Example sentences of "[v-ing] about the [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , sorry , it was just something I heard Dad and Guy laughing about the other day . |
| 9 | Have they not done similar such publications knocking about the Green Party like catalogues for |
| 10 | ‘ Happened to me once , ’ said the man sitting next to her , the one who had been so understanding about the malfunctioning photocopier . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The research should contribute to understanding about the relative roles played by material circumstances and political mobilisation in the shaping of attitudes to welfare . |
| 13 | Well I see him walking about the other day ! |
| 14 | ‘ Me ! ’ cries Howard , walking about the upper roof garden of his converted dungeon . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was remembering Alison , Alison wandering about the flat naked , singing , like a child . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | Perhaps then , and in a way which recalls Freud , Carson and Gide are also writing about the strange impossibility of desire ? |
| 21 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
| 22 | Writing about the earliest Ottoman historical text , Inalcik states : It is to be observed that the first compilation originated in the period of struggle for the existence of the Ottoman state alter the fateful defeat in 1402 . |
| 23 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 24 | Writing about the immediate aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution , the Kiev-born writer Mikhail Bulgakov recalled : ‘ I can say only one thing for the moment — according to the calculations of the Kievans they had 18 changes of power . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps not , but then I 'm not writing about the ancient world . |
| 26 | Despite all this , and more that any fully researched biography of Karajan would reveal , it is a curious fact that writers of influence continue to play out their own strange fantasies when writing about the fictional Herbert von Karajan , a kind of latter-day Frankenstein 's monster of their own contriving . |
| 27 | In the Morning Star , a newspaper not given to writing about the rich and over-privileged , Stewart Lane wrote |
| 28 | Joey plans to return to school and dreams of writing about the wild scenes he witnessed at Seth 's house — ‘ La Traviata in New Orleans , man , ’ he says . |
| 29 | As Sir Moses Finley has pointed out , Thucydides , in writing about the Peloponnesian war ( History of the Peloponnesian War , ii . |
| 30 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |