Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The one thing my father likes about me , or rather about the only thing he is n't directly rude about , is my hair ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 3 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 4 | ‘ Behind Bars ’ at the new , huge , non-profit Threadwaxing Space on Broadway is not as you might suspect a show of political art about prisoners ' rights or even about the exotic lives of cocktail waitresses but rather about the stripe in art . |
| 5 | It could be about particular authors who 've been through the public-school system , or even about the way the system works at close hand . |
| 6 | We have already suggested that along with the use of child labour there was little uniformity either chronologically or geographically about the employment of women in coal mines . |
| 7 | The eating and sleeping arrangements of the students , whether in college or abroad about the town , caught his attention ; the length of the courses ; the kind of degree available , and all the curricular paraphernalia of learning . |
| 8 | Venture capitalists ' optimism or otherwise about the medium and longer term tends to be governed to a degree by the number and quality of the deals on offer . |
| 9 | He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it . |
| 10 | ‘ She was right about the ERM , right about Europe — and right about the Poll Tax . ’ |
| 11 | He was at least right about that — and right about the Government who are making such promises . |
| 12 | Whatever , he was never the same person again , and seemed to care less and less about the band and the music until he announced , mid-tour in 1970 , that he was leaving . |
| 13 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 14 | As he and George rode towards Kirkby , Jonadab grumbled loud and long about the money he had paid out that morning . |
| 15 | Any broadcaster will tell you that there is something different and better about a live ‘ performance ’ . |
| 16 | DURING the furore of the next three weeks of General Election campaigning , for Christians perhaps a few reflections about the institution which is the House of Commons — and especially about the men and women who are sent there — would not come amiss . |
| 17 | However , in common with some previous research ( Sinfield 1968 ; Norris 1978 ; Townsend 1979 ; Walker 1982a ) , the results of the After Redundancy study raised questions about the precise distinctions between economic activity and inactivity and especially about the assumptions which underlie this crude dichotomy , a point I return to later . |
| 18 | There was also anxiety about the proximity of the war to the Soviet Union 's southern borders , and especially about the likelihood of its escalating into a chemical or nuclear conflict . |
| 19 | There are , however , a number of difficulties with this perspective , and especially about the core issue with which we have been concerned . |
| 20 | Comprehension questions are intended initially , to familiarise pupils with the document , and , in addition , to establish a certain body of knowledge about the document and especially about the process of its creation , that will form the foundation for enquiries directed at more " historical " preoccupations . |
| 21 | Firstly , erm , we undertook a survey of our own membership er , in order to see what sort of action people were taking themselves , er , about disablement issues , and especially about the employment of disabled people within their own organisation . |
| 22 | One is a wall mural consisting entirely of fishes spiralling towards and outwards about a single pole ( Figure 7 ) . |
| 23 | The worries expressed by many in the cities and elsewhere about the possible return of social and environmental conditions reminiscent of Victorian capitalism have proved groundless . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend will be aware that there is much disquiet in Warwickshire and elsewhere about the standard spending assessment and the result of the revenue support grant — At least I get support on some occasions from Labour Members . |
| 25 | The recent structuralist and post-structuralist revolutions in literary theory have caused people to think very energetically and critically about the relationship between the structures of language and the structures of culture . |
| 26 | They all cackle with pleasure at the absurdity of it ; then , as soon as Harry has gone back into his room , they all mock him , walking back and forth about the room holding imaginary braces and letter , and talking with a German accent . |
| 27 | The fact that Mrs Thatcher talks less today about the dangers of ‘ national ’ sovereignty from the Delors version of EMU and more about the ‘ threat to national parliamentary accountability ’ has not been lost on MEPs . |
| 28 | We need to know more about the reader 's understanding of still pictures , and more about the understanding of moving and animated pictures . |
| 29 | We are learning more and more about the body 's complex system of integrated metabolic pathways — for instance , the recent discovery of the prostaglandin system — but much , much more remains to be discovered . |
| 30 | As the days went by she moaned more and more about the mess the wood caused . |