Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] about [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So sorry to hear about Win Morgan I was , fine woman , your mam . ’ |
| 2 | There 'd be so much to learn about fabric , about draping … |
| 3 | Second , it gives our staff excellent experience to go abroad and broaden their horizons … people are less likely to complain about working conditions here when they 've seen with their own eyes what conditions are like abroad . |
| 4 | So in effect there are kind of like negative motivating factors which is basically all to do about escape where you do n't care where you go as long as you get away from here . |
| 5 | It is still so difficult to talk about rape , or having been raped . |
| 6 | Candid recording , for instance , is a troublesome issue for sociolinguists ; but I have received the impression that medical researchers are generally less inclined to worry about audio-recording without the speaker 's knowledge or permission , provided anonymity is maintained . |
| 7 | it is usually easier to talk about language , than to write about it ; |
| 8 | ‘ THEY 'RE MORE LIKELY TO LIE ABOUT DRINK HABITS ’ |
| 9 | you know more likely to worry about work , more likely to feel that they 're , they 're not quite coping , more likely to feel erm you know that , that somehow everybody else is getting on with it and , and , and , and they ca n't , I mean that 's just , you know , going from what people have told me so |
| 10 | The Opposition are always quick to speak about unemployment . |
| 11 | It is technically incorrect to talk about bat " radar " , since they do not use radio waves . |
| 12 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 13 | We seem increasingly able to talk about sex , but wholly unable to talk about our own ageing and our feelings about it . |
| 14 | It would be perverse to find fault with the elevation of Aids awareness to the status of a rock cause , and particularly silly to fret about performance infelicities ( nobody really looks to David Bowie for enlightenment , do they ? ) providing the message gets across and the money comes in . |
| 15 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 16 | ‘ I would hope at the very least the council will review it after three months and consult the disabled , town centre traders and shopkeepers , otherwise we will end up with ghost streets closed off to those least able to move about town . ’ |
| 17 | The supper had been too good , the weather was too pleasant and the company too friendly to worry about newspaper stories . |
| 18 | But Iain , who worked briefly as an architect , says he 's too old to worry about pop fame . |
| 19 | There are those who 'd say it 's still too early to think about Christmas . |
| 20 | It is all very well to talk about love , but it depends what you mean by it , for love is one of the most devalued terms and concepts in our language . |
| 21 | ‘ When we were together we were far too happy to worry about issue . |
| 22 | In any case , Lorraine was far too preoccupied to think about romance . |
| 23 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |