Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is not merely marine deposits that are so incredibly persistent about the earth 's surface . |
| 2 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 3 | ‘ Elek is a very Persuasive and charming Central European — or is he Hungarian ? — and easy to work with , ’ Minton told her , ‘ except he 's rather evasive about the money . ’ |
| 4 | The manufacturer delegates to the agent the task of setting final price ( usually ) , output , pre-sale services , and so on , but is rather careful about the construction of the award schedule . |
| 5 | What is perhaps most interesting about the process is the nature of the German objections : the assumption which Bonn/Frankfurt seems to make that somehow its institutions must be better than those of the EC or its rivals . |
| 6 | There is something a little distasteful about the head of the biggest international refugee organisation preferring to travel first class to solve the problems of the worlds dispossessed . |
| 7 | It 's more interesting for the children than being asked " Can you remember what we did least week ? " , it makes them immediately active , it reminds them what they were doing and can be very informative for the teacher , who can see clearly what the children are finding most engaging about the work . |
| 8 | I was trying to ask what was so specific about the period of 16 months . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the pride of the Russian people , which must be respected as we seek to help them . |
| 10 | While acknowledging the murky depths of the recession in Scotland , he asked his audience of publicans and drink suppliers : ‘ Why are all you guys so glum-faced about the state of the economy ? |
| 11 | Wesker might be accused of being somewhat subjective about the play , a charge that may be repeated as the producer of his own work . |
| 12 | He had been somewhat apprehensive about the encounter in view of the way their last meeting had ended , but fortunately she seemed to have put her irritation behind her . |
| 13 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 14 | Such is the loving care which has gone into past history , it seems a pity that the authors are so hesitant about the future . |
| 15 | Oh , we 'd felt like this for years but we would n't acknowledge it , and then we started meeting casually and standing talking for ages , but it was only when I met him and he was so upset about the baby and — and other things . |
| 16 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 17 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 18 | Lying close by his side in the carved and canopied bed , her head on his chest , she whispered , ‘ I 'm so sorry about the ring . |
| 19 | So much sociological theory seems to be about a world entirely in the realm of the head , or the mind , and so little about a world of bodily states of feeling and action . |
| 20 | ‘ But see , I 've talked enough already , and you still know so little about the scheme itself . |
| 21 | AS I HAVE not attended a Booksellers Association conference since Eastbourne 1987 , I was surprised by the fact that the 1993 conference was somewhat inward-looking and said so little about the consumer . |
| 22 | He knew so little about the serf question that at first he thought it involved no more than granting the peasants their personal freedom . |
| 23 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 24 | A friend asked the executive what he found so absorbing about the man 's performance . |
| 25 | Maxim had n't been entirely wrong about the Fight Game . |
| 26 | I would n't be surprised if Ethel is n't entirely wrong about the cause of death and the poor lady did it herself . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What 's so funny about a row of gigot chops ? ’ he asked the two laughing girls outside his window . |
| 28 | ( I am not entirely clear about the wording of the sentence which I have emphasised , but I think the sense is that the accused can be convicted of obtaining by deception , whether the offence has taken the form of larceny by a trick or obtaining by false pretences . ) |
| 29 | They also argued that the normalization of such images by SM groups acclimatized people to brutality and made them less percipient about the advent of ‘ real fascism ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing constitutionally improper about a minister not having a seat in either House of Parliament , ’ says Lord Blake , the historian . |