Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [adj] about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been nothing solitary about Ludovico 's life . |
| 2 | he supposedly , he , two short planks does not describe this boy , even Miss hates him that was it , she , we were having this discussion right in education , she goes , are you cynical about education Terry , he goes , no , he goes , oh she goes why ? |
| 3 | Now , well you see , she o , we was having this discussion about education and she goes , are you cynical about education Terry ? |
| 4 | ‘ Are you concerned about status ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ First , are we wrong about Andrus being behind it all on the Copt side ? ’ |
| 6 | But there can be nothing irrational about preferences which are reflectively consistent , so that the agent who pursued all of them would have no regrets . |
| 7 | Only later did Oliver Michaels come back with the sobering news that the hotel was strangely full of policemen , that there was no breakfast to be had save for coffee and muffins , without a trek to the Albion Hotel , and moreover there was thought to be something odd about Sir Thomas 's death which no one would specify . |
| 8 | But there does appear to be something distinctive about language . |
| 9 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 10 | When recently I asked an enthusiastic practitioner to test the technique in maths , although they were themselves enthusiastic about language , I received confirmation of insecurity , of a self-confessed distraction from the task of teaching in favour of essentially a technician-type reliance on the scheme , and a domination of the teacher by the process of recording progress . |
| 11 | There 's nothing new about UKJ . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's nothing immoral about relaxation . ’ |
| 13 | ' ’ My poor girl , there 's nothing sacred about politics . ’ |
| 14 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 15 | An odd situation , do n't quite know why , there are nu numerous odd situations in here er in income tax , there 's nothing fair about income tax at all . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's nothing glamorous about war , ’ he 'd tell the boys years later when he found them watching yet another Great American War Movie on the TV . |
| 17 | A ‘ Mills and Boon Romance ’ is defined in editorial terms more by virtue of what it is not , than by its own narrative conventions , which are unstated ; ‘ we reject anything that is obviously not a romance ’ , the PR office states , but when pressed on what constitutes ‘ romance ’ , their response is ‘ no murder , blood , guts or gore , and nothing pornographic either ; there 's nothing romantic about pornography ’ . |
| 18 | Invite the audience to listen to your dilemma , and keep the pace quick , for there is nothing solemn about Berowne . |
| 19 | There is nothing penal about Augusta 's design — there is no thick rough off the edge of the fairways or around the fringes of the greens , the bunkering is minimal , the fairways generous , and although there is a fair sprinkling of water hazards , it is certainly no more than the players come across practically every week on the Tour . |
| 20 | There is nothing surprising about antibiosis . |
| 21 | Buying promise has a certain value but there is nothing exclusive about promise . |
| 22 | Of course capitalism is essentially about selling goods , so there is nothing new about consumerism per se . |
| 23 | But there is nothing new about takeovers , as such . |
| 24 | There is nothing new about non-executives . |
| 25 | He cheerfully admits that there is nothing new about re-engineering . |
| 26 | There is nothing authoritative about Greek , but there is about the New Testament which was written in Greek . |
| 27 | There is nothing flawed about man 's nature . |
| 28 | Of course , without her cosmetics there is nothing alarming about Dorinda . |
| 29 | But even in these drawings , which have the character of a study or demonstration , there is nothing theoretical about Picasso 's approach . |
| 30 | ‘ There is nothing romantic about limps , dear girl . |