Example sentences of "[v-ing] about [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world . |
| 2 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 3 | Manucci 's account of Mughal India is as full of gossip as Bernier 's , but the precarious manner in which he chose to live his life meant that his book has rather more action in it : rather than fussing about the relative merits of Parisian and Mughal architecture , he fights as an artilleryman in the Mughal civil war , has his caravan ambushed by bandits , battles with a pressgang and is finally besieged in a fort on an island in the Indus . |
| 4 | Dorothea wiped her eyes and blew her nose and looked around her , at the overcoated figures , huddled and sneezing about the table-tennis table under the Vestry lights . |
| 5 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 6 | I had been paying the fees of the home a month in advance , but when explaining about the social security payments , I sent two months ' fees in advance to cover , as I thought , any delay . |
| 7 | I fall asleep more grudgingly , thrashing at the waves , either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one . |
| 8 | Asked a few pertinent questions on Thursday 's Question Time television programme , he was reduced to mumbling about an academic study by a ‘ distinguished ’ Stirling University economist . |
| 9 | Brazilian soccer was in mourning this week after a match which had commentators wailing about the worst game ever to be witnessed in the hallowed Maracana Stadium . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , sorry , it was just something I heard Dad and Guy laughing about the other day . |
| 11 | When he came to the surface , by some obscure miracle his leash had held , and his board was bobbing about a few yards away . |
| 12 | Have they not done similar such publications knocking about the Green Party like catalogues for |
| 13 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 14 | He argues that if anyone questions the suitability of a designer as a captain of industry it displays the lack of understanding about the true nature of design that has plagued this country for many years . |
| 15 | The research should contribute to understanding about the relative roles played by material circumstances and political mobilisation in the shaping of attitudes to welfare . |
| 16 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 17 | ‘ Me ! ’ cries Howard , walking about the upper roof garden of his converted dungeon . |
| 18 | And as Old Mother Potts would n't allow men visitors , and Len did n't like dancing , it had been pretty dreary just walking about the wintry streets together . |
| 19 | I thought of Biblical characters dressed in white flowing robes walking about the arid plains of Palestine or striding along the shores of the Sea of Galilee , making lepers leap into the air and hurl away their bells . |
| 20 | On the other hand there is the danger of negative attitudes developing about the segregated units after initial enthusiasm , or if they are not properly planned or provided with the resources to provide a truly specialist service . |
| 21 | I was remembering Alison , Alison wandering about the flat naked , singing , like a child . |
| 22 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 23 | McKibben was writing about a global crisis . |
| 24 | But while writing about a sexual relationship between a man and woman Shakespeare does not continue with Donne towards celebration of the beloved , effecting a union between sex and love . |
| 25 | Some little image , some detail you 've noticed — you 're writing about a little country shop , just describing it , and your poem ends up with an existentialist account of your experience . |
| 26 | If you are writing about a twentieth-century author and you want ideas about the author or what to say about her or him , you can use the massive reference work published by Gale , Contemporary Authors ( which lists biographical and bibliographical information , together with other relevant comments ) and Contemporary Literary Criticism , which is described as " excerpts from criticism of the works of today 's novelists , poets , playwrights and other creative writers " . |
| 27 | I am writing about a monstrous ordinariness . |
| 28 | There is normally more than one way of writing about a particular historical subject or period . |
| 29 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 30 | Writing about the future development of education following abolition of the Schools Council , which had had curriculum development and examination monitoring functions and which had managed to stem temporarily the growth of DES curricular involvement , Plaskow commented that without the achievement of consensus within a workable framework , there would be central direction , with ‘ prescription through authority ’ . |