Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 3 | You want to talk about Standlake as well ? |
| 4 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 5 | No less devoted was Joyce , who was anxious to talk about Eliot as about the Enemy . |
| 6 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 7 | It hardly suits disabled children who have to learn about life as they experience it and can not recover something that they never possessed . |
| 8 | The basic requirement of the approach is to think about concepts as empirical variables which can be measured through indices . |
| 9 | Usually , I never feel I have to complain about competitions as they 're always judged fairly by Steve ‘ Fishnet Tights ? ’ |
| 10 | Gary again started to pray about YWAM as he recognised that he had lost something — perhaps his original vision was wrong . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone was beginning to ask about women as wage-earners when I left . |
| 12 | Well anyhow the had something to say about memory as well erm which is quite interesting . |
| 13 | There is a perfectly respectable case to be made for Irish republicanism , and one which , as it happens , has some penetrating things to say about democracy as it has operated in Northern Ireland . |