Example sentences of "[be] write about the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles .
2 Harlequins ... 14 Swansea … .. 21 DO NOT believe everything that has been written about the parlous state of Anglo-Welsh matches now that the English clubs are diverted by the league .
3 Much has been written about the ritual practices , accoutrements , and spiritual calling of the shaman , who functioned as priest , soothsayer and healer .
4 It can be argued that no truly great novel has yet been written about the second world war .
5 Much has been written about the technological challenge of North Sea oil , said to be second only to the American space programme in scale .
6 Much has been written about the pure theory of public choice but , in spite of a few pioneering works ( the best known being Downs , An Economic Theory of Democracy and Olson , The Logic of Collective Action ) there have been few recent applications in political science .
7 Those opening words from Marx 's Capital could have been written about the long postwar boom , the most striking feature of which was a quite breathtaking growth in production .
8 Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire .
9 So much has already been written about the operational side of the industry that the public tend to take for granted the workforce whose expertise makes it all possible . ’
10 Much has been written about the pioneering spirit of the men and women who left their homelands in times of primitive travel facilities and poor communications , to settle on virgin land of which they had little or no knowledge .
11 Since a whole book could be written about the professional work of each of these innovators , there is a danger that in the process of selection I shall distort or over-simplify .
12 An ode should be written about the innumerable helpers , seen and unseen , but I have decided to highlight the debt we owe to the teaching profession .
13 For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines .
14 However , I can no longer read some of the rubbish that is being written about the current English team and still stay silent .
15 Page description languages are currently a hot topic with much being written about the relative strengths and weaknesses of the various offerings .
16 Men still do this — they talk of men 's struggles , movements and characteristics as if they were writing about the whole class .
17 And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years .
18 It is true that much was written about the moral upbringing of children during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but this topic was itself clearly linked with the expectation of death , rather than with the hope of a balanced and integrated life .
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