Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [to-vb] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council of ministers agreed in June 1980 that the community should try to meet about three-quarters of electricity demand from solid fuel and nuclear power . |
| 2 | The critic may choose to write about common features in the work of the artists exhibiting ; this may lead to generalisations about the group which take little account of the individual qualities of the artists . |
| 3 | I imagine you 'll want to think about that for a little while . ’ |
| 4 | And , whatever else you might want to say about this number , you would have to admit it was simple . |
| 5 | According to Martin Scorsese , who you might expect to know about such things , going to the cinema is like taking drugs . |
| 6 | have to tell Bob whatever he might like to talk about that he turns it to the Poll Tax , the fact of the matter is that the Poll Tax is nothing to do with Oxfordshire County Council . |
| 7 | You might like to think about that before committing yourselves to this course of action . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll have to arrange about that , ’ Doctor Staples said vaguely . |
| 9 | We 'll have to see about that . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have to see about that , wo n't I ? |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll have to see about that , Celia , but it sounds a nice idea . |
| 12 | But , I 'm not sure , I 'll have to enquire about that . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll have to forget about that . ’ |
| 14 | I 'll have to think about that . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think I 'll have to think about that … . ’ |
| 16 | It is only natural that you may begin to worry about possible infertility if conception does not occur immediately . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you 'd want to know about this , sir . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd need to care about those things , and I do n't . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I just — I 'd like to talk about this job offer . ’ |
| 20 | I 'd like to talk about Scottish Homes open space maintenance charters i.e. , grass cutting etcetera . |
| 21 | I 've rung several of them , and I said ‘ well , excuse me sir , but I 'd like to talk about sexual harassment in Oxford ’ and he said ‘ that 's not my subject ’ . |
| 22 | And she did n't say no full stop , she said oh she said I 'm not sure she said , I 'd have to enquire about that . |
| 23 | Others are merely temporarily hidden , such as whether there is fire behind a building which obstructs our line of sight ; we could come to know about this by going to see . |
| 24 | I could continue to talk about this disease indefinitely but to what purpose ? |
| 25 | ‘ I bet the newspapers would like to know about this ! ’ he said . |
| 26 | One thing that ethologists would like to know about this courtship is why it takes the form that it does . |
| 27 | If he replied that he was , his new friends might address him so for the future , and he could imagine what Bigwig and Silver would have to say about that . |
| 28 | But if I felt it might be time for a change I would have to think about that as well . ’ |
| 29 | First he would have to learn about this place , learn about how things worked here before he might start with a few tentative enquiries . |
| 30 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |