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 | A DS19 should cost about the same , but unless you 're buying for a museum , avoid the early models . |
7 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
8 | Your call should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
9 | Calls should cost about the same as a first-class stamp . |
10 | This is a guide only and each club in the set should have about the same swingweight . |
11 | ‘ I must tell about the curious will he left . |
12 | Perhaps , though , we should worry about the overall build-up of methane . |
13 | I understand the concern that people may feel about the proposed change , but I am content that it should go thus . |
14 | 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 ? |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Oh well we 'll forget about the six to start with it takes too long . |
17 | minus a million , we 'll forget about the ten , just think of the minus a million . |
18 | And I 'll write about the strange talk I had with the Nielsen woman . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Miss Hatherby explained in her dry , sibilant voice , that they were sent from Paris so that London ladies could know about the latest French fashions and have them copied . |
21 | There was nothing United could do about the second ; a great piece of football skill from Alan McLoughlin . |
22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
23 | I 'd read about the Old Bailey and that sort of thing . |
24 | I replied that if colleagues agreed with him then we could forget about the whole review . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 ? |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |