Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 2 | With modest growth and an unemployment rate of around 7% , it may seem odd to worry about inflation . |
| 3 | But in a sense , too , she knew that Louise was not wrong to worry about Harry committing such a blunder , for Harry , moving in the social circles in which he would move , if he survived the siege , to the day of his death , would almost certainly suffer the inconveniences of having such a wife , would regret his marriage , and perhaps in due course would come to believe that his life had been ruined . |
| 4 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 5 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 6 | But Iain , who worked briefly as an architect , says he 's too old to worry about pop fame . |
| 7 | The accurate measurement of area by this method must be achieved before it is sensible to talk about reflectance . |
| 8 | I wanted to hear from people who were prepared to talk about adultery with stories that would work on television . |
| 9 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 10 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 11 | Do n't be embarrassed to talk about lice . |
| 12 | One of the few companies willing to talk about RFI is Foxbro , based in Massachusetts , which makes control equipment for petrochemical plants . |
| 13 | Men today are willing to talk about sex — sensibly , with insight and a surprising amount of humility . |
| 14 | To avoid the complications of need theories it has become more acceptable to talk about goals , values or work orientations — i.e. to acknowledge that people have tendencies to return to similar ends or goals that seem to be ( sufficiently ) important to them to suggest an underlying theme , pattern or goal behind their behaviour . |
| 15 | He was prepared to bargain about money , but not about power . |
| 16 | interesting to hear about India , about tea , because er my daughter is working in India quite a lot and it is very high poverty for people . |
| 17 | Often they are seen to have three ingredients : a cognitive ingredient ( what I believe , say , about pollution ) ; an affective ingredient ( how I feel about pollution ) ; and a behavioural ingredient ( what I am prepared to do about pollution ) . |
| 18 | Always be willing to ask questions of the material and demand to know more than the text is willing to divulge about people , places and events . |
| 19 | ‘ As long as people were willing to argue about literature , I really did n't care what age they were , ’ he says . |
| 20 | It is almost a proof that you are not willing to think about things . |
| 21 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 22 | They decided that in the circumstances it would be foolish to bother about insurance . |
| 23 | Part of the management job is to create an atmosphere in which it is possible to talk about problems . |
| 24 | Yet it is possible to have a real relationship without such consciousness , just as it is possible to talk about God without being spiritual . |
| 25 | It may seem strange to talk about women idealising men . |
| 26 | My hon. Friend is right to talk about nation states in some respects , but today we are seeing the dismantling of conglomerations . |
| 27 | It might seem odd to talk about entry halls as a postscript as it were but in practical terms most people put decorating their living rooms first . |
| 28 | Aldous Huxley said that it was impossible to write about Lawrence except as an artist . |
| 29 | He adds : ‘ It 's a drag that a place where teenagers were listening to music was n't considered appropriate to talk about AIDS . |
| 30 | Nikki Milican jumps to their defence : ‘ It 's impossible to talk about performance art and not sound pretentious . |