Example sentences of "[to-vb] about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 2 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 3 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 4 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 5 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
| 6 | Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda . |
| 7 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |
| 8 | I 'm just up to see about this operation . |
| 9 | I got a bloke to see about some business . ’ |
| 10 | But this is the crew and the picture that flew to Colesfield on the tenth of October of forty three and we had nothing out of the ordinary to report about that mission and that was the Gdynia Mission the day before , it certainly stands out on our minds because of the length of it and then of course the next one on the fourteenth of October to Schweinfurt which changed our lives . |
| 11 | Never carry more than one-third of your body weight , and aim to carry about one quarter of it . |
| 12 | The central fact to acknowledge about any sort of storage is that there is rarely enough of it , and this is certainly true in the kitchen . |
| 13 | But by coming clean and staying clean , North Korea could look forward to much in return : the right to poke about military installations in South Korea , a better relationship with America , more outside help and investment for its decrepit economy . |
| 14 | No , because the personal strategies which allow teachers to enthuse about one activity , put up with another and resent but simply get on with yet another can indeed be taken into account by heads . |
| 15 | He proceeded to Cawsand and reported , ‘ Here was the scene of much confusion in the late war , when the French fleet was daily seen to float about this bay meditating destruction to the docks at Plymouth ’ . |
| 16 | The Committee was not laying down patterns of teacher education to be followed , but was contributing , at a time of considerable difficulty and change in the system , to debate about future directions . |
| 17 | These guides are not absolutely essential ( the outline on nutrition in Chapter 4 tells you all you really need to know about healthy eating ) , but they can be very interesting ; the better ones give information about foods under specific brand names . |
| 18 | It includes everything you need to know about healthy eating , sport and exercise , along with tips on looking good and relaxation . |
| 19 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 20 | Do you want to know about occasional days or you you 're presumably concerned with with full periods . |
| 21 | All you will ever need to know about each variety is there : history ; scientific properties ; handling advice ; and translations of the fruit 's name into French . |
| 22 | They may think that they are realistically aware of what they are letting themselves in for and what they need to know about each other 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 23 | Interdisciplinary relationships are being defined in an area where team work is essential to work together quickly and safely — interpreters , ambulancemen , policemen , doctors and nurses have to know about each other 's roles and responsibilities before the accident . |
| 24 | She and her partner , woman or man , need to know about dental dams . |
| 25 | But , since there is really no limit to what it might be desirable to know about such matters , the sensible fieldworking anthropologist will recognize his limitations of resources , time and expertise . |
| 26 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 27 | According to Martin Scorsese , who you might expect to know about such things , going to the cinema is like taking drugs . |
| 28 | Thus readers are aware that Guide supports fonts ( etc. ) in some way , but can be totally unaware of the concept of logical objects — probably a good thing because evidence from the use of word processors indicates that if they did need to know about logical objects , they would be put off . |
| 29 | We have all we want to know about that sort of thing and anyway it is not my job . |
| 30 | a book mark of the information you need to know about English A Levels . |