Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple , who live in the north of the city , were too embarrassed to talk about the missing nestegg . |
| 2 | Vietnam , however , maintained that internal issues should be discussed with the SOC government in Phnom Penh ; it was only willing to talk about the international aspects of the problem , and urged the USA to expand the talks to include the SOC government . |
| 3 | There is something beautifully simple and old fashioned about the whole family working and playing together on a warm afternoon beside a clean , bubbling stream . |
| 4 | I have be very interested to hear about the recent developments and most impressed at what 's taken place , but er , I would like to ask about the international work , which I understand has been reduced . |
| 5 | You can be sure that some will be heard loud and clear complaining about the long Christmas holidays being taken by other people . |
| 6 | Lord Beresford was disposed to chat about the forthcoming cricket season , but was briskly recalled to his duties . |
| 7 | Gracey 's British Indian forces eventually totalled over twenty thousand men ; and by December 1945 the French had about the same number in Vietnam . |
| 8 | My right hon. Friend is right to talk about the industrial capacity being too low to produce the recovery we need . |
| 9 | Robinson wo n't comment on House of Windsor , but he 's delighted to talk about the forthcoming £15m sponsorship of Coronation Street . |
| 10 | Yet , except for their poverty , it is not easy to generalize about the poor : their attitudes and assumptions are harder to disinter than those of the dominant and vocal élites . |
| 11 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 12 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to hear about the royal situation , but it is a personal matter , ’ she added . |
| 13 | Two lawyers are likely to differ about the best interpretation of the practices of legislation or precedent in a particular case because their general political and moral convictions differ . |
| 14 | While you will doubtless be quick to retaliate about the scrupulous judging procedure , please note that my observation was about the ‘ appropriateness ’ of the situation , particularly to outsiders . |
| 15 | There is very little to say about the new Robert Zemeckis film that has n't been said about the old one . |
| 16 | Games rooms and reading rooms are fixtures in most hostels , and noticeboards , fellow hostellers and friendly wardens supply all the information you are likely to need about the local area . |
| 17 | The need was to reconcile the ‘ ecclesiastical ’ and the ‘ congregational ’ elements , and while he insisted that ‘ Nonconformist churches must , beyond all question , be built to see and hear in ’ he had nothing good to say about the vast preaching halls , such as the Metropolitan Tabernacle , with a bit of tracery and the proportions of a barn . |
| 18 | He did nt even have anything decent to say about the Batty fiasco . |
| 19 | Doctors and nurses are sometimes too busy to worry about the finer points and a woman in labour is in no position to argue . ’ |
| 20 | I am very concerned to read about the proposed restrictions and charges , which will from 16 May onwards ban tandems , tricycles and Rann trailers altogether and will make the charges for an ordinary bicycle payable on all journeys no matter how short . |
| 21 | I am very concerned to read about the proposed restrictions and charges , which will from 16 May onwards ban tandems , tricycles and Rann trailers altogether and will make the charges for an ordinary bicycle payable on all journeys no matter how short . |
| 22 | Life is full of ups and downs , but you should enjoy it more if you are able to think about the good times and you 'll feel better able to cope when the bad times are around . |
| 23 | Big Boo , however , goes back further than most , and he 's happy to reminisce about the old days . |
| 24 | I do n't think it is possible to disagree about the high probability that a relationship exists , and that indeed children with higher levels of lead in the blood tend to be less intelligent ( and possibly more hyperactive ) than children with lower blood lead levels , although the differences are quite small , amounting to some 3 or 4 points of IQ . |
| 25 | It is difficult to know about the social morality of the peasantry in the early part of the Tokugawa period , but what is clear is that by the 1850s a relatively homogeneous set of social norms prevailed throughout the peasant class , and that their value system was strongly influenced by the agrarian experience . |
| 26 | For a supposedly religious ceremony there is a very secular feel about the whole affair . |
| 27 | This is not to suggest that each of the sample antiracist statements does not have something pertinent to say about the particular instance of racism which it privileges as paradigmatic . |
| 28 | It is very difficult to generalize about the American police because , with the exception of the nationally organized FBI , there are 40,000 police departments at state , county and municipal levels . |
| 29 | In order to understand how infection is spread , it is necessary to know about the various modes of transmission . |
| 30 | and I considered whether it would be wise to write about the early history , but as my purpose is only to demonstrate . |