Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tamar laughed with her and realised that she felt less depressed about the forthcoming confinement after this little spell of humour . |
| 2 | He is entirely right about the British contribution to Europe , both in the long term and in the past few years when much of the present shape of the Community has arisen from initiatives by this country . |
| 3 | And secondly I am so sorry about the terrible thing that happened yesterday morning . |
| 4 | That may have been true until the current recession , but the hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong about the present circumstances . |
| 5 | This time the malais were especially careful about the New Zealander and the American . |
| 6 | I probably did n't help my cause by being so self-conscious about the whole exercise that I decided to station myself behind a bush . |
| 7 | I mean she 's still you know less bothered about the older ones but it 's very sort of because of the school work and Saturday jobs and |
| 8 | I do n't know why I feel so possessive about the damned things . |
| 9 | Laura grew somewhat rosy about the perfect cheekbones . |
| 10 | There was nothing necessarily democratic about the responsible party system . |
| 11 | The Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have been somewhat vague about the precise nature of the chemical reaction which produced such a bountiful supply of plant nutrients , and they were also reticent about the amount and composition of the nutrients released . |
| 12 | To date , the social representation theorists have tended to be somewhat vague about the social conditions which foster the development of social representations , as understood in the particular sense . |
| 13 | It 's just being completely , brutally honest about the nasty side of splitting up with someone . ’ |
| 14 | Why is it that there is so little about the Holy Spirit in the Gospels ? |
| 15 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 16 | Tom 's words struck me as unthinking and insensitive ; Terry was so obviously unhappy about the whole thing . |
| 17 | I am not so sure about the Japanese honeymoon couples . |
| 18 | PS I would n't be so sure about the away win this week-end … |
| 19 | Not so sure about the other two tracks but ‘ Submarine Song ’ is well produced , well played and leaves a lasting impression . |
| 20 | Not so sure about the other two tracks but ‘ Submarine Song ’ is well produced , well played and leaves a lasting impression . |
| 21 | An hour later she was n't so sure about the latter . |
| 22 | Pottz was confident of taking the world title , but less sure about the Triple Crown . |
| 23 | That 's what 's so stupid about the whole magic thing , you know . |
| 24 | Other analysts , however , are less confident about the economic outlook and reckon the country 's growth rate will fall to between 2 and 3 per cent . |
| 25 | Milan Tomsa , the student strike leader at the Prague Film School , is not at the moment much concerned about the future prospects of the Czech cinema . |
| 26 | An employee moving abroad is obviously concerned about the safe handling of personal possessions . |
| 27 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 28 | That is why I am so concerned about the hostile attitude to inward investment taken by the Trades Union Congress and the failure of the Opposition to repudiate the TUC view . |
| 29 | The Institute is so concerned about the smaller firms that are giving up training chartered accountant students that it has set up two working parties to explore ways to make the training system more attractive . |
| 30 | I was still so angry about the horrid state of things … |