Example sentences of "[noun sg] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 2 | The exhibit 's called ’ Yellow Peril ’ , and is supposed to question the way we in the west think about the Chinese . |
| 3 | There is a unity about the fictional world of Lawrence Durrell , but , to this reader at any rate , a meretricious one . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a unity about the whole thing which needs to be practised in a single centre , ’ the MRC source said . |
| 5 | There 's been a lot of conjecture about the two of you , you know . ’ |
| 6 | Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone . |
| 7 | The fact that we give each other little clues , invitations and propositions , gives a transparency to our motives , but it also builds excitement and suspense about the actual unveiling of each coming together . |
| 8 | I am writing as the senior partner in a solicitors ' practice , employing over 20 people , in reply to some of the comments spreading gloom and despondency about the Labour Party 's proposals in the areas of taxation , economic growth and training . |
| 9 | An anonymous reviewer of the book in the Times Literary Supplement declared : ‘ If a student of British politics were to demand some precepts to guide his researches , the compiler would have little difficulty about the first and most significant maxim in the creed . |
| 10 | But the difficulty about the natural method was that the classification had no shape . |
| 11 | When more or less alone at night in the casualty ward , the doctor needs to be able to make up his or her own mind , and exercise judgement about the particular features presented by the accident victim just wheeled in . |
| 12 | It is too soon yet to make a judgement about the relative importance of these different factors . |
| 13 | Provided people assess their own utility by the quantity of goods that they themselves receive , B is a better allocation than A which in turn is a better allocation than C. But a comparison of A with points such as D , E or F , requires us to adopt a value judgement about the relative importance to us of David 's and Susie 's utility . |
| 14 | Without bringing in an explicit value judgement about the relative importance of David 's and Susie 's utility we can not evaluate this change . |
| 15 | Which of the Pareto-efficient points on the frontier is most desirable will depend on the dictator 's value judgement about the relative importance of David 's and Susie 's utility . |
| 16 | It is necessary to understand the simple distinction between being a non-believer , and even in some respects opposed to religion 's influence , and making a judgement about the theoretical and practical importance of religion in human societies . |
| 17 | When they had both lit up , much to Billie 's dismay , he told the scientist about the harrowing experience with Fruit Juice , about the deadly games that were played in New Orleans and culminated with Trimmler 's death . |
| 18 | I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent . |
| 19 | In November Coun Thorne-Wallis , who represents Haughton West ward , telephoned British Rail about the missing fencing below Wylam Hill near Thompson Street East but so far no action has been taken . |
| 20 | ‘ THERE is no way to know … ’ : how it resounds , that phrase , standing for centuries of silence , hints , half-knowledge about the hidden complexity and richness of women 's relations with themselves and each other . |
| 21 | Of those who did go to the 30,000 polling booths , set up in mosques and schools , few expressed enthusiasm about the current leaders . |
| 22 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 23 | GOTZ Friedrich 's 1977 staging of Der Freischutz , soberly revived at Covent Garden by Wolfgang Bucher , makes a straightforward and unambitious introduction to Weber 's melodious nervy masterpiece about the young huntsman who tries to cheat his way to the head ranger 's job and daughter with magic bullets . |
| 24 | If nothing else , she enjoyed feeling needed ; but sometimes she dreamed with disturbing vividness about the managing director , who had believed in full-length mirrors , bottles of champagne and the importance of taking one 's time . |
| 25 | There have also been complaints from some members of parliament about the high levels of educational expenditure in comparison with other services . |
| 26 | Delaney told the Russian about the submersible in the bottom of Titron . |
| 27 | However , once one begins to argue the toss about the liberal value of various academic subjects , it becomes difficult to exclude any of them : Do not medicine and engineering raise profound questions about life ? |
| 28 | Of course they were , thought Henry , they could n't give a toss about the poor bastard . |
| 29 | Again , anyone like Daphne Sheldrick , who wrote The Orphans of Tsavo about the wild animals she reared in Tsavo National Park , Kenya , where her husband David was for many years the highly successful warden , knows that African elephant calves are easily tamed . |
| 30 | His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves . |