Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 2 | Although I fully understand and share the concern that has been widely expressed about the implications of this case , I have no plans to institute any formal inquiry . |
| 3 | Having been duly warned about an overseas tour , in time a boat list appeared and all the old sweats started horrific stories about the various places we were destined to go . |
| 4 | The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right . |
| 5 | She had been badly battered about the head . |
| 6 | The consequence of this is that we are constantly hypothesizing about the possible significance of each event , and often discovering that we are wrong . |
| 7 | In the course of our social lives we are constantly learning about ways of thinking and behaving considered appropriate by those other members of society with whom we come into contact ( as well as those considered inappropriate by them ) and this learning process only ceases when social life itself ceases — on death . |
| 8 | Mr Pratt , whose father Glyn was a former Merseyside County Councillor , added : ‘ We are constantly hearing about the desire to breathe new life back into New Brighton . |
| 9 | With regard to the perceived needs of the post-1992 Europe , free movement of labour and equality of opportunity are much talked about concepts . |
| 10 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 11 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 12 | I am only talking about the next hundred years , he wrote , perhaps even only the next decade . |
| 13 | In recent days there 's been increasing evidence that the European countries , including Britain , are extremely disturbed about this . |
| 14 | The Opposition are so rattled about it that NALGO is spending £2 million to advertise against it . |
| 15 | Nowadays we are so scattered about the country that it is very unlikely that any of us would have a Stainey just around the corner who could be relied upon to put up a first class polish . |
| 16 | I think you are especially wonderful , the way you are so understanding about my odd career . |
| 17 | There has been much written about the central character in the programme and Johnny Speight 's intentions in creating a ‘ foul-mouthed bigot ’ such as Garnett . |
| 18 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 19 | Instinctively she knew that this was Stavros , the Greek man that her brothers had been constantly talking about since Anthony 's death . |
| 20 | So far , though , we are only talking about arranging a meaningful funeral service . |
| 21 | ‘ The government is very cautious — they say they are only talking about domestic accounting principles — but this is a big step forward . ’ |
| 22 | I mean we are only talking about a few yards difference . |
| 23 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 24 | The James-type account is , by contrast , one which requires us to concede that we are somehow mistaken about the nature of our experience of bodily sensations . |
| 25 | They have nothing better to do than go down and make a nuisance of themselves to people who are peacefully going about their own affairs . |
| 26 | We have been generally talking about mixing different plant proteins but , of course , people generally mix plant with animal proteins in meals as part of a traditional way of eating . |
| 27 | I 'm sure you are already thinking about the |
| 28 | But the police are already complaining about their poor pay and the fact that they are armed only with handguns . |
| 29 | in these 0.3 seconds , skiers and the trade are already complaining about the ‘ pattern ’ of winter weather which has tarnished the last three seasons ( 0.03 seconds of the earthly year ) . |
| 30 | If he does not , analysts are already talking about recommending the shares on bid hopes . |