Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Let's think about the unsuccessful hospitals and , possibly more to the point , the unsuccessful ventures undertaken from time to time by otherwise efficient units . |
2 | Whatever advertisers and their agencies may think about the respective merits of Conservative , Labour or even Liberal Democrat administrations , general election mean a windfall of about £10m worth of business for media owners and a favoured few advertising agencies — reportedly some £8m of that spent by the Conservatives , £2m by Labour and a meagre £250,000 by the Liberal Democrats . |
3 | Translated into seats , the result of the Norris poll shows that the Tories will be unopposed in the Commons throughout the next Parliament with a working majority of 650 , though psephologists may quibble about the low sample size — 30 — which could give a margin of error of about minus 60 per cent . |
4 | ‘ I really must think about the whole question , ’ she thought , as she went up the stairs to the flat . |
5 | As there is supposed to be a degree of coalition forces air control in that region , the British and American forces must know about the aerial bombardments . |
6 | ‘ I must tell about the curious will he left . |
7 | Perhaps , though , we should worry about the overall build-up of methane . |
8 | I understand the concern that people may feel about the proposed change , but I am content that it should go thus . |
9 | WHATEVER anyone might think about the amazing Norman Lamont saga , everyone will be agreed on one point : How can lawyers run up a Pounds 23,000 bill so simply ? |
10 | Whatever the gentleman in question might feel about the Hanoverian monarchy and the Jacobite cause he could , in the circumstances , hardly refuse to take the oaths to Government and cast his vote for his friend in a subsequent election . |
11 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
12 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
13 | ‘ There was very little he could do about the horrendous injuries Cooper suffered in his two fights against Ali , but he saved him on countless other occasions with his quick , methodical work . ’ |
14 | I 'd read about the Old Bailey and that sort of thing . |
15 | I replied that if colleagues agreed with him then we could forget about the whole review . |
16 | We have a a very large brethren , er brother in the methodist ministry , and er when the mayor of Derby addressed the Methodist Conference , he said , you know , he like to come to these kind of events , and he 'd talk about the specific sort of things . |
17 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
18 | Now surely if you 're gon na intern the leaders and m might they include Gerry Addams and we we could talk about the other side , we could talk about the Loyalist er paramilitaries equally , surely there 's just another wave gon na come along because it 's a never ending assembly line of terrorists , so what 's the point ? |
19 | The scientists provided the sound base from which Harold Wilson could talk about the white heat of the technological revolution in 1963 , and be believed , rightly , because it was no gimmick , but sincerely meant , and potentially a huge success . |
20 | But all Gouzenko could say about the other Elli was that he was in ‘ department five of Military intelligence ’ and had been told this by a colleague called Lubimov , or possibly Liubimov , who had worked with him in the GRU code room in Moscow . |
21 | In St Augustine 's interpretation of Trinitarian doctrine , Hilton also found a way of showing how sinful man could learn about the incomprehensible God and return to his creator . |
22 | Though many may wonder about the destructive theory , it requires a moderate amount of mathematical training to develop the conservation laws . |
23 | ‘ That philosopher , ’ said Scarlet , who seemed to have forgotten about going home , ‘ the one I was telling you about , he used to go galloping after women all over the place when his hair and his teeth were all falling out , and he used to write about the terrific compassion he felt for the human race , and his breath was foul . |
24 | They often used to argue about the central heating . |
25 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
26 | At night , as they huddled round their fires , the people would murmur about the evil spirit who kicked holes in their kilns so that they had to buy their bricks from Dai Huang . |
27 | A short film would be shown of a man who 'd lost his memory through a cerebral stroke at the age of twenty-three , and was learning to programme his life so he could live alone , and then I would speak about the day-to-day struggle of living with someone who is in no-man 's world without reference and without time . |
28 | ( A group of judges who were all soft conventionalists would disagree about the exact content of the law because they would disagree about the content of this implicit extension . ) |
29 | There they would gather about the old cathedral and sing and dance till midnight when the bells would herald in the New Year . |
30 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |