Example sentences of "[verb] about the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had now formed a plan to write about the falsely sunny period before the Great War . |
| 2 | HCI cares about the very young too . |
| 3 | Helen is not interested in making lists about her life , preferring to talk about the more immediate experiences of her recent holiday and birthday . |
| 4 | What can be said about the most recent generation of US television narrative subgenres is that they display on the screen a much higher awareness of the conventions they are operating than is the general rule on UK television , and they are therefore much more inclined towards an ironic or parodic re-scoring of generic regimes . |
| 5 | Lying about my family 's social status came easily enough , but there was nothing I could do about the more visible signs of poverty . |
| 6 | The important point for our purposes is that until some assumption is made about the generally expected price level we can not rule out any response of the economy to the upward shift in the aggregate demand curve . |
| 7 | As a painter , I have become somewhat dismayed about the potentially bleak future of acrylics . |
| 8 | Henry thought this was depressingly typical of the way in which people talked about the recently deceased . |
| 9 | Then Angalo said , ‘ That sounds about the most half-baked — ’ |
| 10 | But uncomfortable questions must also be raised about the less traditional and disciplinarian approaches to education , to family , and to other social institutions which Left and liberal opinion have championed . |
| 11 | It is this second concept which has caused all the trouble , certainly ( for example ) in view of what we now know about the very different world of early Precambrian times . |
| 12 | Meanwhile disturbing evidence had begun to accumulate about the relatively poor performance of children of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin in schools ( see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 for a useful review ) . |
| 13 | He 'd no patience with women putting on airs and moaning about the most natural thing in the world . |
| 14 | His mental imagery , on the other hand , reflected influences from wider sources and to understand this we need to examine what is known about the relatively young pope — he was 37 or 38 — elected to the chair of St Peter in January 1198 , whose reign later generations came to see as " the apogee of the medieval papacy " . |
| 15 | However , it is fair to claim that the common response to individual instances of difficulty in the classroom is the antithesis of what seems to be known about the more effective school . |
| 16 | Without exception they had liked the role they played within the classroom and a remark by Joanne sums up how they felt about the more pupil-centred approach : |
| 17 | He became a cult figure in Glasgow , stalking the streets in leather pork-pie hats , wandering into darkened pubs wearing shades , and setting up an unofficial headquarters in the lounge of the St Enoch 's Hotel where he could survey the talent and go about the more important business of being Baxter . |
| 18 | In the final analysis , the Swann Report not only put aside what it had already acknowledged about the relatively poor performance of students of Bangladesh I origin , but ignored evidence that students of Mirpuri Pakistani origin were also under performing , while students of East African Asian origin seemed to be achieving exceptionally well . |
| 19 | The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given . |
| 20 | I spoke about the much wider use of timetable motions . |
| 21 | ‘ We spoke about the very good relationships between our Churches in Britain and I spoke about our foundation under John Wesley , with the links between personal piety and the search for righteousness in social justice We spoke about these things linking our two Churches together at quite a deep level . |
| 22 | In about late July , with the scion foliage strong and healthy and the rootstock main stem still green with no sign of ageing , we are ready to think about the most back-breaking job in gardening ! |
| 23 | The company loyalty bargain which exchanges labour cooperation for job security also has a wider significance if we think about the amazingly low national unemployment figures recorded by the Ministry of Labour . |
| 24 | People can go on communicating for hours on end , but if they are not talking about the really important issue , the time is not well spent . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm talking about the very poor , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The English church was thus an essentially Erastian church , and by 1500 the English crown had few reasons to complain about the otherwise privileged position that it had acquired within the realm . |
| 27 | I WISH to complain about the dangerously increasing practice by many uncaring motorists to park their cars directly in front of bus stops . |
| 28 | Three years later Dr H. J. Hewitt published his influential book , The organization of war under Edward III , 1338–62 , in which , rather than describe activity of a narrow , military kind , he wrote about the relatively unglamorous background and preparation needed for war at that time and , indeed , ever since . |
| 29 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council concern was expressed about the apparently unauthorised and uncontrolled tipping taking place in the area known as ‘ the Cut ’ in Scorton . |
| 30 | I do n't think that among all possible measures we should immediately talk about the most extreme . ’ |