Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] about [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing remotely sensible or well-balanced about the turmoil of emotions his touch was arousing , Luce thought distractedly . |
| 2 | At the same time , we have seen , they stressed that meaning was not a purely subjective phenomenon ; as Wimsatt put it ( 1958 : 10 and 24 ) one can distinguish between what is public and what is private or idiosyncratic about a poem , or between its meaning , which is an objective fact about it , and its ‘ import ’ , the reader 's subjective response . |
| 3 | But the majority were either dissatisfied or upset about a number of aspects of the way they had been treated during the assessment process . |
| 4 | There was nothing humorous or well-meaning about the smile . |
| 5 | Publication of an internal inquiry was also suppressed by the government ; one board member of the Atomic Energy Authority , which ran Windscale , had warned that it would ‘ inevitably provide ammunition for all those who had doubts of one kind or another about the development and the future of nuclear power ’ . |
| 6 | Some further criterion of selection is required , which in practice must mean the analyst 's own preconceptions , or his overall impression , as to what is important or interesting about the text he is dealing with . |
| 7 | ‘ There is nothing jolly or medieval about the Daurog . |
| 8 | So there seems to be nothing special or unique about the way hypnosis aids the memory of witnesses , if it actually does . |
| 9 | The scare quotes sound the alarm , and so alert readers to the idea that something is deficient or inappropriate about the word being used . |
| 10 | Furthermore , even with this sample we have noted that many were either pressured to present for help or ambivalent about the helping regimes . |
| 11 | He was quite astonishingly good-looking , she decided , though there was nothing tame or soft about the beauty he possessed . |
| 12 | Not that there was anything delicate or vulnerable about the Alice Liddell . |
| 13 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 14 | This is liable to be a month when you will feel under pressure , off-colour or uneasy about the future . |
| 15 | Quli Khan is clearly not sure whether he should be disapproving or excited about the orgy busily going on all around him : |
| 16 | Anyone who comes to that debate mithering about standing up instead of sitting down or worried about the fate of Aldershot Football Club should be excluded on the grounds that he has not yet understood the difference between the future and tomorrow . |
| 17 | Elite theorists are either optimistic or pessimistic about the scope for change , depending on whether they see elite structures as permeable or impervious to modification or decay . |
| 18 | Where uncertain about a title ( particularly those in unfamiliar subject fields ) she/he will need to consult selective and evaluative bibliographies for an authoritative opinion before making a final decision . |
| 19 | Information is given where necessary about the meaning of the phonetic symbols . |
| 20 | In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools . |
| 21 | Chatting to him about the service ( on February 16 , two days after the Valentines ' martyrdom ) it was clear he might take the opportunity to make a point or two about the state of modern human relationships as not touched on in your average Valentine 's card . |
| 22 | A word or two about the company might therefore be of some interest . |
| 23 | We ought perhaps , however , to add a remark or two about the cornet , as the student may come across scores into which that instrument has found its way ( e.g. Bizet 's Carmen , Stravinsky 's Petrushka , Vaughan Williams 's ‘ London ’ Symphony , Elgar 's Cockaigne Overture ) . |
| 24 | Having emigrated from Germany with most of her school some five years earlier , she and her team of staff and older children knew a thing or two about the traumas of young people settling in a strange country . |
| 25 | ‘ I could tell you a thing or two about the Countess of Warwick and letters from King Teddy . |
| 26 | It assumes , firstly , that there is something unique or special about the family in such a society , and , secondly , that this uniqueness is in some way associated with an easily recognizable phenomenon called ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 27 | The crew were more than complimentary about the way Kylie has played the young siren . |
| 28 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 29 | Much wordy delving into the super-minutiae of fifteenth century iconography , particularly obsessive although informative about the Circumcision , sometimes taking several pages to reach an obvious conclusion , occasionally illuminating , often maddeningly obfuscating . |
| 30 | The AS/400 is by a long way IBM Corp 's most successful current product line yet Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc , generally regarded as the largest player in the AS/400 applications market , seems to be less than confident about the future of the line . |