving me messages for my dad or asking about the family that does n't go down well . |
| 5 | Anyone listening to or reading about the debate will know that the nub of the Government 's thinking is that they want the Bill to be passed . |
| 6 | about five hundred over the year or six hundred or talking about a maximum of twenty pounds taken over right , thank you . |
| 7 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 8 | ‘ We are not thinking or talking about the past , ’ he insisted . |
| 9 | Although recognizing the dangers of verbalizing about art , Greger is adamant that ‘ … without analysis , without thinking or talking about the many interrelated meanings of an art form , the process of coming-to-know , or of ‘ growing up ’ to a work is probably not possible' ( ibid ) . |
| 10 | comedy the comedy of the situation language certain elements of wit or talking about the farmhouse language , farmyard . |
| 11 | Books such as those used for beginning readers are useful for demonstrating this effect , and if you have found yourself daydreaming or thinking about a conversation with a colleague while " going through the motions " of reading to a child , this does not mean that your reading was inadequate . |
| 12 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 13 | Still , he thought , Holly would no doubt think twice before following them into a place like that , and to keep beside the brook might well prove safer than wandering about the fields in one direction and another , with the risk of finding themselves , in the end , back at the warren . |
| 14 | But for de Man the difference between literature and criticism is delusive , and writing about a book is no less a process of invention than writing about an imaginary world . |
| 15 | If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle . |
| 16 | Geoffrey was also in charge of the effects record on the Panatrope ; he was better at that than moving about the stage . |
| 17 | There 's nowt folk like more than reading about a good tune , so for as long as there is pop music , there will be glossies , inkies , monthlies , weeklies , columns , companions , fanzines , tradezines , pull-outs , poster-mags , flexi-mags , the lot . |
| 18 | The results showed that knowing about the theme of the passage only at recall did not improve performance . |
| 19 | This sort of evidence leads me to the conclusion that the continents , rather than sailing about the earth until they met in catastrophic collisions , separated and came together again repeatedly along the same general lines . |
| 20 | Rather than talking about a ‘ good ’ temperament it is better to talk about a ‘ suitable ’ temperament , ie. the horse is suited to its intended purpose and the personality and experience of his rider . |
| 21 | We have to encourage counsellees that talking about the issues which worry them might be helpful . |
| 22 | You need to select flat water conditions with no more than a Force 3 otherwise you will be concentrating too hard on staying upright rather than thinking about the exercises . |
| 23 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 24 | He soons starts squawking and wiping his eye and stamping about the place but if he 's like that all the while to them so what is . |
| 25 | For a long time we have been thinking and praying about a place of our own . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'll be running back to his cow of a wife now and laughing about the way he conned the owner 's wife . ’ |
| 27 | the lack of knowledge and understanding about the basis for allocation ; |
| 28 | The parents needed not only extensive marital therapy but also to realize that Suzy needed sympathy and understanding about the distress she felt when her parents argued . |
| 29 | Nor is it in keeping with the call in the Health of the Nation for better information and understanding about the burden of mental illness . |
| 30 | The project seeks to develop theory and understanding about the behaviour of urban land prices in low and middle-income residential districts of contemporary Third World cities . |