Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] about [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't be embarrassed to talk about lice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is almost a proof that you are not willing to think about things . |
| 4 | Part of the management job is to create an atmosphere in which it is possible to talk about problems . |
| 5 | It may seem strange to talk about women idealising men . |
| 6 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's much too early to think about things like that , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Thank you for your letter also ; I was so terribly sorry to hear about Marbles ' demise — such a characterful friend — and I felt for you so much . |
| 9 | decimals , cos you 're supposed to know about decimals as well , so do that one on your calculator now , I know you 've just , you 've just worked it out the long way , so you just , and you do n't even need the one point nought , you can just put one , and then take away point , nought point two five . |
| 10 | It is natural to worry about children , especially when they are ill , but worrying too much can be very harmful to them . |
| 11 | What , for example , are men supposed to do about books by women ? |
| 12 | And what are they supposed to do about books by black women ? |
| 13 | It is all very well to talk about observables being represented by operators but the result of an actual measurement is always just a number . |
| 14 | She paused , and said with genuine sincerity , ‘ It 's been so good to talk about things , feelings . ’ |
| 15 | It was so useful to talk about careers in a practical setting . ’ |
| 16 | It 's far more useful to think about plays in terms of the questions they ask us than what they tell us . |
| 17 | That is why it 's good to think about ways you can encourage your students to view actively . |
| 18 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 19 | What I need to do is to go through them with you and make sure you fully understand what they what their origins are etcetera because isomers we base the questions are very very common so I 'll be able to talk about marks . |
| 20 | Because BR is reluctant to talk about profits , it is difficult to gauge accurately how successful InterCity 's forage into the top end of the charter-train market has been , or how much the total earnings from charter traffic contribute to the sector 's overall profitability . |
| 21 | He said he 'd be able to help about subsidies and that kind of thing . |
| 22 | These results confirm previous findings which indicate that young children have a good understanding of the concept of intention , and are able to reason about intentions and results simultaneously . |
| 23 | Andrew would go back to the bright lights of the capital and she , Benedicta , would ensure that Topaz was kept too busy to think about things which could break her heart . |
| 24 | It is particularly important to check about vaccinations because many of them contain live virus . |
| 25 | One example er , a couple of examples erm , we 've worked together with the unions in Moulinex in northern France who bought Swan Kettles er which is where the G M B is erm is highly organized and er in those er meetings between the unions in , in Moulinex and Swan we 've been able to see the disparity between the conditions and the wages and be able to speak about ways in which people can go back to their , to their er workplace and work on that with that knowledge . |
| 26 | It is misleading and inaccurate to generalise about women and men and the linguistic correlates of their roles . |
| 27 | ( It is possible to learn about aspects of sentence structure by studying linguistics , specifically the part of linguistics called SYNTAX . ) |
| 28 | Most of our Shetlander informants stressed that it was difficult to talk about groups or categories among Shetlanders . |
| 29 | Managing director of the family-run firm , Owen Patterson , said : ‘ We are looking at rationalising the workforce but it is not fair to talk about numbers until we have completed discussions with unions . |
| 30 | The couple were too distressed to talk about daughters Becky and Emma , but issued a statement . |