Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within Oxford Polytechnic , one consequence of Modular Course evaluation activities has been to sharpen thinking about course and institutional goals . |
| 2 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 3 | The first step is to start talking about stress , not as something shameful but as an interesting , understandable and , up to a point , an inevitable accompaniment to high levels of demand and uncertainty . |
| 4 | You 'll need to start thinking about structure and ideas in a slightly different way . |
| 5 | ‘ It might be a good idea to start thinking about adoption . |
| 6 | Curiously , for someone with such interests , Glass himself does not seem to like theorising about music , disliking what he calls ‘ polemics ’ . |
| 7 | Smiling politely , Gina seated herself , seizing the chance to continue talking about art . |
| 8 | And I 'd had a car crash and it was quite a relief not to have to worry about performing . |
| 9 | It may be boring for nuclear experts to have to worry about plumbing , albeit sophisticated plumbing , but they must prove that they can get the simple bits right before Mr Lawson gives them a new reactor to play with . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I considered it my duty to get informed about politics because I had a vote . |
| 11 | Lastly , and most obviously , I know , I am going to stop lying about age . |
| 12 | You know how you said we ought to stop thinking about gravity forces — between the Earth and the Shuttle — and we ought to think of curvature instead — the Shuttle following the curve of space . ’ |