Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamish Deans rose to his feet early in the meeting to read a statement after being asked about the charges laid by the police . |
| 2 | One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter . |
| 3 | One difference between perceived-as appearances and presentation appearances is that whereas it does not make sense to talk of being mistaken about the former it does make sense to talk of being mistaken about the latter . |
| 4 | In spite of being informed about the widespread criticism of his speech , he confided to his aide-de-camp that " the army can do nothing against me " . |
| 5 | This is a result of being relaxed about the music . |
| 6 | I 'll go along and be Well actually I 'll get him to do that and instead of being bored about the for forty five minutes or whatever I |
| 7 | She added : ‘ Apart from being devastated about the death of the horse Mr Brooks , he is in good spirits . ’ |
| 8 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 9 | ( There is a lot to be said about the role of other persons too , but I am leaving that out for the time being . ) |
| 10 | After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures on Victorian women . |
| 11 | It is these two rituals which will be the main focus of this essay , but before turning to their specific analysis a few more words need to be said about the general blood context and the male-female hierarchy at work within it . |
| 12 | Perhaps something also needs to be said about the conditions of publication . |
| 13 | But there is something more to be said about the focusing of attention on the present and oneself . |
| 14 | Either it might see what could be done within the area which Kant had left to it ; or it might ask whether there might not after all be rather more to be said about the way in which genuine knowledge of God is made possible . |
| 15 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 16 | There is nothing much more to be said about the siege of Krishnapur . |
| 17 | There is only one other thing to be said about the hedgerows of parliamentary enclosure , and that is when precisely they were made . |
| 18 | A little more needs to be said about the adjectives ‘ bold ’ and ‘ novel ’ as applied to hypotheses and predictions respectively . |
| 19 | For this reason alone , something has to be said about the predominance of the female nude in European art from the mid-19th century . |
| 20 | If it were possible to compile a complete list of the basic propositions needed to say everything that essentially needs to be said about the world , existential propositions would not be among them . |
| 21 | Thus the tendency is to concentrate an analysis of the concept of existence or that of truth around the use of predicates such as " exists ( exist ) " and " true " , and their cognates ; the idea being that if it can be shown that such predicates can be paraphrased out of the relevant contexts by employing a different type of idiom , then there is little that remains to be said about the concepts . |
| 22 | However , to assert that there is a very great deal remaining to be said about the mutual effects of semantics and syntax may seem a bold claim , perhaps even a surprising one , given the number of those who have worked on both areas and the many publications with titles suggesting that the two have been linked inside their covers . |
| 23 | Dr Stjernsward said children had to be taught about the need to eat more fresh green vegetables and fibre . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm supposed to be writing about the horses , ’ she pointed out firmly . |
| 25 | The merits of the plaintiff 's objections to the means of valuation do not appear from the report , and did not need to , because this was a striking-out application under RSC Ord 18 , r19 , which allows no evidence to be heard about the case that the plaintiff wished to make . |
| 26 | okay ? and do need to be reassured about the car . |
| 27 | Now newspapers are calling for the truth to be revealed about the numbers killed . |
| 28 | There are also questions to be raised about the supposed disadvantages of excessive dependence on bank loans which relate to their classification as external sources . |
| 29 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 30 | There is a good , critical book to be written about the limits and excesses of journalistic campaigning . |