Example sentences of "about politics " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics . |
| 2 | Before Tiananmen , Britain had ducked the question by professing to believe that most Hong Kong people cared little about politics , and that those who did favoured little or no change . |
| 3 | Asked about politics intruding in the Games , Thompson said : ‘ The Games are always vulnerable . |
| 4 | But as a competitor , you do not think about politics and you just hope everyone will be there . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed , the division itself is as much about politics as economics : Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to the ERM springs from her hostility to the European Community , which she did not mention yesterday . |
| 6 | There is some corroboration for our conclusion in previous research , however : at the 1983 election Gunter , Svennevig and Wober ( 1986 , p. 119 ) found that ‘ whilst television clearly emerged from among various sources of information about politics as the major source , it seemed to be relatively less important in the decision-making process of which way to vote ’ . |
| 7 | By the end of the campaign , political interest , watching BBC-TV news , and a Labour identity made people somewhat more inclined to name defence as the Conservative Party 's main theme , however ; and those who had frequent discussions about politics developed a particularly clear perception of the Conservatives ' focus on defence issues ( Table 7.11 ) . |
| 8 | Particularly at election time , television reached out and informed sections of the electorate which were usually much less well informed about politics . |
| 9 | After an argument about politics and poetics on the verandah of the Norfolk Hotel , I would often go with Jenni to the movies . |
| 10 | She was a columnist with the Guangming Ribao ( The Enlightenment Daily ) , a ‘ quality ’ newspaper , and an editor of Donggang Jishi ( Chronicle of the East ) , a new journal about politics and literature . |
| 11 | Out goes the Chingford Skinhead — who has a tiresome tendency to bang on about politics — and in comes a writer who takes a broader swipe , Tom Utley . |
| 12 | I came back and saw that most Vietnamese workers do n't care about politics . |
| 13 | They want to get away ; they want to forget about politics ; they want to reintroduce themselves to their families . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't come to argue about politics , but about a nuisance … ’ just the slightest hesitation and a hint of a stammer . |
| 15 | However , they are not Calvinists when they come to think about politics . |
| 16 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 17 | When you talk about politics to BBC people , they immediately assume you mean BBC politics , not relations between the parties or the superpowers , but who 's going to be the next DG . |
| 18 | In the United Kingdom there is no breathing space , no fallow time when a local party can sit back and not worry about politics . |
| 19 | He talks to Douglas Kennedy about politics , cafes , cigars — and Edward Heath |
| 20 | It is now suggested that ‘ he does n't know anything about politics ’ — in effect , that he is not medically qualified for his spin-doctoring consultancy . |
| 21 | People rightly sound off about politics on television and the last two weeks have shown how sharp and articulate they are . |
| 22 | I do n't know anything about politics , ’ Agnes pouted . |
| 23 | Subsidiarity betrays certain assumptions about politics which are not part of the British tradition . |
| 24 | The family did not want to talk about politics but they asked about Mrs Zamzam 's health . |
| 25 | If I want to hear about politics , I 'll go out and vote . |
| 26 | The Smiths will never be a band locked into the mechanisms of party politics , but if The Smiths are about life then they are about politics . |
| 27 | A human being needs to be able to make himself understood not only when he is shopping or buying a railway ticket , but also when he is expressing his feelings , explaining a principle ( of morals or mechanics ) , or when he is arguing about politics . |
| 28 | It was applied to enquiries of many kinds : about family history , about sex , about politics , about religion . ) |
| 29 | What about politics ? |
| 30 | Amis has taken time to rehearse the arguments about politics hijacking literature , and in the end the novel may even surprise some readers with its air of amused tolerince : ‘ Even bad poetry had to exist , if only to heighten good poetry by contrast , to make the good poets shine out as even bette . ’ |